The document provides an analysis of three film trailers. It summarizes key elements of each trailer, including soundtrack/music choices, lack of dialogue or plot details to generate intrigue, font and color scheme connections to the film's time period and tone, increasing tension through editing pace and sound effects, and establishing unique selling points like the director, cast, or premise to draw in viewers. Overall, the analyses examine how trailers craft suspense, set a mood, and tease just enough to make audiences want to learn more without giving away the full story.

1. An analysis of three of my favourite film trailers

3. • I chose this trailer because I think that the soundtrack
works well in the trailer to deliver the tone of the film.
It’s sombre, but there’s a passion that the view can
feel. Llewyn Davis’ life looks like it would be a dramatic
one.
• The viewer is left to interpret the story from the short
snippets of dialogue from the film, with no intertitles
giving away the plot, only the directors, the awards the
film has won and the A list cast members, which are
the film’s unique selling points.
• The font style is simplistic, reminiscent of titles on
record covers of the time of the film, which highlights
the musical undertone of the film to be an important
part of it.

4. • The trailer is edited so that when dialogue is spoken,
you can either see the person start saying it or finish
saying it, with assorted clips that are relevant to the
line. For example “Explain the cat” is a line that we
see spoken by the woman you said it, but the
response to it is over a montage of clips from the film
featuring the cat.
• The titles and the film itself are washed out in colour,
as it makes the film look older, like it was shot at the
time in 1960s America.
• There are no noticeable sound effects in the trailer,
apart from maybe the sound of the car in the opening
shot, which is to make the whole trailer seem more
realistic and relatable.

6. • I chose this trailer because it left me with a great
feeling of excitement. The tension that the editor
was able to create was enough to give me
goosebumps.
• The film’s unique selling points are that it is
directed by a well-known, award winning director,
Clint Eastwood and it stars Bradley Cooper.
• The font style is supposed to be in the same style
of writing as you might find on a national statue or
monument. This is clever, because the subject
and protagonist of the film, who was a real person,
is shown as a kind of national hero.

7. • Throughout the trailer, there is a drone like sound that
begins quiet, but as the trailer plays out and the stakes
rise in the sniper’s situation in which he must chose
whether to shoot a child he suspects might be carrying
a bomb, it grows louder. This is something that the
viewer may not even consciously notice at first, but it
can’t help but put them on edge. The lack of use of
music makes the events of the trailer relatable and
more realistic.
• The general colour scheme of the trailer is quite bleak.
This is because the director didn’t want it to be
misconstrued as just another glorifying war film, but a
tragic tale of one man’s struggle. It makes the whole
aspect of the protagonist’s life grittier.

8. • In order to increase the tension of the trailer
gradually throughout, the pace-of-edit gets faster
towards the end.
• The general colour scheme of the trailer is quite
bleak. This is because the director didn’t want it to
be misconstrued as just another glorifying war
film, but a tragic tale of one man’s struggle. It
makes the whole aspect of the protagonist’s life
grittier.

10. • The reason I chose this trailer is because it was
very unique to the other horror trailers that I’ve
seen, as it doesn’t have any dialogue or music.
• The sound effects in the background consist
mainly of one thing an alarm-like noise that comes
in singular bursts. The siren also resembles a
human scream, which fills the viewer with a sense
of danger.
• The films unique selling point is that it’s the first of
it’s kind. A gory horror film set in space in which
the antagonist is an alien.

11. • The final shots of the trailer are meant to hit the
audience with one last montage of clips that
highlight the fear and horror aspect of the trailer.
This is done using a fast pace-of-edit and loud
screams and alien sound effects, leaving them
stunned with the last, silent shot with the film’s
tagline reading at the bottom.
• The trailer does not give much of the story away,
just enough to make the audience want to go and
see it.