Film trailer analysis

Lord of the rings film trailer analysis


film trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIgkpEgCV-I

The lord of the rings is a film based on the classic tale written by J.R.R Tolkein directed by Peter Jackson in 2001. The lord of the rings is a film in which an unlikely hobbit is entrusted with the task of destroying an evil ring of power, with the help of of many strong characters, whilst facing incredible hardships along his journey.

After watching the lord of the rings film trailer that lasts 2 minutes and 50 seconds and reading up 'save the cat' screen writing book by Blake Snyder I have found that this film falls into the institutionalized category. This is the category in which a group of people band together to with a common cause or goal in which they all desire to achieve. The reason i came to this conclusion is because as you can see throughout the trailer it has a lot of mention of how the protagonist (frodo Baggins) will need the help from the fellowship of followers to protect him on his perilous journey. Therefore the group of people are coming together to achieve a shared goal.

Codes and conventions    

Within the trailer you will notice a lot of graphic captions such as "He was chosen" these are used to grip the audience into almost believing that the story is real and drip feeding them information on what the film is going to be about.

Often used in trailers is non-digetic  sound/music this is to give the film its actual feel for example creepy music could be played to create a creepy feel for a scary film or fast paced music for a comedy.

Also, we got some narrative enigma which was a voice over explaining briefly what the film will be about and does a good job of setting the film up for the viewers.

With the suspenseful music and dark feel the use of scene fades used in this trailer was used very well and gave it an almost exciting feel to it, as the trailer progressed the fades became a lot more rapid and even became almost jump cut like.