Essay Comparing Two Trailers For The Same Films

Comparing Two Trailers for the Same Films

Compare two trailers for the same or opposite films, exploring the similarities and differences between them and their effects on an audience.

I will be discussing the similarities and differences in the two film trailers. I will also discuss the effect they have on the audience by looking at lighting, images, music, actors, characters, special effects, editing/speed, dialogue and any other information given. The two trailers I will look at are ‘Return to Me’ and ‘The Matrix.’

In the first trailer, Return to Me, it showed scenes of family and friends together. From the trailer I interpreted that the genre was a romantic comedy. This is because the trailer

Perhaps this shows I was not the target audience Also the trailer puts the themes of the film on the screen; some of these were ‘destiny’, ‘fate’ and ‘blind date’, this was done by flashing words in a bright colour on the screen to get your attention. The words also show it is a romantic film.

The characters are also introduced by name on the screen, and for each phrase, the trailer showed clips of their lives and gave you information about there backgrounds, which may encourage people to watch the film if they want to find out more. Other effects the trailer had on the audience are that it is a light, happy film because the lighting was bright throughout the piece and also the music is lively and jazzy. The shots were shown at an average speed and the trailer mostly showed the funny parts of the film, which may have been intended to get people to watch. Another part which stood out was when Minnie Driver turns her head very slowly towards the camera. The film was family orientated as it had funny parts and parts about love. The stars names were given in writing on the screen too; they were

The new information given on the second trailer ‘Matrix’ was the website www.whatisthematrix.com which again kept my opinion of the genre the same as the matrix appears to be fictional.

I think that the intended audience for ‘Return to Me’ is families because it is funny not scary or rude. Also the lighting is bright, music is animated and the scenes are of family and friends so appeals to a family audience.

The ‘Matrix’ I think is for older teenagers and adults because it is harder to follow, has fight scenes and inappropriate special effects for young children. The effect of flashing lights makes the film daunting for youngsters. The trailer for ‘The Matrix’ shows mostly men which is to some extent more appealing to males.

Overall I thought the directors of both films appealed to a certain target group with the different effects and would make them want to watch the film. Personally ‘The Matrix’ was more appealing to me rather than ‘Return to Me’ which also suggests the target audience for ‘The Matrix’ being