Jurassic Park is known all over the world, and the director is also international renowned as a brilliant director. The film is a squeal in a line of Jurassic Park movies. There are also some well renowned actors that star in this movie to: Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, and Julianne Moore. The trailer lasts for 2 minutes 45 seconds. This film is a action/adventure film. This film reminds me of the first one “Jurassic Park” this is because each of the films revolve around dinosaurs. The film seems to be targeting a wide range of audience from around 12-30.
GI Jane is about a woman who is added to a course to join America’s elite fighting force and become a U.S Navy seal. She is the first woman ever to go and take the course to try and to join the U.S Navy seals. This trailers cuts very quickly from one part of the film to the other. This film stars Debbie Moore in the leading role. She plays a US marine. This film is about a woman in a man’s world trying to compete with men as an equal. This trailer lasts for 1 minute 40 seconds. The unique selling point for this trailer would be that it is about women’s rights, which could bring in a big audience of women. The target audience for this film would be many woman between the ages of 15-30.
The first few seconds of each of these trailers have to capture the attention of the audience otherwise the trailer has failed at what it has set out to do. In Jurassic Park the trailer grabs the attention of the audience, it starts with just a black background, and animals sounds. Then as the colour comes into the screen a large footstep can be heard in the background. In the first few seconds of GI Jane there is an American flag and has very, it also give us information from a voice over and a document that the training course to find U.S Navy seals is the hardest training in the world.
Dinosaurs and Archaeologists play the main role parts in Jurassic Park. The roles of the main Archaeologist is played by Jeff Goldblum, he is a well renown actor and has stared in many films. A unique selling point for this film is that its director is Steven Speilburg. Steven Speilburg is a massive figure in the film industry, and has made some of the biggest films ever. Twenty of his films starred in the “Hundred top films of all time”. Steven Speilburg has won Two best director Oscars and just one of his films “ Schindler’s list” collected a total of 7 Oscars.
In GI Jane the main characters are US Navy Marines and Army People. Debbie Moore plays GI Jane. This film is action/ adventure genre, and represents a woman in a mans world, being pushed down and made to work harder then the other recruits just because she is a woman. This film will attract many females in this woman’s position such as woman in a man’s job e.g. A woman builder.
Although these films are in likeness within their genre, they are completely different. One film is about dinosaurs and about how they have escaped (Jurassic Park) the other is about the army and how a woman can compete in a mans world, against other men to try and be equal (GI Jane). These two films use different techniques to capture the audience during the trailer. Jurassic Park using music, which builds up in tempo as the trailer, goes on. GI Jane doesn’t use music very effectively but instead has a voice over explaining things that you may not understand. Jurassic Park flashes things up at the start of the trailer which say “ Something…Has…Survived.” This attracts the audience making them want to know what has survived so they will keep watching the trailer.
