Anatomy of a love seen

In this trailer it starts off with two girls who are filming a love scene in a film and whilst that is happening the main character, Zoe, is narrating and is talking about love. Because of this, This tells the audience that there is going to be a love interest in the film for Zoe.

In the next scene the audience can see that the two actresses, Zoe and Mel fall in love through acting together and that they end up in a relationship in the outside world. Both of the characters subvert the general stereotypes of  a homosexual women as they are both feminine and ‘girly’ which shows a homosexual women in a different light in the media.

Throughout the trailer there is slow, harped and stringed music which connotes love and happiness and happy endings. The music starts to mellow down during the next scene when you can see that something has happened between both of the characters or they may have even broke up which makes it hard for them to continue pretending to be in love during the film that they are filming.

In this picture here, they have used a medium shot of the two characters on set about to film. The audience can see that they are both not happy and feel awkward. As Zoe is undressing herself a tear falls from her eye which shows the audience that she is not ok.

The trailer ends with both of the girls lying in bed together smiling, the audience will be asking themselves if they are both genuinely happy or if they’re just pretending for the film.