2. Gimme shelter - Drama
Conventions:
-Her mom is a drug addict and can not take care of
her daughter.
-she runs away and finds her other parent that has
never been there for her
-the struggles to fit in.
-fins a new family that makes her happy that is not
her blood family but the new close friends that make
her feel like a better person.
Inspirations:
-it relates to reality and how some people live in
todays society. Past situations
-the context of the story is very interesting and
touching.
-the editing of the movie looks simple but yet
affective.
It’s a dramatic movie which I find very interesting.
3. How I live now
Conventions:
- She’s this very rebellious girl that does whatever
she feels like and says whatever she feels like.
- She falls in love and becomes someone different.
- They become split up because of the and she
promises to come back to the house no matter
how long it takes. (a lovers promise)
Inspirations:
- it’s a very unique dramatic romance.
- Its very predictable but yet interesting.
- the story of war and love is cliché but the way
the story is set up is interesting.
4. Solo
Conventions:
-the girl in the woods all by herself something bad
is bound to happen.
- The hunter freaks her out and scares her with
stalking pictures and a doll from her childhood.
- Its set in the woods where most bad things
happen especially because she is a teenager.
Inspirations:
- The use of the props to set the storyline
properly (from her childhood and pictures of her
in her everyday events).
- Making her outcast right at the beginning of the
movie.
- Some of the scenes only have the music on top
without the Foleys of what the character is
doing.
5. Lucy
Conventions:
-The innocent female finds her inner strength to fit
back and get her revenge on things.
-she is first scared about the name things she can
do but then accepts her power and uses it to get
revenge on the ones who made her like that.
- It all happened because of a party (vulnerable
mind).
Inspiration:
- With every shot gun the scene changes.
- They use scientific facts and mix both the
action movie and the scientific part together. So
she's not just seeking for revenge but
knowledge.
6. If I Stay
Conventions:
- She's an innocent girl that knows what she want
and doesn’t think about normal teenage life
(partying).
- She finds true love and everything changes for
her.
- She in a car accident and everything changes for
her and she really wants to get back to living her
life again but it’s impossible. She's trapped in 2
dimensions where she can see herself and
herself is living life as normal after coma.
Inspirations:
- The original idea of her being outside her own
body and not being able to re-live her life as
normal.
- The dramatic affects of the score music and the
slow motion editing really give it a sad affect to
it.
- At the end she accepts how she’s living and
turns out happy instead of feeling trapped like
she's cursed.
7. Obvious Child
Conventions:
- That she is a depressed woman that doesn’t know
where her life will go . N
- She finds someone she truly likes but feels he will
never like her back and plus she is pregnant.
- She ends up having the best time with him and he
appreciates and accepts the flaws that she
doesn’t.
Inspiration:
- The lowest part of her life starts in the begging
rather than near the middle where everything
changes.
- She's humorous throughout her crisis of being
depressed (it’s very original).
- The story is original and very entertaining it’s a
type of comedy that’s is presented in a different
way.
8. Heatstroke
Conventions:
- The father has a girlfriend that the daughter
doesn’t like.
- The daughter and the mans girlfriend do not get
along.
- The man tries to find out what was happening to
the rhino (helpful) and gets killed.
- The daughter and the girlfriend have to work
together in order to survive and they become
really close.
Inspirations:
- That the context of the movie is in a desert and
not in a city where things like this normally
happens.
- The editing pace is really face which is really
good for the climax of the trailer.
- There's a really fast editing of 1 seconds from
the film put together which looks really good
especially for a dramatic action movie.
9. Rudderless
Conventions:
- His son dies and he becomes a very depressed
sad person.
- He uses his son music in order to move forward
in life and to appreciate the life that his son has.
- He forms a band with the boy that really like the
music and they go a long way together.
Inspiration:
- The editing is delicate to fit in with the movie
trailer ( slow pace editing).
- The volume control on the score music is louder
at the credits which gives the movie the feeling it
needs.
- When the mood changes the song that the boy
wrote in the movie is played as a score music on
top of the trailer clip.
10. Beyond the lights
Conventions:
- She's a singer but is not happy with her life
because the music are not hers. Its not her words
that she is expressing.
- Her mother forces her to become a singer. It want
her choice.
- She falls in love and everything becomes better (
she falls in love with a policeman.
- He helps her get her life on track
Inspirations:
- The small footage of when she was a little girl
really emphasise how her mother picked her life
for her and didn’t let her live it on her own.
- Throughout the trailers, the song she was
singing in the beginning of the early stage of her
life plays over the rest of the trailer which is
really creative.
- the song changes to her singing the same song
but when she is old after she falls in love.
11. Horns Conventions:
- He does something extremely bad (kills a girl he
loves) and gets cursed/punished for it hence the
horns on his head.
- He is scared about being claimed by the devil
but then accepts it.
- The good turned into bad and accepts it.
Inspirations:
- The fire affect during the editing symbolising
that she is being claimed by the devil.
- The score music is very gothic like and falls in
love with the genre of the movie.
- The editing goes from slow to fast show the
rapid change.
- The props are used well to present the
character in the devilish form .
- By the end there is only score music and the
actions which really makes the trailer intense.
