G324 research

2. Bridesmaids Trailer
Sound
• Starts off with happy sounding music
• Music stops when important dialogue
begins
• Tempo of music increases when the Editing
mood changes • Shot/reverse shot
• Sound effects e.g. Gates, breaks • Music beat matched
screeching up with titles
• Music stops and starts to integrate • fast paced during
with dialogue phone conversations
• Rock style music, fast tempo Camera Angles
• pan across the cityscape
• cross cutting e.g. during
conversations between
bridesmaids
• fast pace editing to different
locations and events as music
speeds up

3. Mise-en-Scene Plot
• Setting and props -
homes, aeroplane, • Love and romance
• Lighting and colour – high key • Friendship (role, duties)
lighting • Relationships tested
• Costume, hair and makeup – • Title – ‘out of her depth’
shows different personalities and • Mix (clash) of personalities
styles of the characters • Speed of clips increasing –
• Positioning of characters/objects chaos?
within a frame – girls centre of
attention in this film
• Facial expressions and body
language
• Iconography –
characters, costume, music
. These are what tell us
that the genre is a
comedy/chick flick

4. On Stranger Tides Trailer
Sound
• String music – soft during intro Editing
• Builds up suspense – change in • SFX – genre
tempo Camera Angles • Pace – with music
• Monologue from main • Gradual zoom – intro • Black outs
character – talking to audience • CU – faces of characters between shots
• Signature theme tune during dialogue • Matched cuts
• Staccato – change in mood • Over shoulder shot • Shot/reverse shot
• Pause for response • Action shots
• Sounds of action – swords, guns • Landscapes at
• Titles and clips times with beat beginning
• Dialogue from other characters • Low angle shot (black
beard)

5. Plot
• Intro – tells audience
about the ‘adventure’ of
the film
• What to expect – VO
• Romantic sub-plot –
woman featured.
Mise-en-scene
• Costume, hair, makeup –
signature style
• Lighting and colour – dark,
mystery? Lights up with SFX
• Can tell who main character is –
focus of frame
• Setting – sea, boat
• Props – weapons – swords, guns
etc.

6. Back to the Future Trailer
Sound
• Footsteps, knocking
• Mechanical sounds of car
door opening
• Repetitive, slow electronic
music at start
• Voice from car – woman
• Sound effects of pressing Camera Angles Editing
buttons • BCU – shoes, hand, eyes, • Cross-cutting
• Character vocal objects and buttons • Matched with sound and
• Build up to different music within high – tech car music
- brass • Smooth pan across
inside of car

7. Plot/narrative
• Time travel
• Sci-fi – iconography
• Makes audience guess
who the main character
is, what will happen and
his significance?
Mise-en-scene
• Costume – main character. Cool
appearance
• Props – machine, high tech, lights
(iconography)
• Lighting – flashes of light within
sections of car
• Don’t see much of outside setting
• Car is focus of the film