Wuthering Heights (2011) Trailer

As a fan of Andera Arnold's previous work I was excited when the trailer for her new film, Wurthering Heights, was released.  Right from the start you can tell that this production is definitely the work of Andrea Arnold. Her style of hand-held camera work and diegetic sound is used all the way through this trailer. Arnold also uses binary opposites as displayed in this trailer, for example, we see a mysterious dark scene set within a field apposed with a really light shot of open landscape. I really love this trailer and the way it switches between dark and light scenes. I also like this trailer because of the emotion it captures, all the scenes are very powerful and the shots of the different characters, particularly the ones of their faces, are very emotive. The type of feeling this trailer gives off and the strong emotive feeling we get when watching it is what we hope to achieve within our film.

At the start of the trailer the camera is low, lurking in the long grass. It is apparent that it is quite late at night which adds to the mystery of the sequence. The audience is immediately put on edge and starts to wonder about the happens on the screen, who is this creature? what is it following? where is the location? The scene then cuts to a hand-held tracking shot following a character through the dark location, I particularly like this shot as we only see the silhouette of the character meaning that nothing is given away and the sense of mystery is retained. The hand-held camera work also gives the trailer a sense of realism and makes the audience really part of the action. We then see another dark scene with just enough light to see a young girls face, the girl has a quite a depressed and angry look about her. The dark mysterious scenes along with the emotion displayed by the girl hints to the audience that this film may be quite dark and cover hard topics. The only thing we hear throughout the first part of this trailer is the soft sound of blowing wind, this sound makes the audience focus on the action on screen and draws them into the cinematography. The screen then cuts to a medium shot of plants blowing in the wind, the brightness of this sequence is effective as so far the trailer has been very dark, the scene quickly then cuts to a few sequences of different characters, mostly using long shots, this introduces the audience to all the characters. Shots of nature are included in between these shots of character faces, drawing parallels between the characters and the idyllic countryside setting. We then see parts of different characters faces, this technique is called fragmentation, this continues the sense of mystery which is throughout the trailer. The trailer then uses quick jump cuts of all the characters at key moments within the film, this is typical of a trailer and therefore I will not be using this technique within my production. The only dialogue within the trailer appears three quarters of the way into the trailer, this dialogue finally gives the audience some clues as to what the film diagesis is about. The dialogue is simple, ''you broke my heart, you killed me'' these words give the audience the impression that the film has an underlying theme of love within it but also that the film is quite dark and violent. The dialogue is typical of the drama convention. The diegetic sound of wind and rain runs throughout the whole trailer and ties all the visual cinematography together. The trailer has a strong theme of nature which runs all the way through it. After this voice over we see the film a blurry long shot of a woman walking through another field, this gives off a sense of detachment and the audience starts to ask more questions such as is this the woman who spoke the dialogue? where is she going? drawing the audience into the action. The shot then cuts suddenly to a hand-held shot of a barn and the film name 'Wurthering Heights' appears, the trailer doesn't give much away about the film which leaves the audience with questions and influences them to go and see the production.