Catfish Trailer Analysis

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This clip begins with a guy sat in his house casually on the phone (close up) to the girl character he has met through Facebook. We see bright colours in the beginning connoting that the film is innocent, fun and light hearted which is reinforced by the children singing as non diegetic sound when we see old childhood videos on screen of the female character. The audience discovers the main male is called Nev and it is obvious that the film is of his life documented by his friends. Viewers are intrigued by how personal the footage is as it's from a handheld camera (point of view shots) and the clips are of Nevs life in chronological order which makes it easier to understand. We see a photoshopped photograph of him and the girl connoting that she isn't all she seems as Nevs friends made the photo for a laugh because they think she is surreal.  

The trailer seems humorous at the beginning but then the non diegetic music becomes serious and the lighting in the footage gets darker connoting that things change into a darker story. This is intriguing to the audience as they will be confused as to why the narrative seems to get more serious, however there is quite a lot of the narrative given away through using voiceovers over images throughout. Also, the audience see screengrabs from social media through a montage of images and clips. Whenever an intertitle appears on screen the background looks pixelated which connotes technology advances, this would attract a younger audience between the ages of 14 and 25.  

This is an independent, low budget film from universal pictures. At the end of this clip is reviews, official website, quotes from website, but there is no institutional information like the directors/actors names or a release date.