Deconstruction of A2 trailer exemplar (Narrative) - VOICEMAIL

VOICEMAIL

• The trailer opens with a phone and the calling list which has connotations to the films title of 'VOICEMAIL' and is effective at keeping a restrictive narrative and can lead the audience down a number of possible narratives.

• It then moves to close up pan shots a young (19 years old) girls pictures in someone's room. This is effective as the audience will think what has pictures of a girl have to do with a voice mail and acts a good enigma in the grand scheme of the trailer.

• The next two shots of the extreme close up of the call having ended on the phone and the close up of the lines of cocaine, credit and wedges of money both link and start to bring the first part of the trailer together and gives the audience less of a restricted narrative.
• When a call has been missed or ignored you can leave a voice mail or you will hear the voice mail of the other persons phone which in this case is the man is hearing the voice mail of the girl. This then asks the question why.

• This extreme close up of the cocaine, credit card and money adds the enigmatic feature of the trailer as a number of theories of the narrative and what we have seen on screen can be argued. 
• For example one suggestive narrative could be she is ignoring him because of his drug/crime history or because of her rejection of him he was turned to drugs as a scape goat?

• After the previous scenes it focuses on a close up of a watch that isn't on anyone's wrist. This ,again, creates enigma because time is a extremely deceiving and evocative untangable mechanism that governs our universe. 
• And from this it could symbolise time has already run out or stopped for the character at hand due to the voice mail, or that his time is running out due to the voice mail that has caused him to take a dangerous, drug ridden life. 
• Possibly even to show the voice mail has caused him to disregard and ignore all things around him including time due to the voice mail and is very enigmatic.

• Then through non diegetic dialogue of 'day 277 since Emma's passing' and the close up of a box that is labelled 'Emma' solidifies that the film is about the man's deceased lover and the voice mail of her is a way to keep her alive to him.

• After this plot revelation, it shows a knife brushing down some thing fishing mesh and is accompanied by non diegetic dialogue of 'police want to keep me here for dangerous behaviour...I say F*CK THEM!' 
• This demonstrates to the audience how her death has effected him and consequently leads the audience to want to discover what he was done to get arrested by the police. Keeping the narrative restrictive.  

• Next through fast editing shows a two shot of the main character seemingly torturing another male but the audience doesn't know why and keeps the narrative restricted but leaves them enough to want to find out why he is doing this and what ha caused him to.

• After that it moves to an over the shoulder close up of the main character in the mirror crying at himself. Along with this is the non diegetic dialogue of 'All I'm worried about now is finding Emma's killer' which reveals a little more about the films narrative and the motive of the main character for his reckless actions. 
• And now by this point the audience and pretty good, but general idea of what the films narrative is about.

• Then at the end of the trailer it finishes with scenes of a car chase with the driver trying to run over a man and then the main character smoking in a car in a calm, but disturbed manor.
•  In terms of the narrative with the audience by this point having a rough idea of what the narrative is about and these scenes are useful for creating some doubt and confusion to whether the audiences preconceptions of the films narratives were correct and will entice them to watch the film even more than before.

Evaluation

• I though this trailers mise-en-scene was very effective, especially with the torture scene.
• The narrative concept behind the trailer also worked great due to it been a believable story line.
• They used a wide variety of shots to portray the narrative they wanted, showing the group were skilled with the camera and had creativity.
• Editing was also carried out to a good standard with cross cuts, jump cuts and different paces of editing all worked well together in creating a very good trailer.