Today in our first media lesson we looked at how to analyse a trailer; we looked at the features of a trailer, we used the following headings for the features:
Genre, Narrative, Unique Selling Point, Target Audience, Music, Shot Types/Camera Angles, Pace, Dialogue, Voice over, Special Effects & Credits and Inter titles.
We decided to analyse the 2012 Trailer, here is what I wrote for the following categories:
Genre: Adventure, Action & Sci-fi.
Narrative: End of World, Fight for your life.
Unique Selling Point: The amount of special effects.
Target Audience: People who enjoy Sci-Fi films, people who liked War of the Worlds, Independence Day & The Day after Tomorrow.
Music: Inquisitive at the beginning, dramatic, Rock. Makes it seem Epic.
Shot types/Camera angles: Long shots, Birds eye view, Canted angles
Pace: Quick paced, action. Slow at the beginning of the trailer. There is a 'Surge of Action' and then a 'Release'
Dialogue: There isn't much Dialogue. There is a comedy bit where a Dad says to his Daughter 'What are the Odds?' The only dialogue there is, is when it is necessary. The news reader repeats 'this year' a few times, it homes in on how close it is to the end of the world.
Voiceover: Man reading the news over a few shots.
Special Effects: There are lots of special effects, they obviously havn't cut corners on teh amount of them. There are waves destroying everything, Buildings crashing & CGI.
Credits and Intertitles: The intertitles give brief details about when the film is released and how the end is only the beginning. Appocalyptic films.
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