Movie trailer

By Deborah Haastrup

Media

The following slides that have been analysed have different features of movie trailers that we

have liked and have generated ideas whilst

making our story board.

Kid

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hood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wM73Qyf

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Sound There is more dialogue at the beginning of the

trailer than the end as it speeds up. Dialogue

slows down the pace of a trailer so when it gets

towards the end there’s less of it.

A lot of diegetic sound throughout the trailer but

stops at important phrases to allow us to get a

feel of the characters through speech.

Camera angles /movement

The camera angles and movement are important

as they relate to the film moments. It captures

the main things to give the scene impact. E..g.

the camera showed Trevor (Aml Ameen) on the

floor with a high level shot. Then jumps cuts to

Sam (Noel Clarke) and pans over him from a low

angle shot. This has the effect of Trevor showing

submission to Sam as he is more powerful,

stronger and dominant over Trevor.

Editing There are lots of straight cuts to prevent revealing

characters reaction so it fades to next scene.

Bulle

t boy

Editing Their use of tag lines draw you into the story, it

gives you a written synopsis. By doing it a couple of

words at a time it makes the audience follow on till

it makes sense. The tag lines maybe used as a device that controls

the pace of the trailer . By interrupting the scene it

allows you to take the previous scene in. for

example in Bullet Boy the little boy is holding a gun

but the way he’s holding it shows inexperience and

as the scene fades into the tagline it leaves the

audience in shock that a young boys innocence is

fading. Sound

The music is by massive attack the piano plays for a

few seconds as the police are taking the guy away

and the whole song is soft emitting pity form the

audience. As the trailer goes into the next scene

the drums come in imitating a heartbeat , the music

gets louder it makes the audience

Heartbeat dark low hum drum beat piano 1st

Baby

Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhF

WPyzWrGA&feature=related

Starts with a prayer, the volume of the

prayer overtakes the diegetic sound

whilst showing different moving images

relevant to the prayer.

There is narrative throughout the whole

trailer. Although the narrator changes.

Jody was saying the prayer at the

beginning for the 1st 20seconds. It

introduces the type of character he is

and lets us in on what’s to come in the

movie. The narrator speaks after Jody but takes

a pause when a character speaks.

The framed moving image with the

caption shows the different ways to

introduce a character. for example Jody

looks intimidating this explains part of

his character.