Ashley Finch Media Studies

Analysis of Setting

Location List

Corridor

Picnic Bench's

Outdoors along a footpath

Common Room

Class Room

The Park

'Princesses' Houses

Inside the 'Princes' Car

We decided to use a school as our main setting as this conveys the modern time setting to our target audience. It is also a setting which our target audience can relate to having spent the majority of their lives at school and therefore will be interested in. By using a school as the setting, we felt we were dividing our trailer from typical conventions of a fairytale story which are generally set in a castle or a secluded rural area. We felt that this would help modernize our trailer to a 21st century setting and contrast it with a typical fairytale setting.
We also used some outside shots which we didn't particularly pick for the setting, however the lighting in these shots contrasted with the indoor corridor shots and made a good variety.
Most of our shots were based in and around school as this is the main setting of the film. However we contrasted this with shots of 'The Princesses' at home and in other various locations as we wanted to include variety and originality in our trailer.

This is one of the corridors we considered for filming. We also had another one in mind for filming as we thought the lighting in here was very tempermental and may not do our shots any justice. We did end up using one or two pieces of footage from this particular corridor however for the tracking sequence following the 'Princesses' walking towards the camera we decided to use the following image which had better brighter lighting and colouring.

We decided also to have a sequence of the 'Princesses' descending these stairs as we thought the lighting here was quite good. Whilst editing out footage we also thought that having this sequence backwards would be a good effect however we decided that the background music may not suit this particular effect.

This is the firebell which we decided we would include in the opening of our trailer. It emphasizes both the setting and the time period, conveying to the audience a modern school. The close up shot also adds to the variety within our trailer.