THE GUEST HOUSE

The Guest House:

The film ‘The Guest House is a romance film. At the very beginning of the trailer there is non-digetic music playing which is upbeat and fits in well with the target audience which is teenagers. The audience are able to work out that the film is going to be a romance film because at the very beginning they introduce the main character Rachel. The father of Rachel at the very beginning tells Rachel that she is grounded and that no boys are allowed over which automatically lets the audience know that she may have a love interest and is at that age where she will become sexual. This is a good way of getting the audience’s attention straight away because they will be able to relate to the troubles and struggles of being a teenager. The camera shot that they have used is a medium shot of both Rachel and her father having a conversation and so that the audience can see her body language and attitude towards her father. They way Rachel is dressed is very punk and gothic like which fits in well with the target audience because teenagers have a tendency to experiment when they are of a young age.

The next thing the audience can see is Rachel’s father informing her that he is going away for the weekend at a business conference and that he has a new work colleague that will be moving in with them later on. They then do an over the shoulder shot of Amy, the new housemate knocking on Rachel’s front door which is a good way of causing suspense in what the character looks like.

The audience can see in the next scene that both Rachel and Amy have become friends and have bonded within the first day of living with each other. There is still upbeat music playing at this stage to keep the audience hyped and in a happy mood to fit in with the genre of the film. Because the audience have not yet seen Rachel’s love interest and it is half way through the trailer, they start the question Rachel’s and Amy’s sexuality and wonder if both of them fall in love.

In the next scene you see various shots of both of the girls being intimate; this has a major twist to what the audience would have expected. Rachel conforms the general stereotypes of a homosexual woman because of the way she is dressed in dark and grungy clothing and Amy is dresses formally and ‘girly’ which subverts the general stereotypes.