Analyse and review two contrasting film trailers, commenting on the techniques used to make each one effective.

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Analyse and review two contrasting film trailers, commenting on the techniques used to make each one effective.

Film trailers are made to advertise films to an audience in a cinema, an audience watching television programmes, videos and DVD's. Their purpose is to interest the viewers in seeing the film by showing enticing clips from the film in a very clever technique so that the whole story line is not given away. The two trailers that I am discussing are Jaws and Gladiator.

Jaws is a 70's horror film which is base on a shark attack in a happy tranquil setting in America where raw physical violence is the last thing on ones mind. At first the little town of peacefulness is all well until there are several cases of shark attacks discovered on the beach so the local detective and an expert fisherman go out to sea to try and capture the "eating machine". Stephen Spielberg directs this thrilling film.

The tension in the trailer of jaws is almost immense as it is created by Horror orchestra music, which gradually gets louder and faster as something bed is about to happen, this is done to create more suspense. The tension also increases, as the camera is underwater looking up at the teenage girl swimming to make the audience think that they are seeing everything from the shark's eyes. Slowly, as the piercing music is played, the camera zooms up and swims towards the girl to make it look like a shark attack is about to happen. This shows the audience a wide range of different camera shot techniques.
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I think this is done in such a professional way to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The editing of Jaws is done in a very unique because at the beginning there is only two fairly short shots underwater, then as it gets towards the middle of the trailer, the shots become longer so the audience can get a better idea of what the film is about without having given the whole plot away. The editing is not at the same pace at all, it is all varied to the flow of different images so ...

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