Analysing a film trailer similiar to ours..

Today I analysed the film/documentary trailer "Bowling for Columbine". Whilst analysing this documentary I found that again the trailer was fast paced which is to keep the audience involved and aware of what is to happen in the film. Whilst analysing the trailer I looked at the following points.

Genre – Documentary
Narrative - The film is about true life gun crimes in America.
Unique Selling Point - There isn’t a lot of documentaries or films like this out there, there is a huge awareness of it but not so many films on the case.
Target Audience - 12A, it shows the age range of teenage and adult gun crime so it would be more appropriate to this age group rather than a younger audience.
Music - Very street type music at the beginning to show the fun in the documentary and continues through the first interview which we see to keep the audience involved. The music then fades out and we see the man being interviewed playing a gun game and we hear the gun shots.
Camera Types - Mainly medium close ups as to show Michael Moore interviewing people. Pace- Very fast pace, gun crime is usually a quick action to take and is over within seconds so the pace of the trailer keeps the audience on edge and interested to watch the film to see all the short snippets were given.
Dialogue - Speech from people that Michael Moore interviewed for his programme. We are showed footage of Michael speaking to people and organising interviews with them and so on.
Voiceover - Were told who’s staring in the documentary right at the beginning of the trailer. Special effects- The scenes are cut quickly, and there is animated cartoon characters throughout the trailer to keep the audience of teenagers involved in the documentary as well as adding jokes in.
Credits and intertitles - Put through the trailer to show past films created by this company, other shows Michael has worked with and the places he originated his ideas from.

This has now again helped given me an insight on things to look at whilst Charlotte, Gemma and I create our documentary trailer.