He loves me, He loves me not trailer deconstruction

Sound

• Voiceover
• Romantic, soft music to begin with
• ‘in love with her art’ and ‘in love with his work’ – drawing parallels by using 'in love' twice, establishing genre also
• ‘searching for something special’ - typically romantic
• ‘chance encounter brought them together in a love affair that looked perfect until they each took another look’ - mood and tone of trailer changes to a more sinister feel
• Sound of rushing, wind-like to mimic rewinding time
• More tense, subtle music comes in after rewind
• ‘was it passion or paranoia’ and ‘was it desire or delusion’ - creates contrasts and provoking questions to the audience about what the actually plot of the film will be
• Enhanced, emphasised diegetic sound of camera shutter
• ‘was it a secret or something else’ - posing questions 
• ‘acclaimed internationally actress Audrey Tatou’ -using her name and reputation to promote film 
• ‘Invites you to share the seduction but don’t reveal the secret’ - involves the audience and suggest they will be in on the secret 
• Music builds towards end to become more creepy and enticing almost 

Titles

• ‘Samuel Goldwyn films’
• Black and white titles, ‘he loves me’ fades in first followed by ‘ he loves me not’ and the second phrase grows whilst the other sinks back which emphasises the ‘he loves me not’
• Titles of passion and paranoia are juxtaposed
• Titles of desire and delusion are also juxtaposed

Mise en scene

• Roses – predominately red connotations of lust, desire and love
• Life drawing class – intimate
• X ray of heart – cardiologist, science logical side of the heart rather than the theme of love
• People kissing on tv – ideals of love, fixation, constantly surrounds us  
• Handing over of pink rose often given to another to express thankfulness, admiration and happiness
• Parisian life - city of love
• Arc de triomphe - iconic of Paris, establishing scene
• Behind a fence - distanced, lept away from him always looking in on him 
• Throwing suitcase off bridge
• Waiting by the telephone
• Behind glass window - again distanced from him 
• Wedding dress - doesn't fit
• Police investigation - camera documenting crime
• Kissing another woman when we are led to think that the other couple are together
• Mouth to mouth
• Painting over portrait in destructive manner
• Artwork
• Enigma as to what’s in the box

Camera angles

• Frame is filled with roses and protagonist is centered at the middle of this surrounded by roses
• Pan across model to sketch
• Camera revolves around action doesn’t remain static
• Close up/ reaction shot of her face when she sees him on Tv
• Zooms into his face, grainy quality as it’s on a tv screen – facial expression is worried
• Close up of hands on paper towel – focus on their interactions
• Close up on pink rose – again focus on their interactions
• Mid shots of them smiling at one another
• Panning shot of driving car – following them
•  Fast tilt downwards to close up of her face behind fencing
• Over the shoulder shot showing the audience what see is looking at – him pacing around his office, camera is at a low angle as she is looking up at him
• Pan following him walking through a crowd at a party
• Over view shot over her throwing suitcase in water
• Long shot switches to close up as she is running
• Crane shot retracting from her backwards down a spiral staircase
• Mid shot of passionate kissing and as they move aside she is seen standing isolated, alone across the road
• Over view shot pull upwards as she receives CPR
• Close up of his face as he revives her – concern, worry
• Close up of destruction of painting  
• Camera has been placed in the box so that we can see the characters rather than what is inside the box, box lid is then shut
• Close up of the box but cuts to his reaction so enigma is created about the box
• Close up of her admiring smile as she accepted the rose

Editing

• Jump cuts from one snippet to another
• Often cuts fade in and out to black
• Fading images into one another
• Car is reversed at a fast pace into a rewind of action and time
• Fast moving montage of film is shown in the rewind of time
• Words ‘passion’, ‘paranoia’, ‘desire’ and ‘delusion’ are overlaid onto top of images
• ‘passion’ is faded into ‘paranoia’ and this is the same with ‘desire’ and ‘delusion’
• Long, over view shot of her and close up of her face have been overlaid on top of one another to create a contrast
• Pace of cuts from one image to another builds towards the end of the trailer
• Three split screen of her doing her make up
• Flash to white screen after he opens the box

Amy Freeman