Miss-en-sence and Genre
The suicide squad trailer has something interesting in the
beginning of the trailer: the two titles screwing backwards (this is a pun on
“a screw lose” saying). Another thing we see in the start is something that
stays throughout the trailer is dim lighting which makes us feel uneasy.
Another thing bound to grad your attention is the music,
it’s like a single person from a choir singer, (which usually makes us think of
something peaceful, calm and pure), but as the trailer goes on it picks up
becoming more louder and more twisted, which makes us feel uneasy and just not
very nice.
Also what you see in this trailer is a lot of even mid-shots
that usually capture the entire group which tells us that this group is very
close together( understandable because they all have one thing in common,
getting rid of Batman.
The locations in this trailer are only a few, an insane
asylum, a training ground and the city which all have very dim/dark lighting
and are all very gritty and unpleasant, which capture the tone of the film
perfectly, and tells us that is isn’t very friendly. Something else you might
notice are the colours on the costumes of these characters
Only two of the group have very bright, flashy colours and
they are: The Joker and Harley Quin this shows us whom the leaders in the group
are (the colouring is also very fitting because it counters Batman’s all black
costume
The lighting and colouring alone tells us that this is a
horror film, because as like the music it makes us feel uneasy and scarred, we
feel disturbed and wonder what exactly this group is going to do. Given that they don’t look like the typical
super-hero squad, which also makes it more interesting
There is a good level of explanation here with some analysis. Potentially Merit level and beyond - you connect to genre which you cold focus on consistently in each paragraph.
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