Research Into Target audience: The Road

Whilst doing my presentation my teacher mentioned 'The Road' as a potential research point as it is a very similar film to the one I intend to create for my trailer. Starring Viggo Mortensen (Lords of the Rings trilogy) an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea in a dangerous post-apocalyptic world.

With a Runtime of 111 minutes 'The Road' is based off a novel with the same title and was filmed from the 27th of February 2008 to 29 April 2008. The film had an estimated $25,000,000 budget  and made $1,502,231 in its opening weekend (USA). It was written by Cormac McCarthy (novel), Joe Penhall (screenplay) and directed by John Hillcoat. The production Company was Dimension films and 2929 productions.

The trailer relies heavily on mise-en-scene to create a realistic portrayal of a dystopian world. From the trailer and from watching the film the main setting is in a town surrounded by woodland which is perfect for the locations I am using. 

From the trailer we have a narrative from the main character 'The Man' which gives the audience an  better insight to events that have taken place prior to the film's events and gives the audience information of the status life is in. From the first shot we see a Cristian cross which is a suggestion that their is still hope in the world. From this we are given shots of various isolated environments. The colours in this trailer are dark and grey emphasising the type of world being portrayed here and that everything in this world is dying getting darker as more of the world falls apart.

we are presented with a goal ''To head south'' this is where the characters believe there is a hospitable environment where they can reside peacefully. However this idea is faced with a problem and the trailer takes a take turn as we are presented with ''gangs that are searching for food''. These gangs are presented as humane to some degree as one of them say ''That boys looks hungry'' showing a caring side to other characters which are treated hostile by 'The man'.