The document analyzes and summarizes key scenes and elements from the movie trailer for Cloverfield. It discusses how the trailer uses an amateur, documentary-style of filming to set an uneasy and realistic tone. It also discusses how various scenes foreshadow impending events and create a sense of confusion, vulnerability and fear for the characters and audience. Elements like loud music, blackened cameras and news reports help establish the plot and show that something large-scale is going wrong.

1. Cloverfield

2. At the start of the movie
trailer the institutions have
been altered, to hep create
the documentary feel, this
helps to connote a more real
feel to the movie and to set
the tone for the whole trailer.
The first scene begins
with as a equilibrium
which gives the audience
a sense of enigma to
what the movie will be
about .
The filming is very
amateur and is filmed as
if a character is filming it.
This helps to add to the
realistic tone of the
trailer. To also give the
trailer a more realistic
feel the scene is full of
close ups of different
characters which also
enforces the amateur
filming

3. At this point of the trailer
the filming is still very
disorientated, this also
begins to become a clue
for the audience that
there is a sense of
disruption coming.
Due to the loud music in
this scene it gives the
sense of vulnerability and
n uneasy tone.
In this part of the trailer
the characters are saying
goodbye to a friend, little
do they know this is
foreshadowing a
completely different to
say goodbye. This helps
.
to create a sense of
sadness as the audience
get to see the friendship
among the group .
Then ironically the other
characters ask the man
who's leaving how they
will survive without him,
this again is
foreshadowing events to
come.

4. The first disruption of the
trailer immediately raises
enigma among the
audience, ‘earthquake?’.
The editing of this part has
been adapted as its yet
again being filmed by an
amateur.
The camera then blackens
which helps to enforce that
sense of vulnerability as
another sense has been
taken away.
Close ups show the
confusion on the
characters faces to show
confusion and fear.
Sirens and car alarms
begin to go off in the
background, showing
things are going wrong.
The realisation of the
event is shown o the news
to again create the realistic
feel but to till help the
audience to understand
the plot. Also tells you here
the film takes place.

5. This I the part of the trailer
where the audience et the
evidence and the realization
of how big this problem is,
A zoom is used in order to
reinforce the realistic,
documentary feel.
Continuous cuts to
help make the trailer
feel as real as
possible.

7. The thrown statue of
liberty's head can
represent justice and
liberty is gone, the
people no longer have
freedom. This also
helps to link in with the
movie poster as that
featured the headless
statue of liberty and
solves the enigma of
the poster.