Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Trailer Analysis - American Pie The Reunion



This movie budgeted $50 million and made a box office of $235 million which just proves its success.
Straight away the film distribution name of the film is seen, with many other trailers including their distribution companies at the beginning to address audience of its quality and publicity it will be getting.
The Main Characters are introduced when the cameras first shot is a close up of a picture of the couple even though the audience is aware of the actors and characters that will be starring in the film, this links to Todorov’s narrative theory.
The camera work in the first scene is worked around really smartly as it pans around the bed. This denotes a sexual reference especially with the clothes around the bed on the floor and bed squeaking up and down. This will draw the audience in straight away as it shows comedy straight away and emphasis the genre.
The pace of the trailer increases as the trailer goes on, getting quicker and quicker as well as the soundtrack. Even though it’s not building up to anything significant, the structure of it is quite attention grabbing.
At this is a reunion film, the trailer includes a lot of how the actors grew up since their early years. "They have grown up .... but they haven't settled down," tell the audience that even though many years past and they may except them to be different, they aren’t and should expect similar content to what they had in previous films.
At the scene of the party, all characters are seen to re enforce the fact that they haven’t grown up as its looks very college like. The character known as "Stifler" is also wearing clothes that could be associated with the class of 99 and this again shows that the producers are trying to carry on the legacy of the trailer.
The title at the end is used really well, as the background of the title is white which makes the title stand out as its red. Making it look as if it’s a badge, the font is very bold and in the middle of the page thus given most dominant. The title is put before the end scene to cause a cliff-hanger for the audience to be left curious and watch the film. Although most of the trailers I have analysed have the movie title right at the end, this makes the audience think its trying to squeeze all the footage out to them as possible and desperate to watch more.

The USP for this trailer is the previous franchise success, not something I can build on as my trailer will be a one off and not done every few years or so, therefore I have nothing to build on as well. Although the narrative of the trailer is used really well through text and scenes, a lot of reinforcement is shown about people’s initial ideas about American Pie and its classical conventional college adult humour parties.

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