Monday, 15 July 2013
Analysis - The safe heaven (trailer)
The trailer for Safe heaven starts with a girl running away from a man in a dark city at night. The girl has a hood up and look scared and is constantly looking over her shoulder, she is clearly hiding from someone. The man seen chasing her is dressed all in black this sets up an enigma code as the audience are left wondering who this this man is and why he is chasing the girl. This links the genre of the film, romance thriller.
She successfully avoids the man and travels on the bus for a long time going to a area that is the complete opposite from the dark city. This is showing her running away from her past and starting a new life. The new location is shown in a bright morning light with a warm glow, this is done to show that the new life is much better and safer then the dense smoke filled city at the dead of night shown in the previous scene.
We see that the film is written by the best selling author of the note book and Dear John, The director of the cider house rules and chocolat; these are all films of the same genre and style and will attract all attract the same target audience who liked these previous films.
We see the woman in her new home looking around and talking with the local people, this is showing her growing accustomed the town and she now feels safe. When asked how she likes the town she says "its a change of pace" and we see a sepia toned, high adrenaline flashback of her running and then a flash of white light and we are back to the calm walk. In the flash back she has black hair, compared to her blond hair now, this shows a former life and that she has changed.
Then she meets the love interest who is a classically handsome shopkeeper. These two people make a good on-screen couple as they are both attractive people and are nice to look at for the audience, making the film more appealing. He leaves a bike outside her house during the night as a gift, and when confronted he revealed that he has seen her walking and gifted the bike to her; this is a nice and romantic gesture appropriate to the genre. She rejects the bike and we hear that she cant let him get to know her, this shows she has baggage tied to her past and this is the obstacle that the film is going to overcome, this also makes her more relatable and builds character depth. We then see that the man is a newly widowed father; this shows he also has baggage tied to his past. This makes him a better match for her as they both have a broken side.
We see that she begins to rethink her previous idea of him. When he asks her out to go canoeing there is a miss-communication and another random guy think he has been asked to go canoeing; HAHAHA this is the first attempt at comedy see in the trailer and is put in to lighten the mood of the trailer as we are now heading into the happier part of the trailer and film as she agrees to the date. They connect and we see three icon romantic scenes, the field, the beach and finally the woods, she says she is happy. The music going for this trailer has a strange overtone of impending disaster while feeling just a bit comforting, this is perfect as we then see the line "it's not what your running from" and then the chaos of the start of the trailer returns and the characters new happy lives are thrown up and disturbed and we see the finishing line "Its what your running to". The music gets louder and faster and the melodic voice becomes a almost chanting, until the leading man says that the safest place is with him and the chaos disappears instantly and all problems are resolved as the title and end credits role over a calming ripple on on a lake signifying the ripple effect and how it can still be calmed and made to be at peace.
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