Analysis of Trailer for Wimbledon by Tolu

Wimbledon is a traielr by Working Titiles. It manages it manages to incorporate 4 genres into the trailer. These include drama, sport, romance and comedy. In doing this, they are able to attract a wide range of audience including comedy and romance lovers. in order to create a sucessful trailer which would attract vast audiences, we need to take into considerstion incorporating more than one genre into the trailer. There is voice over for the vast majority of the trailer. This voice basically tells the synopsis of the story enabling the audience to understand and pick up on the genereal gyst of the story. It is important that the audience are made aware of what is going on without giving the entire story away. The romantic and sporting element of the genre are put together usings very fast editing. A montage is put together switching between them playing tennis and shots of them in a loving embrace. This is a technique we might use towards the end of our trailer as it makes the audience curious as to where and how the link between tennis and their love is established durinig the film. The trailer is just over 2 minutes long and for most trailers that means that it can be difficult to sustain my interest as an audience. This has been the case with trailers that only focus on one particular genre thus making it more important for our trailer to portray more than one genre and to do so in an interesting manner with a good range of shots.

The incorporation of captions to show tell the story and show the contrast between the two players without the the use of the voice over is another effective way of getting the story across to an audience. Also these shots introduce and focuses on the two famous actors that are in the movie thus making the trailer more appealing to thier fans.

This kind of close up shot of the ball incorporated in the trailer adds a sense of reality to the sport and pace to the trailer arousing interest from the

audience. The shot of them embracing also adds incorporates the romantic genre in the trailer attracting a wider range of audience.

The sound is initally an upbeat popular music track that cuts out at times to make way for small snipets of dialougue and diagetic sounds of the tennis ball being hit. This music highlights the lighthearted, comic and romantic nature of the film.

By Daisy

Analysing 'she’s the man Film Trailer '

We have analysed ‘She’s the Man’ Film Trailer as it gives us some ideas how to match a story up with an obsession of sport for example football and tye in romance. The genre is romantic, comedy. It starts of with some non diagetic contrapuntal orchestral music which creates an automatic mood. The idea that an elegant women will appear, however our imagination changes as viola flings the doors open, the sound of the door is enhanced showing her masculinity.. We presume that she will be dressing up as her brother and it appears to be very believable this also grabs our attention as its quite funny, thus the narrative is clear here. The characters are represented in a stereotypical way, there is a hot guy and a pretty blonde girl this catches the conventions of reality and is always popular.
There is voice over throughout this Trailer this creates a narrative feeling. The editing is clearly fast montage, this helps with the narrative, and keeps the audience on thier toes! We can see her character through her clothes and her manner through out the clip we know what type of person she is imitating. The actor’s names appear on the screen by flashing up this can automatically persuade an audience to go and watch the film. Names such as Amanda Bynes can automatically interest us. This is a really good trailer as it leaves us wanted to watch the film.

Analyisis of Trailers with Screenshots by Tolu

To help us with producing the best quality trailer, Daisy and I have been watching film trailers within the same genre. This screenshot is from She's the man. This trailer is similar in genre with ours, we are hoping to make use of team shots like this at the begining of our trailer to create a idea of an equlibrium.

Another trailer we looked at was Bend it Like Beckham. At the begining of the trailer there were a series of really fast and snappy shots of the characters playing football and kicking a ball form a low and angle and over the sholer shots and close ups. This intoduces the sporting genre of the film in a very effective manner making it much more exciting and grasps the audience's attention .

Shots of match action is also an important element within the trailers that we looked at. Both trailers which include Bend it like Beckham and She's the Man both incorporate match action into their trailer. We think this makes the trailer much more exciting and continues the introduction to the featured sport. this screenshot is from She's the Man. It is a good example of the kind of shots we could incorporate.

By Daisy

At First we need to analyse a couple of relevant film trailers to give us some ideas for our own. Therefore we analysed 'Bend it Like Beckham'. This has a typical romantic sports genre. The 2 minutes of film catch our interest straightaway. It starts of with the diagetic sound of the football being hit enhanced so that we can see the automatic focus on the idea of football being A essential roll to the film . We can see that the dominance is focusing on women in football so its quite controversial for a film. The shots are fast and change to the beat, we can see that there is cross cutting and montage as it switches between two stories the idea of the Indian family and the English family, and we can guess that they are related through the fast cuts. The music throughout is fast however it changes as we can see that she is going to fall in love, it is parallel to the story. As the music changes as does the film, there are titles that flash in. for me however I feel as though the whole story is revealed to us as we see the Indian girl kissing the coach and escaping her regiments of society, in our film we will leave it for interpretation.

By Daisy

For me a trailer is Trailer consists of a series of selected shots from the film being advertised usually in cinemas or on TV. Since the purpose of the trailer is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or otherwise noteworthy parts of the film these are mostly not com,pleted narrtaive clues and dont spoil the climax. They should therefor leave you on suspense. A trailer has to achieve that in less than two and a half minutes, the maximum length allowed by theaters.