Media Theorist - Laura Mulvey

Whilst considering our storyline and the message we are trying to portray through our trailer, it reminded me of a key media theorist - Laura Mulvey. The following slide explores her ideas:

I feel that, in a way, our trailer does comply with this theory, in the respect that it is displaying violence against women and therefore placing women in a subordinate position. This may be viewed as displaying a sexist viewpoint, however, we have been careful to ensure that we display the violence from both the female and male perspective to ensure our trailer in not entirely portrayed 'at a male angle'.For example, we have used frequent shots of our lead female character on her own as well as our lead male character.
Furthermore, we have been mindful not to over sexualize the female characters in our trailer (e.g- through displaying sexual scenes) as this may cause viewers to take the message of domestic violence less seriously and may legitimate the use of women as 'sexual objects' in media text.

Making our final trailer a teaser trailer

We decided to make our final trailer a teaser trailer not a theatrical trailer. This is mainly due to the fact that our trailer lacked speech and could tell the story without the need for it. Therefore, we felt that choosing to do a teaser trailer gave us more opportunity to entice the audience by using our best shots and simple piano music to leave them intrigued and wanting to know more.

Final Trailer

This is our final teaser trailer, 'White Ribbon'. 

Final website

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Final Poster

We finalised our decision on using this image for our poster. We decided to use a black and white colour scheme as it reflects the mood of the trailer and may be more eye catching to our audience as it is different to the typical conventional colour scheme of many film posters. The black and white also creates focus on the main elements of the picture and their outline, (James, the building and the bird).

Change of music

Originally, we chose Bastilles' Oblivion track for our trailer. We were aware this is copyright limited and so we searched Sound cloud for a copyright free cover of the track. However, there were still copyright issues with using a cover version of the track. Therefore we decided that to comply with copyright laws as required, we needed to find an instrumental piano track of a different composition, free of copyright. After we located one that we felt complemented our trailer best, we replaced the track with this new piece.

Outtakes

This is a brief video comprised of outtakes that we decided not to include in our final teaser trailer. The reasons we decided not to include them vary from them not being totally relevant to the quality of the acting involved.