Our script has been progressing very well. Our whole group met on the weekend to work on it, getting out the kinks and shaping it into the final product. We have incorporated all of our 5 elements of a dystopia into our script. Everyone thinks they are living in a perfect utopia because none of the poor know that there is another class and the rich are perfectly happy with it. Freedom is restricted with the disability chips that are implanted into “all citizens” head’s. Communication is manipulated because the poor class cannot interact or communicate with the rich because of the chips. They are told that their society is all that there is and that anyone who strays beyond the boundaries disappears. The citizens are living in a dehumanized state because they are constantly working to make the world better for the rich even though they think it’s just for them. In our trailer we are incorporating both voiceovers and titles in order to get our message of a dystopia across. The titles describe the dystopia while the voiceovers show the perspective of our main character. We have 12 different scenes in our trailer but they all go by very quickly and is what we thought we needed to make sure our plot and message gets across to the audience.

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.