The trailer begins with a shot of Charity’s back looking onto a partially naked man on a bed in a diagonal position. Charity is wearing a cream/gold coloured silk dressing gown, as is the colour scheme of the room’s decoration. The room looks regal. This gives the impression on indulgence and the richness of this character's lifestyle, she is portrayed as though she has alot of material weath or a woman on a mission to own wealth, maybe through the men she chooses to have close relationships with. The audience do not yet know this character is charity because her back is turned to the audience. We then see her face and she gives a satisfied smile in a sinister way, as if she has acheived something, her goal, as if she is proud of her self; she turns behind and seems to be walking towards the camera. She walks to the bathroom where there is a bath tub, surrounded in red rose petals, placed in the centre of the large room, the long shot emphasises the size of the grand room. This shot suggests also to grandness of the house she is in, it has high ceilings and alot of trouble has gone to prepare the bath by decorating it with red rose petals- red roses are symbolic of passion and love.. but because she goes into the shot by her self to indulge in this luxurious bath, it is suggested she is selfish in a way.. maybe the passion and love which is portrayed is involved with herself - her passion for her acheivment and going into the bath to wash away her sins. There is then a close up of her eyes but she is not looking directly into the camera. The close up shot continues to her hand stroking her neck; she is wearing black nail varnish and a big black and gold ring on her finger. There is also a close up of her lips while she is putting on lipstick and strokes her neck again. After these close up shots, a medium shot assures the audience she is looking into a mirror sitting at a dressing table while she takes off her black short wig, another close up shows her kissing the mirror; the close up makes it seem like two people are kissing. There is then a medium shot of her back, this time with long, blonde, wavy hair taking off her gown followed by a shot of her feet where the gown piles to the floor. These shots are very sexual and makes her seem vain because she kisses her self in the mirror, maybe she is just making sure by looking into the mirror that it was all her who did this; being in this place was her personal goal and she had acheived it. She sinks into the tub, her back turned to the viewers; she is surrounded by candles and her head in the shot is aligned with the mirror on the dressing table making her seem centred. The water overflows and flows to the floor on the rose petals. Maybe the water washing away her sins finally wash away the passion and love (the red rose petals) away and the water is now mixed with the petals. There is a zoom of her face while relaxing in the comforting water, the zoom carries on to her eyes while they are shut. The zoom then reverses and zooms out from her eyes and shows her unsatisfied face and we see she is under the rain on a dark road, she looks up to the road sign where it says ‘Emmerdale’ which is ‘2’ miles away showing how close it is. From the sign it pans down where we can see her with the sign, she hitchhikes a ride towards Emmerdale and we see in a long shot the long dark winding road. She is back to square 1, at the beginning and the image contrasts with her indulging character. Just as though she seemed like she had lost everything, she gives a smile to the driver - a satisfied smile, and we realise that this is the beginning of a new journey; a new goal she has set out to acheive. The narrator is a woman and with a calm voice: “Trouble’s back, Charity returns”. Throughout the clips, the song “Trouble blues" is being played. It is a slow song and the lyrics ‘I won’t be trouble no more’ shows she is actually someone troublesome, or used to be at least. This trailer gives the idea that she will be trouble again and she is ready to use someone.
This trailer works very well because of the camera shots. The biggest effect it cause is the way it demonstrates contrast. From and indulgent character to a soaking girl in the middle of a lonely road. The camera shots are an obvious success; the close ups create
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