Paul teaser trailer analysis
Establishing
- Universal logo
- Working title logo
- Calm relaxing music
- Simon pegg and nick frost closeups,mid shots,defining the charcters
- Intertitles telling us a little about them 'They're best buddies'
Contextualised
- Begins when the crash happens and the intertitle saying 'Him' appears.Who is him?
- Main character introduced
Anticipation
- Starts when nick faintsas music is more upbeat and mdoern
- Threatning situation
Begins to show other main characters,Jason bateman,Sigourney weaver etc, enticing a range of audiences- Shows action clips,explosions,chases
- Fast edits not to give too much of the action scenes in the movie away.
- Ends with a humorous clip where they are seen trying to blend Paul in with the other humans.This defines the movie as a comedy dor the audience, a little bit of a taster as what kind of jokes the movie is likely to contain.
- Last few intertitles is the release date february 2011, this also has the institution logos at the bottom.
Good breakdown. You have identified many elements of the trailer. However, you now need to take this to the next level and think about how this attracts an audience and what kind of audience it would attract.
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