The document provides a detailed analysis of shots from the movie trailer for Minority Report. It examines how various shots use techniques like lighting, camera angles, settings and motifs to convey meaning and build suspense. Key points analyzed include the use of low-key lighting to emphasize a character's inner struggle, how blue tones are used to relate to law enforcement, and how close-ups of eyes reference themes of identity and the psychological thriller genre. Fight scenes and action sequences near the end of the trailer heighten excitement as more of the plot is left mysterious.

1. Minority Report (2002) – Steven Spielberg

3. The dramatic opening of the teaser instantly captures the audiences
attention - due to the fast-paced editing - as they invade a man’s
home. However, from this shot the pace is slowed as dialogue takes
place.This mid shot is taken from a low angle, emphasising the
authority that the two men in armour have.The use of armour and
authority indicates that they are from some kind of government
enforcers.The positioning of the shot allows the audience to infer
that the character positioned in the middle is the main character and
the one to the left is a side character.
The camera tilts up and the audience can see that the man on the bed
is victimised as he is literally pinned to the bed, however the audience
are positioned to like the authority figures as we find out the victim is
being arrested for murder, but this changes when it is revealed that
he hasn’t committed the crime yet.The audience are left confused.
In terms of lighting, the windows let in bright white light but the
overall lighting is quite low key as shadows are used on half of the
main character’s face indicating a potential inner struggle he may
face in the film.

4. This use of graphic text helps to explain what the audience may have
been confused about in the previous shot. The typography used is
typical for a thriller as it is bold, white and capitalised and shares a
common design to the movie poster.The actual text they use has key
repeated words that they use to establish the genre of the film,
including ‘guilty’, ‘crime’ and ‘punished’.The tension of the trailer is
boosted by the use of dramatic ‘booms’ every time a new line of text
is introduced.

5. The next shot I chose was of the institutional information, more
specifically the production/distribution companies. Most
importantly, this shot makes use of the colour blue. Blue is
obviously the colour of the sky and sea and has relation to nature,
but it is often used in thrillers as it links to the police and other law
enforcement.This relates to the jobs that the characters have and
shows that this is a crime/psychological thriller.The shot also has
a moving water special effect.The water symbolises emotions,
but also has a theme of identity due to reflections found in the
water.This use of the colour blue is what the marketers of the film
have used to create a strong brand identity that helps to make
the film easily recognisable.

6. There is a zoom into an extreme close-up of a female’s eye, which
creates enigmas as to why she is linked up to a machine. Eyes are a
repeated motif in the teaser trailer and is a convention of the
psychological thriller genre as eyes are the ‘windows to the soul’ and
connotes themes of identity and inner-self.The combination of the
eye and text makes a point of directly addressing the audience
adding a sense of fear and suspense.The poster also makes use of
this technique.The non-diegetic sound in this scene uses a kind of
holy synth sound which is contrapuntal to what is on screen as there
is often a strong divide between science and religion.

7. This close-up of the main character is during a dialogue scene in
which he says the movie’s tagline ‘ Everybody runs’ following
this there is a sudden change in non-diegetic music as there are
more frequent drums and the tempo increases. Low key lighting
is also used in this shot to create meanings as once again half of
the main character’s face is covered in shadows drawing
attention to the potential darker side of his character.The
setting of this shot is in some kind of basement due to the
ventilation on display in the background.This creates the sense
of being trapped or hidden and excites the audience.

8. This medium close-up denotes the main character in mid
fight. Once again the low key lighting is repeatedly used to
cast the main character in darkness and create enigmas
leading the audience to wonder what his true motivations
are this enigma is strengthened by the dark leather jacket,
which is often worn by villains.This is also the second time
in the trailer where he is involved in fight scene. In terms of
representation government authority figures are often
represented as being weak as they are often too late to
solve the crime or catch the criminal, or are easily defeated
and the main character takes matters into their own hands.
For this character he is represented as powerful, aggressive
and very dedicated to his work as he is willing to risk his life.
However, the audience do not know what exactly his work
is.

9. The duration of each shot from this point is much faster as
the fight scene heightens the excitement for the audience.
This shot is the beginning of a montage featuring all the
exciting or enigmatic clips from the film so far. Lighting plays
a key part in this shot as there is use of a bright white
backlight, which helps to create a blue tone over the shot.
There are two characters positioned in the middle of the
shot and appear like silhouettes. Notably, the main
character is the one who seems to be winning the fight.This
suggests that he plays a key role to the film.

10. The eye motif is featured again with use of more text graphics
of the director’s name. In order to help build a stronger brand
identity the eye is also the film’s key colour, blue.The straight
cut into the extreme close-up of the eye is unsettling as it is
wide open and suggests fear.There is a slight reflection in the
eye of the pupil, this is effective as it confronts themes of
identity and shares a link to the previous special effect of the
water over the institutional information as water is also
associated with reflections and the idea of confronting
yourself.This ties in with the psychological thriller aspect of
the teaser trailer.

11. The close-up here is interesting as it features the main character
in a blindfold, a key element of the movie poster.The use of the
blindfold here connotes vulnerability and weakness as his sight is
restricted. In this shot there are sci-fi elements featured as there
is use of robotic, technical features.The blindfold suggests that
he is in complete surrender to these robots, the lack of clothing
also suggests this.The setting looks to be in a bathroom, or
sanitised room of some kind and adds to the sci-fi aspect of the
thriller. It is just after this shot that the non-diegetic action music
reaches its crescendo as the title of the movie appears.The shots
towards the end of the trailer seem to be the most important to
the narrative as the music gets more intense towards the end. It
is shots featured at the end that create more enigmas for the
audience to keep increasing the level of suspense.