Tron: Legacy trailer analysis and others

Tron:Legacy teaser

Shots: Wide variety, mid, p.o.v, high angle, low angle, establishing shot,

Movement: tracking, tilt, camera is rarely steady

Mise en scene: futuristic technology, mix of technological terrain and actual land(mountains) not much revealed so is therefore convincing the audience to watch and want to end up watching the whole thing.

As if I’m not there: trailer analysis

Clues about the storyline

-Dismal, setting,

-Tattered clothes

-Messy hair

-Being lead off by men with guns                   suggests an emotional film, a film about sadness.

-Music is slow and sad

-Centres around one girl, sad,

terrified expression

-Half fallen down buildings

-Number tattooed on wrist                         Suggests that they are prisoners       

-Men and women are separated

-Women is about 20, the men she is shown with are older

-Prostitute? Is shown having sex with many different men, though she looks tense and scared, so she is being forced to have sex with these men.

-Setting-Eastern Europe (difference in mountain ranges, trees etc); Bosnia. Women are wearing headscarfes and they are riding horses

Trailer analysis

Theatrical trailer (Water for elephants):-

Pans out, mid shots, establishing shots, 2 shots

Fades

Gives the main actors names and any accreditations.

Gives a brief storyline eg. ‘That’s the most famous circus disaster’

‘Life is the most spectacular show’

Music starts quietly and slowly, builds up, comes to climax and then gets slower toward the end

Teaser Trailer (Pirates of the Caribbean 4)

Direct address to the audience, tries to get the audience involved

Gives info about what’s in it ‘zombies, mermaids etc’

Paranormal Activity2

Actual whole clips from the film just playing

Flashes

‘Nothing can prepare you’