Analysing Movie Trailer - Juno.

Editing.

• The tailer cut in in 0.06 seconds.
• Quick shot from one slide to another one.
• Fades into the titles.

Sound. 

• Music is fast and quick.
• It is non- diagetic.
• The music is lower when the people speak.
• The first person that speaks tells yoou the whole plot of the movie.

 Text and instition.

• The cuts through the trailer.
• 'Fox SearchLights Pictures.'

Picture.

• First part of the trailer is filmed in the teenagers bedroom.
• Lots of locations shot in the trailer : park, living room, park, school, field.
• Fades into white for a different shot.
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Analysing Movie Trailers.

Ferris Buellers Day Day Off Trailer.

Bueller speaks straight to the camera.
The characheters repeat the main charachters name "Buller"
The music changes quite alot : everytime someone speaks or its a fun scene.
Trailer starts very slowly and begins to get faster.
The titles are repeated in.
The institution that was shown at the beginning is the "20th Century Fox "

Pan's Labarythn Trailer.


Narration -telling you a story.set in Spain in the spainish revouloution
 only narrator speaks because of the language that the movie is in - Spainish.
Lighting (low key) mostly dark.
The music on the trailer is frightening and eerie. It gets faster by the end shows alot of pictures.
The young girl in the movie never speaks.
Nobody speaks and there are no subtitles, jst reviews.


Juno Trailer.


First few seconds of the trailer is set in a teenages bedroom. it shows you that she is a
The first sentence tells you the whole pllot of the movie.
The music is funny and fits in with the type of the genre of the movie.
The text in the trailer tells you what will happen during Juno's pregnancy.

Persepolis Trailer.

The film is an animation
It is also a narration.

Angus Thongs And Perfect Snogging Trailer.

British Movie.
Set in lots of different locations: school, beach, house, bedroom, club..
The movie appeals to alot of teenages.
Its a comedy..

Son Of Ranbow UK Trailer

About two boys, with two different lifestyles end up being friends and making an action movie together.

making a cup of tea.

Action Adventure Pitch...

• Aubrey and Adrianna win a competition on a back of a cereal box to the Grand Canyon.
• They live with their grandparents, too old to go, they go themselves 
• Find out that their parents are still alive, also find out that their grandparents are evil.
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Kids- brother and sister
Journey/Quest
Set ; Grand Canyon

Media.

Key points:

Family friendly.
Not too many special effect.
Global Appeal.
TV Focus on marketing. - Trailer.
Making a making of programme, or an interview on a chat show with on of the actors/directors or planning a TV advert for merchandise ( action figures etc.. )

Task 1 - codes and conventions and representation
Task 2- institution and audiences- why hey are made, why they are popular and with whom
Task 3- ideas for films and synopsis.
Task 3- storyboard for TV trailer.

Media

What makes Gladiator an action hero?

o   He wears amour.

o   Fighting swords.

o   Strong

Statements about the hero in action adventure.

Spiderman

The hero needs to be physically strong and to be able to fight and travel long distances across difficult terrain.

Spiderman needs to be strong because he is a superhero and saves people.

He wears a costume to hide his identity.

He was power: his spider web.

·      Spider senses.

·      Spider webs.

Who is your favourite hero?

My favourite hero is Spiderman because you wouldn’t think of him as hero because he is a geek.  You wouldn’t think that a nerd would be a hero.

Iconography – the set of symbols or images used in cinema.  

How does the iconography help us with the genre?

The sword fighting.

Goonies

 This movie looks like they are on a adventure searching for something because they are holding a map. The miser en scene in a cave so they are searching for something maybe treasure. The facial expressions on the kids are confused and puzzled like they don’t know how to read the map. 

Casino Royale

§  Men – Guns, cars, violence, explosions, gambling fighting, machines money attractive women

§  Women – romance, James Bond, womanizer

§  Teens - stunts, action explosions, action cars

§  Adults – fighting violence

§  British viewers – British accent British classics.

§  American viewers- cars

List as many elements that appeal to the following groups.

§  Do you think the makers of the film and trailer intentionally tried to involve the two top groups you identified and alienate the bottom two groups? Why or why not?

Yes because men like to watch films with explosions, fighting and guns. They like to watch action adventure films. Most teens like to watch violence and action.

§  The movie made a quite a lot of money in the UK, because it was an action adventure movie and their audience was mainly men and teens.

§  The Fugitive

§  The man running away from something. Fugitive means on the run.

§  The text at the bottom.

§  The way the background is blurry

§  Gladiator.

Sword.

He’s wearing gladiator armour.

He’s in a arena.

Fighting.

Something dark.

The movie that fits mostly in the genre is Pirate of the Caribbean, because the it looks most obvious because in the poster there is sword fighting. You can tell that there is going to be action by the name.

The movie that is mo hard to define is Avatar because in the poster it looks more peaceful and you wouldn’t think that there is any action in it.

Dark Knight.

Characters  -

§  Hero - Batman.

§  Villain. – The joker.

Why are action adventure films so popular with audiences?

§  Action

§  Fighting

§  Cars

§  Sometimes romance.

§  Explosions

§  Weapons

§  Villains and Heroes.

§  Good guy saves the day.

§  Suspense.

Action movies are usually “ high concept “ films where the whole movie can be easily summarized.

Why do some people criticise action adventure films?

§  Simple theme

§  Cheesy storyline.

§  Low quality scripts.

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 The Oldies.

an group of retired pensioners have one last job, to save the day from evil youngers