Media Studies - Analysis of DVD Cover and Film Trailer Example

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Analysis of DVD cover and film trailer

The film I will be analysing is Memoirs of a Geisha. The film certificate for the film is people aged twelve and up. The film genre is a romance/drama film. This film can be seen by either female or male but mostly female because the people who star in the film are mostly female actresses.

        The audience would expect to see a film about a little girl who grew to become Japans most celebrated Geisha in the 1920’s. They would also expect to see three main female characters in the film. The film is taken from a novel. People who have read the novel would like to see this film because I think they would like to see the film version of the novel. They would also like to see this film because the film trailer makes the audience want to see the film by playing short exciting clips on television for advertisement of the film.

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            There are three main stars in this film. The main stars are Chiyo/Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang), Hatsumomo (Li Gong) and Mahema (Michelle Yeoh).  Most of the people in this film are female but there are some male. The soundtrack used in trailer is the sound of drums and Japanese classical music. Music in a trailer makes the trailer seem more exciting. In the beginning of the trailer there is a narrator speaking, the main character is speaking as the narrator in the trailer. The trailer then shows different quick clips from the movie along with ...

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