Trailer Analysis - Jumper

Jumper is a 2008 American science fiction action adventure film. It was filmed in 14 different countries to use popular locations such as the Coliseum. The film made a box office of around $220 million and had a budget of $85 million, so it was a quite successful film.  

The mise-en-scene of the film uses realistic locations and costumes. The film appears to be set in real life locations. The costumes for the characters reveal their personalities and social status. This all aids to portray the realism of the film to allow the special effects used and twisting storyline to appear more real life than they actually are. This is an important factor that we must aim to include in the trailer as we want to give the perception of a realistic setting, characters and storyline. The level of realism that we portray will determine how effective the trailer is.

A vast amount of diegetic sound is used throughout the trailer. The main one is dialogue. The use of diegetic sound contributes to the realism of the film, settings and actions. There is also non diegetic sound that is used to add effects and to increase suspense. Examples of this are the special effects used when the actor is transported to the different places. This allows the audience to know that something significant is happening. Also music is used throughout the film to set the pace of action and to also help the audience to detect which location he has been ported to E.g. Egyptian music to tell the audience that he has been ported to Egypt. All of this analysis has helped me to conclude that we will need to incorporate these aspects into the trailer. As the plot of the film is similar to this one and we need to keep the trailer as realistic as possible, then the concepts of diegetic and nondiegetic sound used throughout this trailer will be used.

The editing used is mainly fast and frequent cuts. This creates the image that the film is going to be fast paced and a vast amount of action will be present throughout the film. Fades are also used to show the passing of time and that the cuts shown in the trailer are not consecutive to each other. The cuts are shown in chronological order in reference to the film. This allows the audience to gather a slight idea of the journey throughout the film and the reasons and consequences of events. There are establishing shots used to allow the audience to establish the location or setting of the scene. Close ups of characters faces are also incorporated to show expression and emotions and allows the audience to see how they are feeling and reacting to events. This allows the audience to relate to the actors in more depth. Extreme close ups are used to help show the significance of objects. E.g. when there is an extreme close up of his hand to show the significance of the object he is holding.