Another trailer analysis..

In today's lesson I looked at my last trailer. I looked at the film called 'The fourth kind' which is realeased in 2009. The film is based on true case studies from Alaska in America. The film is rated 15 and had true life footage that the doctor Abigail filmed.

The film is introduced with the actress playing Abigail, telling the audience what we are about to see is based on true life footage and some viewers may find it disturbing. For people who love these type of films will be sat on the edge of their seats wanting to see it immediatly.

Here is my analysis:

Genre – Horror/Based on actual events.
Narrative – The film is based on true case studies on alien encounters.
Unique Selling Point – Lots of films are coming out recently that are based on true events so it keeps the audience wanting to see what people are experiencing, also some people might be experiencing these things themselves so it helps.
Target Audience – 15, it shows true life footage of an actual event that took place in a town in America. It also has bad language so children under the age of 15 may not view this.
Music – Eerie music creates tension for the audience and starts slowly in the background from the beginning and builds up slowly. As the special effects and scene changes take place the music becomes louder and faster.
Camera Types – Close up on the doctor’s face a lot of the time to show tension and horror in what she is witnessing. Never really anything else rather than actual camera footage from real case studies. Camera zooms in to show the characters facial expressions. This keeps the audience in suspense because we can’t see any other body language.
Dialogue – The psychiatrist starts talking to the doctor at the beginning and asks her questions with her disorientated face to give away no identity. - The actress who plays the part of the doctor talks to the audience at the beginning to warn them that some of the footage in the film is real and it may be disturbing. - Most of the dialogue is the doctor asking her patients questions and them replying to the sightings they’ve seen. Voiceover – The only sound you hear is the music and dialogue. There is no voiceover in this trailer.
Credits and intertitles – At the end the trailer shows us the institution and when the films being released. We also are introduced to the main character at the beginning of the film. Special effects – A slide comes up showing us that the interview took place in 2002 with the doctor who witnessed these sightings with her patients. - The clock of 3:33am is always flashed in, which must be a main vital point of the film.- Real life footage is placed onto slides which keeps the audience involved.
- Were shown the house in which the doctor visits one of her patients and text is placed over the camera zooming in telling the audience that it is ‘based on actual events.’ After this we are shown real life footage of a character floating out of his bed which keeps the audience involved and wanting to see more.