If I Stay Film Trailer Analysis

The trailer begins with an extreme long shot of what looks like someone auditioning for something in a huge theater. The theater is completely empty apart from three figures you can make out just in front of the stage. The audience can tell just how empty it is as you can hear the diegetic sounds of footsteps of the girl auditioning. The next shot is a long shot but this time it is from behind the girl auditioning. From this shot we can see the three judges and also all of the empty seats around. We see a close up shot of the girl looking up at the ceiling in the theater. This links back to the scene before in which a boy was explaining to the girl why the ceiling of his bedroom matched the ceiling of the theater- it would not seem so scary on the day. This therefore means that because the girl is looking at the actual ceiling in the theater it could show that she is thinking about what that boy said to her. For the next part of the trailer the girl is explaining how the boy, Adam, is something more than her. The trailer shows him in almost a better light than her. He is seen to be in a band and she is seen to just be at home with her family all the time. This links with the next part of the trailer where her mum says 'She shouldn't be scared to hang out with those guys'. This could suggest that the girl thinks that she is not right for Adam because she is different from him. However, from the next scenes of the trailer we see the girl with Adam a lot and it seems as if they are in a relationship of some sort.
About halfway through the trailer we hear the voice of the girl saying how life can be one thing and then in an instant it can be something else. We then see a close up shot of a car wheel skid on the icy road. Instantly the non- diegetic music changes. It becomes slower and there is a sad tone to it. The next shot we see is a birds eye view of the girl lying on the snow. However her eyes are still open and she does not look hurt in any way so the audience would assume she is unhurt. Despite this we then see a long shot of their car, completely upturned and surrounded by firemen. At this point the girl calls out for her parents and her brother but no one acknowledges her. The audience may not begin to suspect something is wrong. We then see a high angle shot of the girl lying on the ground with paramedics attending to her. She looks lifeless. In this shot however we can still see the girl standing there, over her own lifeless body. We then hear her say 'Am I Dying?'. This would then lead the audience to believe that she is in fact dying or already dead because she is standing over herself. A close up shot is then shown of the girl and a doctor. The doctor is whispering to her how it is all up to her, whether she lives or dies and that she needs to use every bit of fight she still has in her. This links back to the beginning of the trailer where she was explaining how she wasn't really anybody whereas now she needs to be. A close up shot shows the girl who is watching over herself dying that she is almost heartbroken that she can't do anything about it but somehow she has to find out a way to. For the remainder of the trailer we see all the events in her past that are significant to this day. It also goes against what she was saying about being a nobody because the different shots show people who care about her very much which means that she is someone people care about. This would give the audience a slight bit of hope that she will wake up because she will have this new found confidence that all the people who care about her want her back in their lives.