Analysis of Social Realist Trailers

Fish Tank

 I have taken inspiration from the film ‘Fish Tank’ which was directed and written by Andrea Arnold, released on 11 September 2009 and produced by BBC Films and the UK Film Council. The reason in which our trailer will be similar to Fish Tank’s is because the genre is the same, Social Realist, and because of this we will have similar props e.g. cups of tea and the string bag), hair and make-up, costume, dull lighting, actor’s performance and settings(for example in Fish Tank they filmed in Barking, London). As you can see in the print screen above the setting is exactly what we aim for in our film trailer ‘Valerie’.

There are other aspects of Fish Tank that inspires our film trailer, for example, the nominations and awards they have won we would have those sorts of nominations on our film trailer because the audience know what sort of categories they like and we want to attract the same audience as Fish Tank (e.g indie).

Also, the Fish Tank Trailer has a pattern of fast flowing shots of different aspects of ‘Mia’ the main characters life. How our trailer will be different to Fish Tank’s trailer is that gradually over the shots you see Valerie’s life improving slightly since she’s met a nice young man but will also leave on a cliff hanger, a common convention of film trailers, to create suspense.











I also took inspiration from Series Two of Skins created by  Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain and run on 11 February 2008. I chose Skins because of the settings and characters. The settings in skins go from one extreme with shots of a council house estate to very expensive posh houses which creates a picture of the reality of UK's society.

The characters in Skins are around the same age as Valerie and so we took note of some of the shots skins have of how the characters look and are dressed and we will be shooting similar shots.

The last media text that I took inspiration from was London to Brighton because of the camera angles they captured of the characters