1. Analysis of Hangover 3
Camerawork:
Establishing shot at the beginning to the show the graveyard and start the basis of
where the comedy will be derived from.
Two shot to show the reactions of three of the main characters at the fourth, showing
the comedy will be aimed around him.
Close ups to show the danger that they are in when they are being attacked by the
lorry to show the nature of the film.
Frequent use of mid shots to help establish the scene and what is going on with a
good amount of the background involved but still being mainly focussed on the main
characters.
Sound:
The dialogue is used throughout the trailer and allows the audience to establish what
type of personality the individual characters have. For example Alan’s over
exaggerated cry gives a good indication of what type characters he is.
Also the dialogue that is used also allows to show what type age group it is aimed at;
along with the title it shows that it is meant for adults predominately those that drink
because they can relate to some of the random situations they find themselves in. As
well as this with the beginning of the trailer showing them in a graveyard and then
speaking about intervention for mental purposes it shows conclusively that the age
range of audience is older.
Non diegetic sound is fast paced which indicates it is fast paced that has a lot of
action in it as well as comedic features which are highlighted when the non diegetic
music stops momentarily for it to become apparent.
Editing:
The transition between the shots starts very slowly and then begins to build up and
become much quicker to show the basic storyline on the film. There is an action
match that is also used in the trailer to show when they are speaking about a
character and then an actual clip of what happened as well as where they are the
current time of them speaking.
There is a use of tracking used mid way through the trailer to show the situation they
are in and create the sense of chaos that is going on in the scene.
There are parts in the trailer where there are numerous scenes shown in very quick
succession this allows you to get a brief view of the characters without giving you
everything, thus meaning you will want to buy the film and watch it in full, therefore
being extremely conventional.
Mise-en-scene:
The clothes that the actors are wearing in the trailer start off to be very clean and
respectable and then as the trailer progresses the clothes become torn and dirty.
This shows that they start to get into bad positions where how they would be
everyday doesn’t become the normal.
2. Also the protagonists’ clothes in the trailer had a silly masks and features to their
costumes, for example he was wearing normal attire with a woven multi colour scarf.
Conventions of genre:
The trailer is very conventional because of all the different techniques that are used
throughout it. There is a mixture of slow and fast paced editing to connote the
different parts in the film between the high adrenaline parts and the more thoughtful
parts. This can be linked in with the style of comedy as well because the fast paced
will be fairly basic and simple humour, whereas the slow paced will be more in depth
comedy.
The mise-en-scene of the trailer was also extremely conventional for a comedy
because of the choice of extras and props, for example they use a giraffe which is a
very strange animal for the setting of the film, and this all adds a stereotypical
comedy.
Genre is also shown very conventionally in the trailer by some of the dialogue, for
example when Alan said he wanted his mum to die before his dad and he thought his
text wasn’t from ciao it was someone saying ciao to him.
Conventions of form:
One big convention of form that is used throughout the trailer is text that is used, it
works to do both split up the different clips and then also adds details to what you are
watching. Also they used fade in starts a lot which added suspense to the scenes
which is typical in a comedy before a substantial punch line will be introduced or the
start to one will be.
