Top 5 Teaser Trailers

1. Casino Royale

http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=5m1Cif82lPU Commentary at the being of women in the trailer setting

the scene; then shots with sound from characters from film.

Sci- fi soundtrack building tension; with gun shot sound effects in sync with shot transitions; highlighting how their is lots of action which links and portrays to its audience its genre. Until towards the end its familiar well known brand soundtrack ‘James Bond’ to represent its part of the sequel.

Transition between black and white shots, and colour stand out and make it a different trailer.

No titles until the end where it cleverly mixes the name of the film and the famous 007 together.

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Mamma Mia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq918-rfkiU Minimal narrative; story told through teaser by titles; giving

a hint to the audience and setting the scene on the film, however not revealing too much plot.

Music is well known soundtrack related to the film so audience know it part of a synergy; of the band, theatre production and the film. This also represents the genre along with the shots; of a light hearted cheery film.

Titles are simple and continue throughout whole teaser; linking shots and effectively minimising narrative.

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Seven pounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W94iiam-D94 Narrative – comparison with God at the beginning,

throughout the trailer there are comments about him as taking control and planning peoples lives. This sets his behaviour and the mood of the teaser.

Titles are throughout the teaser and help support the narrative and add further suspense and interest by the audience.

Music increases to give the narrative a space and decreases to let narrative have the focus. Then when title comes up at the end the music becomes far more dramatic.

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Goodfellas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCjlwFP-vk Underlying classical song both previous to the gunshot and

after. Becomes softer and more upbeat throughout even though the mood of the characters become worse.

Narrative is all about the start of this characters life, what he was aspiring to and what he wanted to achieve. It shows the lies and deceit that comes attached to being a ‘gangster’. Gun shot half way through breaks up his story from childhood to adulthood.

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The Hangover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HlHgcGMwOE The music is upbeat and has a quick tempo, changes with

an introduction of a character. There are a couple of titles that are animated and help tell

the story of the narrative. Genre is comedy which is highlighted within the teaser by a

couple of scenes. The narrative starts off as a phonecall between two

characters and when the music is introduced it changes to the speech of the characters through the scenes being portrayed.

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