The voiceover was short, and very precise, the voiceover’s function is to say that the film is back and better than ever, this voiceover is at the start of the trailer. The music in the trailer is heavy metal and follows the trailer’s speed so when it is at its fastest the screen is just flashing of short clips of the movie when the most action is occurring. This tells me that the movie is full of action. This is the perfect example of an action film. Tom Cruise says, “You must be kidding?!” The colours in the trailer are black, green and red. These colours represent that the film is a high tech, action film. The trailer video start slow like the music and then speeds up at the end during the action bits and slows down at the end. Special effects are another main point of the trailer; explosions and cool looking fight sequences. My opinion is the trailer is fast and is a good example of an action film as it is riddled with explosions and fights. The music also complements the trailer very well, however the trailer doesn’t tell anything about the storyline of the film.
Trailer 02: Austin Powers in Goldmember
The voiceover…which is a first for me was very strange…..the voiceover kept switching between phrases in the film and the voice over made sense. Example….
Character Phrase: “Austin Powers!”
Voiceover: “In Goldmember!”
Now this was done all the way through the trailer. The music in the trailer was only at the start, it built up suspense and then a funny portion of the trailer happen which made it humorous and well timed. The genre of the film was easy to locate and it was a comedy film. The characters are very varied and yet the same.....Mike Myers plays as Austin Powers, Fat Bastard, Dr. Evil, and Goldmember. While Beyonce Knowles plays as Foxy Cleopatra. Michael Caine plays as Austin’s father. The colours in the trailer are bright and very exotic…..they are blues, reds, yellows and greens. These colours are to represent the 60s as Austin Powers the character comes from that era. The trailer in general is quite light and slow. This is because to movie is quite laid back and relaxing. There are no special effects used in the trailer as i feel the movie is quite low budget. My opinion of the film is that the film is quite laid back and it probably has no structure at all as it has a storyline that is non-existent. I feel that like the film the trailer has no plot at all….the trailer feels cheap and it looks like the filmmakers has just quickly thrown together a few clips from the film, this dosen’t sale to me.
Trailer 03: Extreme Ops
The voice over in this trailer is quite good and it does effectively create suspense and a mood for an action film, and i feel this is its function in the trailer. The music in the trailer is quiet but heavy with the voice over it successfully creates a action atmosphere and is very good. The trailer easily indicates that the film is an action film. This is probably the downfall of the trailer, it shows nothing about the characters at all, you can tell that the characters are thrill seekers and have ‘guts’ to say what they say and do what they do. The main colour in the trailer is white as the film is based in the mountains, but the information like the title and the director’s name are shown in green and orange….usually signs of modern technology and speed. The trailer is very fast paced and dosen’t stop for one bit. The special effects are slow motion tricks on a snowboard and helicopter sequences. The trailer is very good although the lack of character description, I will defiantly see this film. The plot of the trailer is very clear and its tells the story as that a group of extreme sports people are shooting an advert of them going down a mountain with a avalanche chasing them, while in hiding a international terrorist is in hiding in the same mountain, and they try to kill the commercial workers…..sheer genius.
Conclusion
I conclude that every trailer’s appearance, colour, speed, and sound is effected by its genre. Action movies tend to be fast paced and the sound is loud and is also fast paced, colours in action trailers are usually reds, greens and black. Comedy films tend to have mild paced speed and the music is low and very slow, also it may have weird sounds. Horror films are slow at the beginning and speeds up to flashes, this behaviour continues in the music, the type of music is also classical most of the time, the colours in horror trailers are mostly dark like blacks and greys. ‘Chick Flicks’ are usually mild in speed and now mostly have pop songs as a backing track; colours in these films are pastels and whites. Romance films are slow, just like the music and the colours are lavished in reds and pinks. Thus each type of film has its own set perimeters and most films follow them appropriately; however there are films that avoid the set rules. All the trailers above obey the set rules by the type of the film.
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