Eastnders Trailer

This trailer of Eastenders dominantly conveys emotions and characters through camera work and sound. The opening shot is a close up of a characters feet this goes on for a while creating suspense for the audience. This is followed by a mid shot of max which shows the audience the character in trouble. The high angle shot of Max gives the audience a judgmental position. The next over the shoulder shot introduces his son Bradly who is in uniform suggesting power. We see aspects of self-parody when Stacy is presented as a cleaner, this is mocking her low moral values.

Further more, the bluesy music used helps add to the suspense and mystery of the trailer.
There is no dialogue so everything is conveyed through body language and eye contact, this emphasises Max's isolation form is friends and family.The sound is echoed through the trailer and they also use diagetic sounds that also helps to create the silent and isolated atmosphere.

The lighting is very distinctive. At one point the light is only shining on max which puts him in the spotlight as if he is being judged.

Stacey's slow motion walking is effective as it creates suspense for the audience.
The close up shot where Stacey presses the button for Max's lift, suggests imprisonment and how the lift closes on him showing how Stacey has turned her back on him. We then move to see Tanya pulling out a morgue, suggesting that to Tanya, Max is dead.
The we get a twist where Max turns around and Jack appears. Jack is holding a death ticket with Max's name on it, connecting with the trailers slogan "he's made his bed, but will he lye in it.

Multiple narratives are common in all soaps as they follow the lives of the characters from different viewpoints. This trailer follows the conventions because even though Max is the character the audience follows, we still see it from other characters view point such as Tanya, when she’s standing by the bed in tears it leads the audience to the idea that she’s upset and heartbroken, yet still very angry at Max’s affair. In addition, the trailer followed a non linear structure as the events are portrayed out of chonological order, this is also typical of a soap trailer.
The trailer is very hyper dramatised as it plays on the Stacy and Max affair storyline, this follows the conventions of soap trailers as they usually hyper dramatise the storyline and make it seem bigger, attracting the audience as it keeps them watching.

Self-parody: Following the hyper dramatic approach, the trailer also consists of self-parody, especially to Stacy and Bradley’s character. As the viewers know that Stacy is having an affair with her, soon to be, husbands father, she is viewed as the bitchy, slutty character, hence the bawdy maids costume.