In the movie trailer for Holes you can generally see the three rhetorical devices, which make the trailer effective. These are fairly noticeable in the movie trailer, some more so than others. While the message they are getting across is quite obvious, the speaker aspect of it is not quite as obvious. The speaker in the trailer uses an enthusiastic voice to show the audience, which is generally young kids or people who like mystery, that it is a movie with plenty of excitement. While they go through it the speaker gets more enthusiastic, and the music for the trailer also becomes more upbeat. The speaker also mentions that the movie is based off of an award-winning book, most likely because it might broaden the age group for the audience.
The trailer starts off by getting the audience interested, starting with
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showing the beginning of the story, which is Stanley going to camp Green Lake. They then try to encourage the older audience by showing and saying that it is an award-winning book, and showing some older actors. After a short amount of time they go back to providing some brief scenes from the movie. The speaker stops speaking and it goes into these scenes, which either have amusing jokes, or are meant to make people interested in the movie. One way they do this is by showing scenes without an official ending to them, making people wonder how that scene will end. This is where the message is starting to be seen in the trailer. From all the different ways they try to intrigue you, the message is quite obvious, they want you to watch and enjoy the movie. They show many good scenes, including at the beginning, where they showed the scene about the curse that is supposedly attached to the men in the Yelnats family. This is said when Madame Zeroni uses a very attention grabbing, and mysterious tone. This allows the trailer to show that there is a mysterious curse, but not showing the cause or effect of the curse that they have. Doing so also allows the audience to be drawn into the movie quite easily. Not only will they wonder what the curse is, but how it ties into the story as well. The speaker also tells us directly that there is in fact a mystery, rather than just showing that there might be a mystery in the movie. While doing this, the speaker tends to not give away any of the important details. Main characters are also shown in the end so that the audience will tend to want to see more of them. Also, rather than playing a song that didn’t relate to the storyline, the trailer had one playing that it could use to its advantage. The trailer used it to further convey the message of the trailer, which aside from making people want to watch it, also shows some problems that people can relate to. Probably one of the problems that most people can relate to, is the fact that everyone has bad luck. It not only shows people to lift their head up, but it also shows that you can almost always make a bad situation into a better one. Another thing that people can relate to is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This problem also helps to show that something that could seem bad at first, could eventually turn into a great experience. So, the movie’s main characters convey a good message to the audience as well. This is also a very effective Rhetorical device, because it makes the audience more emotionally attached to the main characters. So, in conclusion, the trailer for the movie Holes uses many very effective Rhetorical techniques.
Throughout the whole trailer it is in some way conveying a message to the audience. This occurs whether they are drawing them in using the tone of Madame Zeroni’s voice, or when it possibly makes the audience emotionally attached to the main characters. The speaker also plays a major part in the process of grabbing the audience’s attention. This is done through the speakers enthusiastic voice to show that the movie is thrilling, rather than dull. The style of the trailer is also important, because it puts the most important things first into the trailer. It begins by drawing the attention of the audience towards the movie, and then building on their want to see the movie. The audience, however is the single most important Rhetorical device for the trailer. The reason for this is without the proper audience watching the trailer, and being intrigued by it, then none of the other devices would have been nearly as effective as they are. The message would not have been conveyed to anyone, and the speakers enthusiastic voice would have also been very
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