500 Days of Summer teaser trailer

Written and Directed by: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber and Marc Webb

‘Sweet disposition’ is the song played throughout this teaser which is significant because of the meaning of the song and the lyrics; the music itself is a convention of the genre. Throughout the trailer you only hear one voice, the characters don't speak making it vague and giving you only a brief introduction of the characters. The way this teaser has been constructed is by having the narrator tell us the story as we watch the characters in clips of their lives giving the audience a very inpersonal view on them. This makes it slightly quirky and gives the impression of it being an indie romance. The camera angles are often close ups, especially of the girl giving the impression she is the main focus of the boys life whereas we don't get the same impression from the girl. The camera tends to speed up and slow down in certain places to dramatise the length of time and the feeling of it slowing down or speeding up. Often in romcoms/or romance films they use time to portray the feelings of the characters. The narrator refers back to the name of the film throughout, "500 days of..Los Angeles, of promises, of uncertainty...of Summer" this repetition is used another three times throughout the trailer. This again links back to the idea of Summer(the girl) being the cause for all of these emotions and feelings for Tom. One part of this teaser which works very effectively is when the camera focuses on two different images; on the left is his expectations of him and Summer talking intimately and on the right is his reality, it is as if even he is not sure of which to believe anymore. This gives a slight hint into what the film may entail.