Saturday, 21 November 2009

Film trailer analysis

Film trailers are commercials that purely advertise to gain an audience. With the math being simple: the more people you get to see the trailer, the more likely you are to get people interested in shelling out cash to see the actual film. There is a significant amount of editing that takes place to ensure that a trailer serves it purpose because they aim to show a shorter version of the actual film but only including the most important and interesting shots to attract the relevant audience.


I looked at two different genre trailers:  The christmas carol

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3629253145/

Genre- animation (children, family)
 
Narrative- classic christmas carol about Ebenezer Scrooge and the 3 ghost that visit him.
 
Unique selling point- 3D film as well as the film being a remaking of the well known christmas story.
 
Target audience- (PG) children and family
 
Music-
  1. cheerful music
  2. christmas music
  3. silence when scrooge talks makes it more dramatic
  4. At the climax music gets faster
Shots types/ camera angles- ariel shot/ birds eye view following snow flake and then it lands on scrooge and this introduces the main character we then get a close up of scrooges face and see his emotions and repsone to christmas.


Pace- starts slow setting the scene then speeds up showing more action and drama happening making it more intresting.


Dialogue- scrooge says
  1.  "Bah- Humbug"
  2. can i have them all at once (humour)
  3. is someone there (scary)
Voiceover- repeating the main information e.g. 3D and popular actor Jim Carrey

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