Trailer Analysis - This Is The End

This film was released in 2013, having a budget of around $32 million and making a box office of about $126million, it is seen as a success. The film is directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and features actors such as James Franco Seth Rogan and cameos from Emma Watson, Channing Tatum and Rihanna. This helps to attract an audience from fans of those actors and the directors, as well as people that like comedy films. 

The plot is based around the end of the world events and the main characters have to barricade themselves inside of a house to survive, with only a few bottles of water, lots of beer and a few food items. This is a typical setting for a horror/action/sci fi/comedy film. The breaking of the equilibrium is the end of the world event, and even though the trailer does not explicitly say it, but one would assume that the main characters have to save the world. The narrative theory that the film conforms closest to is Todorov's theory. The start shows a stable state of equilibrium and then the equilibrium is disrupted and the characters have to survive, as well as restore the equilibrium. The film does not conform to propp's theory as it has no defined hero, villain or any of the roles, its almost like all of the main characters play the heros and a few of the other character types come and go briefly.

The rest of the setting starts of with a house party setting, with all of the character enjoying themselves, then the setting suddenly changes to a fire ridden apocalypse setting. The contrast between the two settings amplifies the main setting which is the apocalyptic setting. This makes the audience see that the events happening are, well, "serious".

The sound that is in the trailer has a background rap track the plays almost throughout the entirety of the trailer. The track at the beginning helps to make the beginning of the film seem very light hearted and easy going, but the track continues over to the second setting of the trailer, which helps to keep the audience in the mid set of that this film is a comedy and not as serious action film. The dialogue in the film is small snippets of the film, which help to give the audience a small outline of the plot of the film, but not give it away completely.

The costumes which the characters are wearing in the film are very typical of average american people, as the film is based around the actors playing themselves. The setting is typical is said before and everything else is very typical of a modern American film.

The camera angles that are used in the trailer are fairly simple as well. As there is not really any complicated fight or chase scenes, the camera angles can be kept simple and the match on action is limited to talking scenes. A more wide variety of camera angles would have made the film more technically impressive, but the whole point of a comedy is to entertain, and making it more technically impressive would not have added entertainment value, therefore making it pointless.