Theatrical 3 - 'The Clapper'

Trailer:


Analysis:

This trailer exploits the conventions of a romantic comedy. This trailer introduces the two 'lovers' at the start of the clip, accompanying their interactions with the bright, guitar, upbeat music. The awkward interactions are endearing to the audience. The job of the man intersperses their dates and meetings, showing how important his job is to him. This also creates a state of equilibrium. The music in the scenes when the man is at work is stopped, showing how the important part of the film is the romance and that the work could potentially become a problem for their relationship. This problem is defined in the introduction of the 'Jayme Stillerman Show' which builds tension and disrupts the state of equilibrium. At this point of disruption, the music stops again, and changes to a more reflective tone using a slower pace and singing. A further disruption in their relationship is again marked by the stopping of music and playing of a different song, at a faster pace. These more intense scenes with trouble disrupting the relationships are accompanied by lower level lighting and a more bleak, desaturated colour palette, with darker greenish tones. The scenes that follow, show the romantic couple separated and a rift in their relationship as they are no longer in the brighter lighting and are no longer together. Then, there are frequent shots of the couple together, interspersed with shots of them apart which suggests a return to equilibrium and a possible love match at the end, a denouement.