Analysis of existing student trailers.

Mise-en-Scene.

The trailer starts off using a lot of the colour green in trees, fence panels and moss within the shot, this can be used as well as the obvious body language and text to connote envy and deceit, the costume used in this scene seems to be primarily black connoting evil, lies and death, and the overall location of an alleyway connotes crime and anti-social behavioral that you would associate with younger adults.

We next move on the a kitchen setting, the woman included within the shot in the stereotypical gender associated with this location, the colours of white and pale green and yellow connote a calm, and peaceful setting as well as the white being used to connote innocence and purity, although the woman's red jumper may connote incoming danger or rage,

the next scene is separated by some very powerful transitions which include key words contrasting with black and white, which may connote that in black and white this is what's happening although the trailer contains scenes which start the explain how it is not simply black and white, the next scene is an argument between two men, one is in a white shirt whilst the other is wearing black once again, this may connote that the man wearing white is good and the man in black is evil, which can be concreted by the conversation taking place. 

the final scene is in a subway, connoting already a dark dirty location and situation also uses blood to connote death before it rounds off into an old fashioned whodunit, with two males in white, smart dress and a woman shooting them, this break in stereotype may have been used to shock the audiences and raises questions that need to be answered.

Sound

Interestingly there is a lack non-diegetic sound within the trailer with is not conventional within soap opera trailers, it is just filled with diegetic background sound such as birds singing and children playing this helps ad the the verisimilitude of this soap, causing the audience to feel similarities to the characters, I believe that due to the overpowering sound and repetition for each character the foley effect is used for the gunshot at the end, which is very powerful to the audience.

Narrative

Narrative is strongly feature within this trailer, there are many different storylines within the trailer about many different subjects, this is conventional to soap operas as drama is shown between relationships with characters, although a voice over is not included at the end of the trailer which breaks stereotype as they usually are included. 

Camera Movements
A wide variety of camera movements and angles are used within this trailer, including:

• Long shot
• Two shot
• Point of View
• Over the shoulder
• Close up
• Mid shot
• Pan
• Tilt
• Zoom

These are all conventional camera movements that are used within soap opera trailers, we will be sure to include a variety of camera movements also when creating our product. 

I will be sure to use the information I have gained here when creating our product, analysing these past student created soap opera trailers will help me to know exactly what to include from these and how to elaborate in order to receive the best marks when creating our soap opera trailer.