Our teaser trailer used a nonlinear narrative through montage and flashbacks to hint at the deteriorating state of mind of a bullying victim. Scenes of the victim being surrounded and pushed by peers implied the theme of bullying, while shots of him on social media looking at his bully's pages inferred a desire for revenge. The trailer did not show whether or how the victim gets revenge, leaving questions unanswered - an example of an enigma code used to engage audiences. By restricting details and leaving the narrative open-ended, the teaser accomplished its goal of piquing interest without fully revealing the story.

1. NARRATIVE
Charlie Hooper

2. WAS NARRATIVE USEFUL/NOT
USEFUL TO MY MEDIA WORK?
Narrative was useful when creating our teaser trailer because it
helped to create the basis of what our film would be about if it was
made into a full film. Because it was only a teaser trailer rather
than a full trailer, we did not want to give away too much about
the story line so that we would leave the audience with questions
and want to find out more about the film. By not including much
narrative we were able to achieve this restricted narrative that is
usually used in a teaser trailer.

3. PLOT, STORY AND ENIGMAS
Bordwell and Thompson describe plot and story as follows;
PLOT: the explicate presentation of the events (which is usually less than the story and may be
in a different order, e.g. the Social Network.
STORY: All the events- both those that are visually represented and those that are inferred.
They can be explicit or inferred. Explicit means articulating all the details in an
understandable and clear way which leaves no doubt as to the proposed meaning whereas
inferred is to determine the story on the basis of reasoning or evidence.
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Roland Baths came up with this definition of Enigma codes;
ENIGMA CODES: Images/sequences which control how much we know in a story, engaging and
holding the audience’s interest. They present puzzles which demand to be solved.
These codes can be minor or major, their purpose is to delay the time taken to reach the end
solution and audiences pleasurably.

4. ESSAY PLAN
Our teaser trailer had a non-linear (not in chronological order) narrative because we used
montage to show how the victim is typing his blog which appears between other scenes and also
we used flashbacks to show his deteriorating state of mind, these scenes were repeats of previous
scenes and so were not in a chronological order. It was left open because it is a teaser trailer and
so we wanted to leave the audience with questions and hold their interest in the film rather than
answer all their questions as they may not feel the need to watch the film if they knew what
would happen.
The theme of bullying is strong through out our teaser trailer as we used shots of the victim
being surrounded and physically pushed by the other teenagers. Revenge can be inferred by the
audience because of the shots of the victim browsing on the social network site; Facebook, on
his bully’s pages. This guess is backed up by evidence at the end where there is a shot of the
victim writing ‘I’ll get my revenge’ on his blog.
The trailer does not show whether he does get his revenge or how he would go about getting this
which leaves the audience with questions and anticipation that would hopefully make them want
to watch our film, this is an example of how we used enigma codes in our trailer. Because of the
young actors used throughout the trailer and its theme of bullying I think that we would entice a
young audience because they can relate to the characters and are aware of the situations they
experience.

5. CONCLUSION
I believe that we used narrative very successfully in our teaser trailer in terms
of enticing the audience by leaving the narrative restricted and open. Our
trailer briefly introduced the audience to the main character and empathised
the theme of bullying that would appear in the film without actually giving a
lot away about the story and ending of the film, the audience can only infer
that the victim gets his revenge in some way.