The second film ‘Armageddon’ goes on for about 45 – 60 seconds this trailer also gives a lot of the plot away virtually all of it, ‘Armageddon’ is based on the same storyline as ‘Deep Impact’ but they stop the comet in a different way but they still survive.
Both these trailers are to detailed to leave any unanswered questions but ‘Deep Impact’ leaves more suspense.
‘Armageddon’ starts of with comedy these makes the film less tense but than suddenly the mood changes apart from the minor comedy at the start both trailers are serious throughout.
The opening sequences of the trailers are together different, ‘Armageddon’ starts off with comedy, a man cycling on is bike with his dog in the basket at this point he is talking to his dog but then a couple of small fragments of comet comes crashing out of the sky and smashing into anything in its path causing explosions. You then see a close up of the man and his dog the dog is hurt so the man shouts ‘’somebody call nine one one.’’ This could make the film less serious than ‘Deep Impact.’
‘Deep Impact’ starts very seriously, it begins with the president talking into a camera, which soon stops, and they go t another scene but you can still hear the presidents voice. You see peoples worried faces as if they can hear the president talking on TV or radio.
Both of these openings have quick edited clips telling you a bit of what is going to happen the only last a maximum of one second.
The quick moving images and the black outs are used to grab the viewers attention, and the expressions on the peoples faces on clips let you know that the film is dramatic.
The opening sequence for ‘Armageddon’ is the most effective because of the comedy factor. They also keep cutting to a picture of a digital clock giving you the feel of tension and a race against time.
They use natural light to highlight the tall buildings giving you a feel of height and what could be destroyed it also draws your attention to focus on the sky were the comets would be falling from so you always have that sense of danger throughout the trailers.
They use blackouts, which give you the sense of tension and not knowing what is going to happen next. The lighting is very effective in these trailers.
‘Deep Impact’ starts with the famous directors name Steven Spielberg they highlight that name making it big and using a contrasting background (white on black). Both trailers use graphics to portray the film and give bits of the plot away.
‘Deep Impact’ uses a lot of non-diegetic sound such as the presidents doing the voice over although it does start of diegetic when you can actually see the presidents face when he is talking to the camera. The sound is parallel all trough both trailers. ‘Armageddon’ also starts with diegetic sound and goes into non-diegetic sound when the quick edited video clips start to play.
Voice over is used in a trailer to give you the plot with voice instead of just images it also grabs the viewers attention. The voice over creates suspense and tension by the voices used, which are usually deep male voices.
‘Armageddon’s voice over is supplied by someone who is not in the actual film itself but is employed solely for this purpose. Whilst ‘Deep Impact’s voice over is supplied by the president after the trailer begins.
Both trailers use dark music, which creates tension and it parallel with the films themselves. The music stays generally the sane the whole way through.
Film trailers are very important to the successfulness of the film they most be shown when there is a peak time when people will be viewing the TV and not after a program when they could walk off. The trailer is also important because people watch trailers and say ‘I want to see that’ and if no one knows what a film is about he or she are not going to go and see it.
The most effective trailer is ‘Deep Impact’ because ‘Armageddon’ gives away too much of the plot meaning you don’t really have to go and see the film to know exactly what happens.
