Trailer Research - Memento Analysis

The presentation of the film is structured with two timelines, one in colour and one black and white. The film cuts between the two sequences, highlighting their different purposes. The coloured scenes are shown forward, however the events are ordered in reverse, the black and white scenes are shown as events that happened before. The constant difference in time structure keeps the audience engrossed in the film and gives them a further insight into the storyline.

There is a crime aspect to this film, and questions arising through the plot are left unresolved until the ending of the film. This helps generate suspense and intrigue for the audience throughout the film, emphasised by the scenes of action including a car chase and a fight. Despite the protagonist participating in this behaviour, sympathy is still created by his reasoning being vengeance for his murdered wife, and also his condition of losing his memory. 



Here is the trailer for the film, the structure of the film being in reverse creates more suspicion for the audience, the ending of the trailer showing the website name backwards, it shows that although the structure of the film is not shown explicitly throughout the trailer, it is hinted at with this. 

Analysis of Posters

We took different genres of film and there posters and looked at what they all seperately represented and what impression it gave of the type of film, characters and classification.

Trainspotting

Gone with the Wind

Devil wears Prada



Kidulthood

Test Shots

We created a video of our tests shots that we felt needed experimenting with before our filming date. This has enabled us to see any flaws in concepts or practical issues we will need to consider in filming. It also gave us the chance to see what ideas we have been thinking about would actually look like visually, within our trailer.

Audience Research: Plot

We sent out a survey to all of Year 11, 12 and 13 asking them what they would do if they found £100,000 in their bank account. These were the results we found:

To make our film more interesting we will challenge the ideas of  the audience. We will also do some research into how people would spend £100,000 to give us a broader idea of the realistic options of what people of a similar age to our characters would do with the money.