Thursday, 8 January 2015

Class Trailer Review (1)

Name of film: Pusher Trilogy                                      
Year released: 2005
Genre of trailer: Horror/Crime                                  
Mark (After viewing): 8/10


The Pusher Trilogy has a fast paced trailer which includes montages and highlights of the film to instantly grab the audience’s attention. I think this works really well next to the genre of the film as it promotes the film in a quick simplistic way, making the audience want to see more.
There are many aspects of the trailer that I think I could include within my own, the main factor being the overall speed of the trailer. By slowly increasing the speed of the montages towards the end, it creates tension and makes the audience curious as to what the rest of the film is. In relation to this, by adding dramatic music in sync with the scenes it creates a bigger impact making the trailer has gained the audiences full acknowledgment. They have also used quotes from many different organisations and reviewers to help influence the audience into wanting to see the film that “everyone is talking about.” I think this is a very good technique as it subconsciously makes the audience think that it is going to be a good film. This is used a lot in modern film trailers and is almost always successful.
On the other hand I think some aspects of this trailer might not have been so successful; the main one being the montages might have been a bit too quick. Towards the end the montage speeds up so quick that you can hardly see what is happening. Although this was probably done on purpose it might defer the audience away from wanting to watch the film. This also ties in with that I think the overall trailer doesn’t show enough key plot bits; making the trailer vague and not definitive of what the main story-line is.
The trailers average score from the class was 8. This was lower than my original personal score of 9 but generally overall I think everyone agreed that it is a well suited trailer for the niche genre and it works really well to attract the target demographic.

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