Research into Teaser Trailers

Inception (2010)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Green screen, age restriction and suitable audience.

Shift into black then Warner Bros logo fades in, monochrome colours giving no light feel to the movie reflecting dark elements.

Logo increases in size, closer to audience to add dramatic effect.

Information on makers of the film, black background with white capitalised text shown in centre pulsating forward before fading again to black.

Close up upon a spinning object, shows the pace.

Back to previous text format.

Extreme long panning shot of a large city.

Medium close up of first character, most likely to be the protagonist/antagonist, worried look on his face.

Dramatic scene, 3 males leaving helicopter. Action/Thriller genre is reflected, lack of a woman's presence to show a more dominant group.

Text.

Close up on a glass of water, defying gravity with the liquid tilted and shaking, possible sign of earthquake and trouble.

Using the same text but amongst a CGI effect of city, with a slight rotation.

Night scene, medium shot of previous male, kept in the same camera view.

Action scene within a corridor, shot reverse shot of two fighting males.

Surreal lack of gravity shown again, signs of a fantasy world.

Theme of water shown again, man fully clothed gasping out the bath.

Dark lighting, expression not clearly shown.

Back to corridor scene, constant cuts to this scene.

Extreme close up on clock, shows the speed and intensity of time.

Waking up 'dreams' seem significant.

Cityscape, free fast moving camera zooming out higher to see fuller picture.

Reveals the name of the movie incorporated into buildings, eventually showing it to be a maze.

'Summer 2010' advertising the release date of the movie.

Music reflects a Thriller genre that creates suspense and builds tension of the audience.The thudding sound increases in pace throughout the trailer, 'swoosh' sounds matches the sound of waves crashing and fits with the scene transitions made in the trailer.

127 Hours (2010)

Directed: Danny Boyle

Extreme long shot of Grand Canyon, bright blue sky against the oranges of the rock, the audience can see the vast expanse of land.

As like curtains opening we are introduced to the film with a cyclist bursting through, only back view shown. Reference to an action/adventure genre.

Split screen filming different sections, medium close up of character's face, still not in full view and undercover. Heat is shown with the amount of light and the props of sunglasses.

Using the split screen we are then shown the directors name with notes of his previous accomplishments. White upon the orange rock, fast moving biycycle, one man featured.

Series of short clips of Danny Boyle's previous work including Slumdog Millionaire, highly praised director will then attract audiences.

Longshot on man on bike, quick transition from shot to shot including split screen, continuity of location.

3 way split screen, black middle section with white text, double shot of the one character.

Shift to a handy-cam as character falls, foreshadowing later injury with hand, positive representation of the character, showing him not to be the problem but a possible victim.

White text changing view of theme, bright light, match on action shot, merging into a bottle of water, bright blue colour as seen previously in the sky.

Extreme close up inside a bottle of water, strong aqua colour, bubbles reaching further towards the audience, sucking them in.

Intertextual use of other media technologies, as character is seen taking an image with two women, male seems to be confident and relaxed in the surrounding.

Close up, tracking shot following along the rocks, hand as main focus.

Worms eye view from below, looking up towards the light, with three shown characters along a cervasse. Male appears more confident and two women seen as a pair distancing themselves.

Water significance, continuity of colour, two characters causing a splash that can be compared to the water bottle sequence.

Black screen, white capitals 'Based upon...' attracts readers with reference to true events which allows the audience to see reality within the film.

Split screen, long shot showing full body on left half and a close up, again on his hand on the left. Both filmed from behind.

Close up with face and features in focus while hand seen out of focus, reaction seems to be most important and shows worry and a change in feel and foreshadows an unsafe outcome. He appears vunerable.

Filmed from above looking down upon the subject. Pan out from close up, showing the vast size of the locationa nd trouble he is in.

Actor cannot be seen and is now out of shot as immersed within the shadows and nature.

Splite screen into 3, breaking up text and full image.

Advertisement to direct audience towards visiting the website for details.

Breaking Dawn (2011)

Directed: Bill Condon

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Directed: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud

As this is a childrens film the teaser trailer shown is relatively simple and with comedic elements to appeal to younger children. It shows a group of 4 creatures, with alien like qualities whoch shows the fantasy and unrealistic nature of the movie. The music used is diagetic from the 4 characters all sequenced to sing in harmony, with notes added as the trailer progresses. This whistle blower comes forward out the screen to jump out at the audience but with comedy values not to scare the audience. The characters are featured in a white room which then excentuates the bright yellow colour of their bodies and all seen in uniform. Then a dramtic punch by one of them causes there to be silence from the aliens. A large '2' is shown to adertise it to be the sequel, that would allow the audience to relate it to the previous film.

Larry Crowne (2011)

Directed: Tom Hanks

Larry Crowne is an indie film about a middle-aged man who loses his job. He then re-joins college to change his life.

Larry goes to East Valley Community College, to re-invent himself. The music in the background switches to a very upbeat track (Hey, soul sister-Train) and the lighting is very bright, this connotes that things are looking up. This music starts straight after he gets fired from his job, this is no coincidence.

He then meets a young lady from his college who helps him to change his appearance and pick him up from his recent disappointment at his work. He thinks changing his appearance my help him to get his new Public Speech teacher.

There are a lot of shots with no dialect mainly just shots of people's expressions and actions. This is to get a better effect on the audience as well as show how much Larry Crowne has an affect on people.

There is a lot of changing angles and mainly close ups of the expressions on people's face. This is apparent mainly in Julia Robert's character whenever Larry(Hanks) is talking. It is obvious to the audience that Hanks and Roberts will get together at the end of the film.

The fast transitions between shots and upbeat track shows that this is a feel good film and this is very apparent from the expressions. The trailer ends with a long shot of Hanks and Roberts on his scooter, an adorable end to the this cute and simplistic trailer.

What I enjoyed about this trailer was the change of shots and angles and how it went from light to dark very quickly to add more of a sense of time flying by and how quickly they (Hanks and Roberts) started to like each other. I learnt that to show time going by quickly it is good to have lots of short shots and moving from light to dark. However, I also learnt that music can help the audience understand what genre the film is.