Further Analysis of Trailers by Tolu and Daisy

After watching the Trailer for ‘Bend it like Beckham’, I decide to watch it without the any sound. In doing this, I was made aware of the importance to sound to a trailer. It creates the entire atmosphere and without the voice over the number of shots put together to create a montage like effect becomes much more obvious and without the sound the story almost does not make sense this was the case with the She's the man trailer. For the vast majority of the trailer theres were differnt shots as the stroy jumped from shot to shot and althought the genre was abvious as it is a complicated story, the sound was required to fully understand what was going on. But in the case of ‘Bend it like Beckham’, without the sound, the themes present in the film and the general story line is very obvious. This is because there are lots of shots that make up the teaser trailer, it hints at several different potential endings and story lines but never really make a point of telling the story in a chronological order thus making it challenging to understand without any sound aiding the telling of the story. The employment of little captions as shown bellow also aid the audience in understanding the story without the music. This is a technique we may employ when creating our video.



But for ‘Bend it like Beckham’, the shots of the the girls playing football got the whole idea of what the movie is about across to the audience even when there was no sound. We are hoping to achieve this effect. We want our trailer to introduce the spot and the story line to the point where watching it without sound would not hinder the audiences’ understanding of what was going on.

After deciding on our scenes we observed went back to observing the trailer for ‘Bend it like Beckham’ to once again analyse how the trailers are put together and how the shots are adapted to form a teaser trailer. Throughout the trailer we counted more than 100 different shots keeping the audience interested and showing lots of different parts of the film without being giving away the story. The story was told primarily using a voice over which was very effective. We hope to incorporate these things we have learned in developing our scenes into shots in the creation process of our trailer.