Trailer Analysis

Detachment• 'Detachment' Film Trailer• USP: there’s an academy award winner (Adrien Brody)

starring in a fairly low budget drama film• Sound: piano music with a powerful voiceover at the start

creates a poignant vibe, music builds to a crescendo at the end creating tension

• Intertitles: the font is like a chalk board to show that the film is set in a school, there’s intertitles between shots to show information such as award nominations & and who stars in the film

• Editing: pace of editing increases towards the end as the tempo of the music increases, there’s a shot montage in the middle which creates the sense of a problematic past for the main antagonistic character

• SFX: school bell ringing establishes the location of a school• Narration through shots: the duration of shots decreases

towards the end suggesting that the film starts calmly and then becomes chaotic and problematic portraying the genre of the film which is a drama

Pearl Harbor• 'Pearl Harbor' Film Trailer• USP: epic war drama that combines romance with a memorial

historic event• Sound: orchestral/dramatic music throughout to show that the

film is an epic, magical sounding music at start shows peaceful times before the war, little dialogue off the characters, voiceover throughout in the form of the President’s speech to set the time era and symbolises the power of the American nation in 1941

• Narration through shots: scenes of kissing shows the film is a romance, aerial shots establish the bombing of Pearl Harbour and thus that the film is a war action

• Intertitles: no titles until the end so that the focus is purely on the dramatic scenes and music, intertitles at the end reveal the stars of the film and also the name of the film

• Colour: vintage black and white films are included of Winston Churchill to portray a sense of realism and once again display the time era

• Editing: very fast pace of editing of short clips instead of long shots to reveal alot of dramatic scenes without giving too much away

• SFX: dramatic flash on a vintage camera breaks up alot of shots which symbolises the glamour of the film and how the bombing of Pearl Harbour is famous across the world, noises of plane engines once more portrays the genre of the film which is a war action

Like Crazy• 'Like Crazy' Film Trailer• USP: not a typical RomCom, it’s a realistic take on love• Sound: one song throughout which is a quirky, romantic remake

of an old song which adds to the indie genre of the film, no voiceover narrating the film which steers away from a typical cliché romance trailer, instead character dialogue is used over shots which gives a sense of realism

• Narration through shots: the shots are artistic, gritty and organic which portrays the film genre which is indie romance, most shots are of the 2 central characters to reveal their relationship and how the genre is a romance and the film is focused solely around their relationship

• Intertitles: the name of the film is revealed at the end, awards the film has won are plugged throughout to entice the audience, the stars of the film appear at the end and they specifically label Jennifer Lawrence as an ‘academy award nominee’ despite not having a lead role, #likecrazy appears at the end to appeal to a younger target audience who use social media

• Font & Colours: both are quite romantic and soft pastel orange shades which portrays a sense of peace and love

• Editing: the shots run in chronological order without revealing all of the story in one go, the pace of editing increases towards the end as the shot duration gets shorter to perceive a sense of drama with the couples relationship