Carrie (2013) Trailer analysis

Plot:
Outcasted teenager Carrie white is currently in her last year of highschool however suffering from being the daily victim of bullying by Chris Hargense and her group known as the ‘it crowd’. While living with her religious yet disturbed mother Margaret, Carrie is brought up in a strict religious environment of believing that self punishment is the way of answering for sins. This act is especially strengthened when Carrie panics after experiencing her first period and is recorded on camera as a prank from Chris. With Carrie’s mother seeing this as a sin she instructs her daughter to go to her closet and pray for forgiveness however due to the emotional distress of embarrassment and confusion from school this has resulted in her telekinesis power awakening. Upon discovery Carrie learns how to control this power and tries to keep it under control however with her mom seeing this as a sign from the devil and Chris plotting a prank at prom, the power Carrie has learnt to keep under control may prove to be too difficult when in the face of hatred and sorrow.





The constant transitional fades throughout the trailer make the pace rather slow but at the same time effective in the way it climaxes at the end. With the slow paced pans, zooms and eerie digetic and non-digetic soundtracks creates a psychological insight on the religious as well as isolated themes the characters are foreshadowed to face.
The soundtrack on the other hand in the second half of the trailer after prom was announced fitted perfectly in foreshadowing the madness and corruption Carrie would soon unleash and showing what her powers are capable of.
Although the sound and visual effects played their role perfectly the suspense and mystery left which usually captures an audiences attention and wanting to see more is little to none as it feels as though everything which happens within the film has been presented. The curiosity which the audience is suppose to be left with after a trailer is quenched by everything shown so far despite carries fate and what would happen after these events.

Genre Change

Originally wanting my Trailer to be based upon a sci-fi film and containing sci-fi conventions, I realized upon researching the genre, conventions and films that have been constructed following the conventions are extremely limiting to make due to the amount of equipment and effects needed in order to express some of the key plot devices. In doing so I came to the conclusion to change my genre to thriller / horror as the previous research I did concluded that within the budget I have as well as time span it would be extremely difficult to construct an effective and believable sci - fi trailer in terms of keeping to the conventions and appealing to a sci-fi fanbase.

BBFC Ratings : AVATAR

The British board of film classification is an independent, non-govermental body which has classified cinema films since it was set up in 1912 and videos/DVDs since the video recordings act was passed in 1984. 

The BBFC, British Board of Film Classification, was set up by an independent, non governmental body in order to place age restrictions on films, DVDs, video recordings and games so that any explicit scene was not witnessed by the eyes of a younger audience, not being able to view certain events that may be disturbing at their age.. 
Originally the BBFC was founded in 1912 as a result to monitor the content of films and propaganda through world war 1 and to try and honor those who went off to fight instead of putting the name of war in a bad light. When the war was over the BBCF still continued to rate films in order to keep a strict clutch on what was view-able to certain ages. Over time however what is now classifyed as a 12 could easily be classafyed as a 15 a centory back as society slowly grows. Because of the age ratings in place film producers still try and keep some scene driven towards the over all plot while at the same time obiding by the BBFC rules in order to appeal to a wide audience such as 15 or lower, genre dependent.
For example the Horror, comedy and some sci fi's usuall tend to be a higher rating because of graphical scenes or adult themed language or humor. On the other hand animated films which may conists of fantasy or thriller can be found mostly 15 below, some thrillers depending. 


As a result of the ratings program in place it had concluded in some films having to cut whole scenes out of the film for example if something is to graphic and the prodcers wish to appeal to a younger age rating.

For example:
The BBFC's guidelines at '12A'/'12' state that 'Moderate violence is allowed but should not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood, but occasional gory moments may be permitted if justified by the context'
The sci-fi / fantasy film AVATAR under took no cuts which is usual for this genre, where as a genre such as horror or thriller may have to cut and tweak multiple scenes to get the age rating they desire. with a lower age rating the more people they can appeal to for the opening box office. On the other hand there were a few hiccups within the production as Avatar came out at an age rating of 12 where as the producers wished to have a PG film. This was because many of the battle scenes shown on screen with supposed people getting injured and even killed, while some were off screen it still made it clear upon what was happening and didn't hide it. We also see some moderate violence, including sight of arrows piercing bodies, fight sequences where characters are heavily kicked or punched, and a fight scene between a man wearing a large metal body armour suit and a fantastical creature. however through all this there are no focuses on blood or wounds which anyone has sustained and the more gruesome parts appeared off screen.