LOVING ANNABELLE

Loving Annabelle:

The film trailer starts off with introducing the main character Annabelle to the target audience. The audience are able to work out that it is Annabelle’s first day at a new, private school. By her attitude and body language the audience can see that she does not want to be there and that she is behaving like a stereotypical teenager who thinks they are too cool for school.

The next scene we see is Annabelle being shown around the school by her teacher, it does not look like she is paying much attention to what Miss Bradley, her teacher is saying because she is so caught up in not wanting to be there. Annabelle gives of a rebel impression to her class mates and to the audience because of her body language and because in a few shots you see her hanging around smoking on the school premises as if she isn’t bothered by anything.

In the next scene we see Annabelle in her first class where she is being taught by the teacher who was showing her around, Miss Bradley. When Miss Bradley is speaking to the class and is asking them questions, Annabelle comes out with very forward and straight to the point answers, almost as if she is after Miss Bradley’s attention. By this stage in the trailer the audience are able to work out that Annabelle is homosexual because one of her classmates Kat says “finally a lesbian”.  The audience can work this out but yet can’t quite work out who her love interest will be.

Annabelle starts stroking Miss Bradleys hand when everyone is sat together which makes the audience question whether Annabelle fancies her teacher.  Whilst this is happening there is a narrative voice over of Miss Bradley saying “I can’t help but keep thinking that you are trying to get a rise out of me” this lets the audience know that she knows they way Annabelle feels towards her.

During the trailer the audience eventually can see that there is something between Annabelle and Miss Bradley because Miss Bradley shows more attention and affection to Annabelle than she does any other student. The audience can see that Miss Bradley knows that having an affair with a student is wrong but she can’t help feeling the way she does. Love is a powerful thing and once its there it won’t just disappear.

Annabelle conforms the general stereotypes of homosexual women because she is overly confident and aggressive. We know this because during the trailer the audience see her fighting with other students.