VIDEO: This is a trailer for the film 'The Phantom' which is released in 1996. Because it's quite dated the special effects are quite unrealistic. It opens, as most trailers do, with a green screen stating that it is allowed to be publicly viewed and released, which is followed by the company logo. This establishes who it is made by, and lets the viewer see where they can find out more about the company behind the video, which they are hopefully interested in. The opening shot is quite dark which could be misleading about the genre of the film. It is set in a jungle type area, which immediately establishes where the main parts of the movie will be set. It looks like a group of explorers which are looking for something in particular which could be the main storyline. However, the next shot then moves on to two people on motorbikes jumping over a hedge. To me, the style of the hedge and what you can of the building suggests that it is in quite a posh, or royal, area. The next few shots then include a man, who I assume to be inside the building, pacing with some old fashioned equipment, an explosion which is outside, and some stained glass windows being broken from what looks like an explosion outside. Then there are a few fast snappy shots with large fades which link together the story. There are lots of skulls prominent in the next 20 seconds of the trailer, which, for me, misrepresents the genre of the trailer. Because I did a YouTube search to find superhero movies from the 90's, I at first doubted my search. Up until 00:35 there are no shots of the 'superhero' which makes the film look more like a Science Fiction or Action Adventure genre film rather than a Superhero Adventure film. Also, for the whole of the trailer the lighting is very dark, which suggests that it is a lot more sinister than most superhero films. Once the superhero is introduced, there is a temporal text which shows when the viewer can expect to see the movie in cinemas. Also from then onwards the lighting gets a brighter, and the shots become faster paced. There is also lots of fire and flashes involved, which brightens up the screen a lot more as well. The skull is also still prominent, and there are many adjectives which flash across the screen to help explain the trailer and make it more appealing to viewers. There also appears to many stunts going on, probably to make the film see more high class and Hollywood style, such as a truck falling off a bridge, several explosions, a car chase and abseiling down a lift. In addition to this there are several shots of the protagonist avoiding any immediate danger, which could endanger his life. At 1:14 the main antagonist is introduced, wearing a black eye mask which immediately makes him look like the 'baddy' of the movie. The trailer ends with some fonts being stretched across the screen showing the date of release and the title against a black screen. I'm not a big fan of this trailer, as I don't think that it shows a story particularly well. I think that it is very misleading, as the main character of the film is not introduced until about one third of the way through the trailer. I don't think that we will take much from this trailer into our own, apart from including a wide range of special effects in our trailer to help draw in our audience.
Saturday, 5 November 2011
Phantom (Mel)
VIDEO: This is a trailer for the film 'The Phantom' which is released in 1996. Because it's quite dated the special effects are quite unrealistic. It opens, as most trailers do, with a green screen stating that it is allowed to be publicly viewed and released, which is followed by the company logo. This establishes who it is made by, and lets the viewer see where they can find out more about the company behind the video, which they are hopefully interested in. The opening shot is quite dark which could be misleading about the genre of the film. It is set in a jungle type area, which immediately establishes where the main parts of the movie will be set. It looks like a group of explorers which are looking for something in particular which could be the main storyline. However, the next shot then moves on to two people on motorbikes jumping over a hedge. To me, the style of the hedge and what you can of the building suggests that it is in quite a posh, or royal, area. The next few shots then include a man, who I assume to be inside the building, pacing with some old fashioned equipment, an explosion which is outside, and some stained glass windows being broken from what looks like an explosion outside. Then there are a few fast snappy shots with large fades which link together the story. There are lots of skulls prominent in the next 20 seconds of the trailer, which, for me, misrepresents the genre of the trailer. Because I did a YouTube search to find superhero movies from the 90's, I at first doubted my search. Up until 00:35 there are no shots of the 'superhero' which makes the film look more like a Science Fiction or Action Adventure genre film rather than a Superhero Adventure film. Also, for the whole of the trailer the lighting is very dark, which suggests that it is a lot more sinister than most superhero films. Once the superhero is introduced, there is a temporal text which shows when the viewer can expect to see the movie in cinemas. Also from then onwards the lighting gets a brighter, and the shots become faster paced. There is also lots of fire and flashes involved, which brightens up the screen a lot more as well. The skull is also still prominent, and there are many adjectives which flash across the screen to help explain the trailer and make it more appealing to viewers. There also appears to many stunts going on, probably to make the film see more high class and Hollywood style, such as a truck falling off a bridge, several explosions, a car chase and abseiling down a lift. In addition to this there are several shots of the protagonist avoiding any immediate danger, which could endanger his life. At 1:14 the main antagonist is introduced, wearing a black eye mask which immediately makes him look like the 'baddy' of the movie. The trailer ends with some fonts being stretched across the screen showing the date of release and the title against a black screen. I'm not a big fan of this trailer, as I don't think that it shows a story particularly well. I think that it is very misleading, as the main character of the film is not introduced until about one third of the way through the trailer. I don't think that we will take much from this trailer into our own, apart from including a wide range of special effects in our trailer to help draw in our audience.
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