Monday, 4 July 2011

Teaser trailer analysis - Blue Valentine


Blue Valentine:
In this short 2 minute teaser trailer, It includes a main scene throughout the whole trailer which has the sound carry on from begining during credits through till the end including having that sound during the random montage shots picked out from the film which one alone is about 1 to 3 seconds long. The music is amplified and much clearer in that scene as it is the main soundtrack to this teaser trailer.You have the common green screen information at the begining as you normally would for a trailer and then in this trailer you have the title credit of TWC, it then includes three festivals this film won at which said 'Official selection CANNES festival' 'Official selection SUNDANCE festival' 'Official selection TORONTO festival' before leading into the main scene that carrys this whole trailer through till the end. There is about 20 shots altogether thats if you dont include the credits and titles and only count that main scene that pops up various times in the piece once. The camera is normally postioned quite close up or in medium shots. The camera is also handheld throughout as we can see it slightly shake when still but this creates the right mood and style for this film as it feels more realistic and as the acting is very real aswell both story line and camera shots really correlate together well. Giving this real feeling of it being an independant film. And not a mainstream 'hollywood' special effects type film. The shots consist of different parts of the story and we see in the montage shots at the begining that they are both smiling, hugging and kissing, but as the different shots go on we start seeing them cry or argue or look upset, and without them saying anything in the short montage shots we can see that this story might just not have the typical happy ending we all hope for. There is a title credit shot at the end saying 'Academy award Nominee: Ryan Gosling' in white letters with a black background then a close up shot of him then another title credit follows with 'Academy award Nominee: Michelele Williams' with a close up shot of her following. Before continuing back to the main shot once again. The last two titles inbetween montage shots are 'BLUE VALENTINE' and 'comming soon'. They both have a black background in white writting in simple text.