Thursday 5 May 2011

Editing of film trailers to portray a certain genre

Some films have a number of different film trailers, however they are all edited in different ways to match the genre that the film fits into.



Above, is 'The Shining' trailer which was released originally. This film is a horror and the trailer portrays this in the following ways- fast cuts, quick flash shots, creepy music, mis-en-scene, creepy music, violence and darkeness in the shots.


There is also a remake of this trailer, however it is portrayed in the genre of a rom com, this is shown in the following ways- happy music, a cheerful narrative voice of a man, long shots, intoduction of characters by the narrative voice and brighter lighting.

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