Wednesday 18 September 2013

Film trailer conventions

The Strangers

The film starts off with the company name, slow piano playing in the background to relate to the genre of the film, long clips, mixture of medium and close ups, inspired by true events attempting to bring reality to the film, change in pace of transitions, faster cut scenes towards the middle/end of the trailer, season release ( this summer), slow mo at the end, film characters, coming soon no release date and the website for the film.
             




Come Out And Play

the film starts off with the film directors, tag lines throughout the film, tense music throughout the film, the pace of the film picks up especially as the film goes towards the middle and the end, faster cut scenes and transitions, no release date, director of the film at the end, stabs throughout the film especially towards the end, medium close ups during tense scenes through the trailer, music stops and the screen goes black to build up tension. Non - diabetic sound used appropriately to relate to the film.


                                                                                     
Devil

Universal pictures, green screen, company names who the made the film, casual non diagetic music playing, tag lines throughout the film, sudden mood switch in the film, this flal so it shows the release date,from universal pictures, shows main characters, blurb at the end of the film stating all the directors and the people who helped to make the film, very fast cut scenes towards the end allows to build up tension and action, man medium close ups in the film especially towards the middle, props used such as sharp broken glass and blood relates to the genre of the film.

The Purge

The film trailer starts off with the green, tag lines at the start of the film, very slow relaxing music at the start, big change in tempo of the film especially with cut scene as at the start of the film very long clips joined together, during the middle the tempo begins to pick up which shows that the tension is building up, music has changed to more of a serious thriller style, Universal pictures logo appears, brings up previous films the producers have made e.g. paranormal activity and sinister, release date of the film at the end also with another tagline, facebook page for the film.


Overall Summary

Overall the film trailers have very similar conventions such as the green picture at the start which states the following trailer is for appropriate audiences, also throughout all trailers there was a big swing in mood set from the beginning to the end as the cut scene tempo changed to very fast, music also changed and the camera angles. Many of the film trailers at the end had a form of marketing as they usually had a website which led to more information about the film or a social networking site such as facebook which has a like page.

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