Main Ideas And Genre Of Film Trailer.

Why do people watch Thrillers and Romantic films?

When making film trailers this is a very important thing to consider I order to connect with the audience.

Thriller:

When watching a thriller, most people go through the same thought processes, ‘what would I do in this situation’ ‘who do I relate to the most in this film’. Also when i looked into what people enjoy about the film its self, the replies are ‘I enjoy the tension of the film’ ‘I like to be able to place my self in the situation of the victim and see how I would react’. What makes a thriller successful is the ability to interact with the audience and cause them to be in some way affected by the film.

Romance:

This is a highly popular genre of film that many people enjoy. This is because the main conventions of the film are, the love story, an obstacle to overcome, and the happy ending. However the main reason why people like to watch romance films, is because they like to put them self in the position of the actors, and wish they could live that life, it helps the audience escape into a world that gives people hope. Also the women enjoy watching this type of film because of the male actors that always are featured in romantic films.

Plot - Wife and husband are happily married, however what husband doesn’t know is that the wife has been having an affair with the husbands boss, a twist is that the wife does not know that the man she is cheating on her husband with is the husbands boss.

Plot with the application of the Todorov theory:
The state of equilibrium is set as the husband believes that the relationship is going well with his wife. The disruption of the equilibrium occurs when the wife cheats on the husband with the husband’s boss. The recognition of this disruption would be when the husband reads the texts on the wife’s phone, and realising she was having an affair. An attempt to repair the damage of the disruption is when the husband takes matters in to his own hands and seeks vengeance against his boss. The return of a new equilibrium is the boss losing everything, his job as well as his freedom. 

Uses and gratification theory:

This theory understands the mass communication; the theory focuses on the audience its self and what they will do with the media they have been given rather than what media will do to the people. The theory sates that the audience them self are not passive but take an active role in interpreting the media they have seen and applying it to there own lives. There are three main reasons why people consume media, firstly is ‘personal relationships’, this is where the audience will use the media for emotional interaction, for example, using soap operas in everyday life (east enders). Secondly will be the ‘personal identity’, this would be where the audience will construct there own identity from the actors in a certain piece of media text. Finally ‘Surveillance’ this is where the audience will gather knowledge from watching the cartain type of media text.