Kaboom Trailer

This film trailer gave me inspiration for my video with certain scenes in it. The whole aspect of the film and the genre is simelar to mine & it has influenced my music video. Kaboom is a american sci-fi/ thiller comedy, with a little bit of horror and a tiny bit of drama. Alot of genres in one. It is targeted at young adults/ late teens with alot of sex and alot of twists we don't understand until the ending. There is drug usage in it and the idea of not being sober with lots of weird happenings you don't know if they are real or if Smith (the main character) is hallucinating. The animal masked people in suits i find are very freaky and weird and this is why i want to include them in my video.

The way the video is presented at the beginnning with a introduction to Smith, and about his life at the moment the video is immediatley seen to be a comedy. The music is upbeat and happy and Smith is narrating his story about his life. There is this constant talk about sex and his life as a uni student. The cuts are short and there is lots of close ups of Smiths face. We think it is a typical high-school teen drama. However halfway though the mood and music changes which shows a change in genre. As then Smith recives a letter we get the close up of with reads "you are the chosen one"- this puts forth the idea of a sci-fi kind of genre as well as a comedy. The music changes and we immediately know something weird is happening which relates to his talk of a reoccuring dream Smith is having. There is lots of shots of people in suits wearing animal masks- the shots are very creepy as we see them appear from nowhere and there is the voice of a screaming girl. The shots of the masked people and the unpleasent happenings are put together with a different genre of music and this is when we know that there is alot a bit of horror in the film.

The comedy of the film is repesented firstly by the way Smith and the other people in the shots dress. They are all wearing very colourful and fun clothing. The way in which Smith is talking and other people are talking to him is a sex based which has a comedy feeling to it also. The mood is very happy and fun like univercity. Smith is 19 years old which also creates the target audience to be around that age. The target audience would be people who might perhaps relate to Smith- aswell as being around that age. The mood changes when we being to understand there is a plot to the dream and as more things get filmed at nighttime and weird appearences are seen the genre changes and we know that there is more than comedy in the film.
This links into my ideas because there is more that one genre of film within my film. However i want to keep it limited so i dont complicate myself. The idea of drug useage and weird sightings is mainly my idea which fits into some of the scenes of this film trailer aswell as the genre of film.

These are two shots within the trailer which are especially good because the composition of the shot is incredibly good. like my ideas they are wearing animal masks and suits. The dark clothing connotes something sinister aswell as being unable to see theres faces so a lack of identity and we are unable to see emotion. Both shots are at nighttime with also connotes something sinister. The first screenshot is very good as it is looking down at them which subverts the shot of being dominated. Looking down on the animal masks who are looking up demonstrates their strength and even though the character is high up, is trapped. They posture is very strong and stood still- not human like. The shadows are very good as they give more of a eery feeling to the photograph. The second shot is extremely creepy as we see the masked villan looking through the door. Again it is dark, and the dark clothing and the shadow and lighting behind him gives a very horrorish feeling to the shot, this connotes the genre. The effect the masks have on the representation subverted is extremely well done as the masks show nothing. they are emotionless and silent. They are mysterious and we do not know if they are really real or not. Which is what i want to put forth in my video with the representation of drugs.