Research into existing films for ideas

By looking at the differnt type of films that already exist I can get ideas of the particular genre I want to focus on and look into it more deeply. I am mainly focusing on the lower budget films because my film trailer will be made on a lower budget.

Examples of high and lower budgeted films include:

Kidulthood. (A film based on a day in the life of troubled 15 year olds growing up in west London) This type of film was made to make the audience feel and understand how it was and could be portrayed as a documentary type of film that looks realistically on life. This film only had a budget of £600,000.

Fishtank. Again this low budgeted film follows Kidulthood in the sense of looking realistically on life in a documentary style following a foul-mouthed, stroppy fifteen-year-old who lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother. This film had an annual budget of £4 million and was directed by Andrea Arnold. Here is the trailer for Fish Tank to help get a feel for what the film is about:

This trailer is useful to my film because it shows alot of realism, this is a main factor which I want to incorporate into my film. The shots used in the trailer are also good to the audience because they can relate to the surroundings and scenes from the realism used. This trailer uses shots/ scences which I could use in my film easily because the mise-en-scene is so basic but realistic, this would mean that I could create shots/ scenes like this myself from the resources which I have.

American Teen
Amerian Teen is a documentary film which follows seniors at a high school in a small town in America and highlights the steriotypicalness of their various cliques. The film was written and directed by Nanette Burstein. Heres the trailer for American Teen:

I like this trailer because of its documentary style and this is what I'd like to create. I also like how it follows a group of teenagers and uses alot of voice overs. This is something I would like to adapt for my film trailer. The part I like the most in this trailer is the shots from 24 seconds to 34 seconds when each character is introduced but not for who they are, but who their social status has made them known as. I like this because it doesn't tell you about them but atomatically a sterotype character may come to mind so this leaves so much more for you to find out.