Evidence of film trailers I admire

Evidence of film trailers I admire

Shaun of the Dead

I watched the film trailer to Shaun of the dead; I admire this as it is a horror comedy. At the beginning of the trailer it starts off with news reports warning whoever it is watching that they need to pay attention as it is for their own safety. I think that this is a good aspect of the trailer as it has already attracted the attention of the audience as they have been instructed to ‘pay attention’. The idea of the trailer switching from the news report to a scene with zombies in but still having the narrative of the new report and then back to the scene again to see the news caster on the TV before being introduced to the two main characters sat down watching the TV has a good effect as it is showing the audience what the character are being warned about. In a way the trailer for Shaun of the dead feels a lot like a’ how to survive a zombie apocalypse guide ‘ which I think is a good thing as it make the genre of the film quite clear and is interesting for a film trailer.

The zombies in Shaun of the dead are slow moving zombies, not very intelligent and covered in blood that also walks around with missing limbs. I believe that although this film is more based on the comedy side it still follows the codes and conventions of a zombie film.

 

 

 The Crazies

I admire this film trailer as it starts of all nice and sunny showing how calm the surroundings are and how the village is enjoying a nice sunny day at a baseball match which is interrupted by an infected man. It then goes to show the audience that the characters in the film have notice a difference in the infected personnel this is portrayed with the next scene being in an examiner’s office with a woman replying to the doctors question “what is wrong?” she replies “I don’t know. Something’s not right.” This is a crucial clue in what is about to happen in the film trailer. The trailer then goes on to show how ‘the crazies’ are infected such as the repetition of sentences, the fading out almost ‘statue like’. Then nearing the end of the trailer is where all of the action is, such as feeling the sheer panic the characters are feeling, the infected killing people close to them such as their own family members in house fires, the loss of signal for mobile devices, the military killing people and explosions. The use of writing in-between adds effect, such as ‘this is only the beginning’ makes the audience think that there is more action to come when watching the whole film. The use of the song Mad world doesn’t fit in with the scene it is being played with as the scene is hectic and full of panic, although the song could relate to the title of the film ‘The Crazies’ as the infected have gone ‘mad’.

Again this film trailer sticks to the codes and conventions of a zombie film trailer as the zombies are slow moving, although they don’t necessarily eat the living like most zombies do in a zombie film the still have the need to kill the uninfected. This film trailer is focused on the genre its self horror unlike Shaun of the dead trailer it has only one specific genre.