Title: In Time

Director: Andrew Niccol

Rating: PG-13

Synopsis: This movie details the life of Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) who lives in a futuristic setting where time is currency. Will tries to narrow the social Economic statuses by teaming up with Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) in order to steal time from the rich and give it to the poor.

Webster New Collegiate Dictionary defines a dystopia as an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The trailer In Time effectively exemplifies said society with its beautiful cinematography, riveting music. The audience can first notice the movie’s dark motifs with the high contrasting and dingy hews of blue, grey, and dark orange which appear many times throughout the trailer. There are also bold titles that are also dark in nature, giving imperative details about the conflict and shaping the ornate plot. This trailer also is formatted so that the clips are longer in the beginning and get faster and shorter towards the end building tension and excitement. This cinematography is crucial to the development of the dystopian society but the ominous and exciting music is the major hint that this is about a dystopian society. The music starts out low and dark and gets faster and louder as the trailer progresses adding to the already tense atmosphere of the drama. My group will definitely be using action packed music with low and dark points as well as intense and uplifting points in order to get the audience interested. Lighting is key, and in order to create an affective setting and feeling to the trailer we will be using dark colors as well. Whether we use titles or not is based on how we want to get the message across but they definitely add to the In Time trailer and we now know how to effectively use them.