Wonder Trailer (Stylistic Codes)
Wonder Trailer
This trailer
uses a lot of key features from mise-en-scene and other key features related to
media to provide a healthy constructed movie.
The colours
caught to the human eye is mainly the yellow school bus in the beginning of the
trailer, which provides information for the location too; the movie is set in
America, in a school. Throughout the movie you can see blue and bright visible
colours such as yellow, which could suggest purity or a rise of sunshine or
good action may occur to the character during the movie. From neutral living,
they will live through it and defeat it to have a bright yellow light shine on
them, making them the star for once. The blue colour can connote depth or
wisdom, faith; with this movie being about a kid not looking ‘normal’, the
colour blue could suggest that have faith, and something good will happen, a
good change.
Following
this, the lighting provided is generally natural lighting due to the movie set
in day time and is constantly in high-key lighting, however, when scenes at
home come you can see the lighting changes to low-key, and when a character is
filmed one half of their face is brighter than the other; this could suggest
that their home is a less happy place, than it should be and school is a happy
enjoyable place to stay. However, near to the end of the trailer the lighting
is in a constant high-key but also uses artificial lighting provided through
the scene where it’s set at night, and they’re watching fireworks explode.
To fulfil
the perfect characterisation of the movie being set in an America school, they
costumes followed are just your normal clothes, as schools in America don’t
require uniforms. These costumes are children clothes and what catches the eyes
is the amount of stripy shirts people wear, with cardigans or coats but some of
them intend to wear t-shirts, as a group in the beginning where all wearing
matching light blue t-shirts and navy trousers. However, these costumes are the
male characters, the female generally are wearing dresses most of the times
with bright vibrant colours. But, from the beginning and throughout the play,
to the end, you can see the main characters father costume, which is him always
wearing a grey suit; which could connote that he’s a hardworking, business man
and doesn’t have enough time for his son but really cares for him and the
colour of his ‘light blue’ shirt could portray his faith in his son.
And, for the
props we are provided with the normal stationary used for school children, the
average items; school bags, books, and lunch supplies for at school, which sets
the scene. At home the props provided in this trailer is only the light savers
the characters play with, to present a good time and that the child is finally
making friends and is enjoying his time at home.
Sound
provided in this trailer is mainly diegetic as it’s between conversations and actions
which happen between characters in school etc. But, during the cuts they use a
bit of non-diegetic sound to present one scene of action but it leads into the
next scene where it fits that sound and becomes diegetic again. However, apart
from the characters speech, we can hear music in the background which is a slow
and quiet piano playing; quite normal but will intend to uplift type of music.
As the scene continues and when the character becomes more happy and makes more
friends, and is laughing and not crying compared to the beginning, the music
uplifts and starts playing louder with happy humming, with a happy piano tune,
suggesting how things have changed for the better and it goes from bad to good.
However, apart from all of this, they use narration at the very beginning which
introduces us to the character, the main character and that his name is Argie,
and he will be starting school next week. And while he’s walking through school
for the first time, he talks about how he fits in and they don’t make him feel ‘ordinary’
because of his surgery done in his face, which he talks about further down the
trailer.
Editing/shots,
the editing used throughout the trailer is mainly jump cuts, matched cuts,
first person view, establishing shots, high shots, close ups, over shoulder
shots, and bird eye view. These are all used effectively during the trailer,
through conversations of dialogue between the two children at lunch time, and
to show which character is talking at each time, they use matched but jump cuts
to cut back and forth between the over shoulder shots used, while they speak
about “what super power would you have”. They use a bird eye view shot when it’s lunch
time and children are playing outside, running around in the playground.
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