Trailer Analysis of The Matrix

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Trailer Analysis of The Matrix

The film trailer that I am going to analyse is the first film of a

trilogy, this film was released in 1999 and revolutionised films

forever. Introducing bullet time, new and improved slow motion effect,

this is now seen in many movies today. This film pops up many

philosophical questions that made scientists and philosophers E.g.

Steven Hawkins, ask the question, is this possible? Not only has this

film changed the views of many people, it has a big cult following

from hardcore fans to people in mental institutes that been effect by

this film.

This trailer is about the film, The Matrix. Directed and produced by

Larry and Andy Wachowski known as the Wachowski brothers. The purpose

of this trailer is to make people interested to watch the film not

once but many times which means this trailer has to be very effective

in the limited time given, it is about two minutes long and since this

film is like no other it is targeted at everyone, mostly action film

fans. The film is classed as a Sci-fi / action film. There will be new

concepts shown introduced in this trailer, as it is a trilogy it only

covers the first film.

The plot I simple, there is a question that needs answering and this

trailer is very direct and the first scene sees our first character,

Trinity, which is seen leaping a great distance between two buildings.

The action dives straight in and does not include the boring parts of

the film; music is not introduced at the beginning but is later added

in to last until the end. A little is known about this film and action

fans will be easily drawn in.

This trailer is very clever, a scene is shown and another scene is put

together to relate to that event. It starts off very effective and

draws in the views straight away.

A girl is seen running at night, this scene I s divided into three

shots for added dramatic effect which shows u the intensity of the

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