- Inglorious Basterds Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ
Througout the clip you can clearly see this film is about the second world war, with old army uniforms, moustaches, the 'Nazi' sign, the types of weapons and also a scene with Hitler, the iconography is obvious.
You instantly know the film will contain bloody violence as words such as 'exterminate' are splattered in blood on a white background in little clips throughout the trailer, this clearly connotes the genre to the audience.
The clip starts off at a reasonably fast pace and only gets faster throughout, as the rock music in the background gets angryer and angryer you instantly tell and it also connotes straight to the point that this is an action packed, bloody, violent film.
Also we are introduced to the characters, the shots specify who the main characters our, Brad Pitt the main chief, is shown by low angle shots and close ups, this expresses to the audience the power and respect of the character, also the amount of times he is shown compared to the other characters shows us he is the main man.
One clip shows a 'stereotypical' blonde haired, good looking woman shooting a gun, this could suggest to the audience that there also may be some war time romance in the film, making it a hybrid as it has a few possible types of genre.
The brand of the Nazi sign on a mans forhead again anchors the point across to the audience that its WW2.
Brad Pitt has a scar on his neck, clearly showed to the audience. This could be a signifier to the audience that hes an experienced soldier and thats why he is taking control of his army, this is also backed up by the low angle shots of him to signify to the audience that he is the boss and hes powerful.
As we get further and further through the clip the the music and the pace of the film gets faster and faster, bullets get fired, explosions and also the rate at which the blood gets splattered onto the white backgrounds also becomes faster and the sound is louder.
Close up of a blonde lady firing a gun signifies to the audience that she also might be a main character in the film.
A visual bridge of a man about to get his head smashed by a baseball bat leads to bloody writing being splattered onto the wall.
More and more mid shots of men firing guns point blank at things shows just how much action is going to be in the movie.
The first shot of the trailer is a long shot over many tall sky scrapers, a view of the city. The tall buildings represent to the audience a 'capitalist society' suggesting the film may all be about money and power, big players fighting to get what they want.
The shot then goes from a long shot and zooms into the main character (tom cruise) whilst zooming tension is created as a high pitch noise becomes louder with the zoom.
It zooms out from a close up shot of toms face and a visual bridge is created as he is now in his headquarters talking to a computer. The gadgets are then shown and then this clearly shows that the main character is a spy and this is going to be an action film.
There is many long shots of explosion, fighting, gun battles In civilian areas aswell as in planes and helicopters.
Again tension is created as the music, which plays a big part in making the trailer what it is goes quiet and then a beep which is a countdown to an explosion then is heard, then cuts straightback into the action with an almight explosion.
Tom is seen running and being followed using a tracking shot, this is conventional connotation as it makes the audience believe that he is being followed.
The M:I:3 theme tune is then set off and all the action is shown aswell as audio bridges of characters arguing whilst guns are going off etc etc. This all works together to show that this trailer anchors the action genre of the film.
- A perfect Gateway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqgDgRdv9w
Starts happy and jolly.
Helicopter pilot says 'dead end' in a conversation, this is edited so it becomes louder when he says those to words, signifys to audience something bad is going to happen.
Music changes to more tense as soon as a girl almost slips off the side of a cliff.
Weather changes with music and becomes more tense and stormy, provides a build up.
Objects such as knives being held provide build up to something bad happening, anticipate a murder.
Explodes into action until end.
Music plays a big part, close ups of different charcters.
Dark colours and scenes. Mentally ill woman shown, shaking and pale being interviewed by evil sounding lady, connotes to audience woman may be possessed or something similar.
Cuts to a scene in a bar where everything is red, signifys genre of film to the audience.
Music beomes tense.
Cuts to a scene of bad weather.
Titles instead of voiceover
Lots of fast clips cutting from one to another, lots of action and violence.
Lots of zombies connotes anchors genre to audience.
Music builds up and explodes.
Starts of peaceful, binary opposition, character voiceover tells of death whilst long shot of a lake.
Characters conversations tell audience story of what going to happen, along with shorts clips.
Mentally ill lady adds creepyness, a local, a common strategy used in many horror films locals warn off visitors.
Lots of fast clips of characters shouting and trying to escape.
Straight into action, very simple and clear, target market? Young, not intellectual.
Killer talking to victims in a minibus scene, conversation then links to other scenes in the film which are editing in when shes talk about them.
Explodes into action. Dark colours. Lots of mise-en-scene signifiers, very clear of genre.
Very british.
- Friday the 13th.
http://uk.filmtrailer.com/cinema/search-30/?q=friday+the+13th
Long shot of calm peaceful lake, binary opposition, charcters voice from another scene edited on top ' A young boy drowned here'.
Young teenagers on a trip.
Local warns them off, typical method used in horror films.
Cuts straight into dark and spooky scene.
Straight into action, creates a jumpy atmosphere.
Mise-end-scene, axes, knives etc close up shots.
Creepy music and thunder storm, very dark, anchorage.
Shoch scene of woman screaming in lorry, shocks both character and audience.
No voice over, clips tell story.
Short clips and fast pace.
Dusky,desert setting.
Voiceover intros story.
Somewhat tense atmosphere created.
Binary opposition of little granny who turns out to be possessed. Attacks lady and trailer explodes into action.
Vampires shown, tells audience genre, storyline etc
Digetic/non digetic sound bridge
Straight into action however with an edge of comedy
Sincere music, emotional, father saying goodbye to his kids, like hes going to die.
Scary music cuts in.
Cuts to blank screen, all audience can do is hear, makes them feel involved like character.
Emotional scary and dark.
- Mum and Dad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihTVF8HyoM
Scene of characters, characters convo explains a little bit about their background, they are adopted.
Close up of girl getting drugged wakes up In another scene, saw like feel to it, trapped in a mercy room.Interetual reference?
Sexual abuse, imprisonment and torture, social realism/horror genre?
- The Amityville Horror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcEbHag-nsk
Different news reports edited into one tell audience what is going on. 'Hear voices' mentally ill person, somebody possessed, paranormal??
See headlines, cuts from one to another pace picks up.
Fast tense music.
Old style quality of film
Images shoot out with screeching music, jumpy and scary (horror)
Ghostly child/ passed times? Haunted?
Long shot of a grim looking house, music gets louder, tension builds, house like a bomb about to go off.
Thunder and lightning adds to the horror.
Lots of shots
Mise-en-scene, axes knives.
Violent scenes.
Anchors horror.
- Halloween 2007 trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kww5KSqzV9U
Immediately links audience in with voiceover 'Inside every one of us'.
Shot of baseball bat murder.
Shot of knives, mise-en-scene, slasher
girly face turns into skull, signifys death.
Famous halloween music.
'Cycopath' mentioned by newsreader.
Pace picks up.
- Freddy Vs Jason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPd5XLtzEVA
titles – 1980 fear born. 1984 – nightmare began
Background music howly wind
2003 – ledgends together
Typical childs voice gives warning of death, spooky and unusual.
Lots of shots of knives provides anchorage.
- American Physcho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVNmgHKweU
Upper class man has graphic conversation, unusual, binary opposition.
Clip of man walking down dark alley with blue tinted light, signifier.
Jolly background music
Cuts from a happy clip to an extremely violent and graphic clips throughout trailer
Like a physchos mind? Schitzophrenic.
Man peels face off, two personalitys?
Shots of man going insane- looks like hes becoming a monster.
- Black Christmas (remake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2qxzJWKXs
Voiceover Intro to story, what happened before. Along with a build up using music.
Instant shot of blood- woman screaming
Cut up bodys, put in oven, cannibalism. Gory.
I will be home for christmas note, music picks up with fast schreech pace.
Prison guard killed, anchors escaped killer.
Close up of feet walking in a straight direction wanting to get to a certain something fast, home?
Kills, shots of knives and gore. Anchors genre.
Same scenrio repeated, somebodys killed, others dont know whats going on and repeat throughout trailer.
- Friday the 13th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEgahzAwOy8
Light at the end of a tunnel, straight into a connotation of death.
Man walks upto light, jumpy and is stabbed to death (slasher/horror)
Voiceover, killer? As he counts up the number of killings.
Pace gets faster after each kill
Ends with a woman screaming.
Starts with creep anomynous phonecall
Howly, dusky wind in the background.
Phonecall interacts- realises hes wanting her, not flirting.
News reports of murder, voice over begins in creepy voice.
Another build up and then more action.
Phone rings
Survivor is victim again
Close up shot of knives, signifier.
Build up and then fast cut violent action shots.
Fast pace cuts.
