Film Trailers : Genre

Genre
In this post I will provide four examples of film trailers with annotations based upon 5 questions which are listed below;
1. How would you describe the genre of the trailers? Do they feature any key elements?
2. What similarities can you see with male and female representation?
3. To what extent are special effects a feature of these trailers?
4. How does the soundtrack help to create a genre?
5. Who is this genre aimed at?

Trailers:
A.  Unbroken
1. Historical and war genre
2. This trailer has a majority of male characters, and the few female characters shown only appear for a few seconds each.
3. Not many special effects are used in this trailer, only when the plane crashes into the sea
4. The soundtrack is slow and saddening, is also used in the film "The Fault in Our Stars', this could create a pre-consumption
5. This trailer could be aimed towards teenagers to mid-twenties and of both sexes

B.   American Sniper
1. Historical and war genre
2. Their are only two women in this film trailer, wife of the sniper and women with the bomb. Both these women play the role of a victim in this film, the both receive some of the negative impacts of men going to war
3. There is hardly any special effects used in the trailer, this helps increase the realism of the situation and entices the audience
4. The heartbeat soundtrack adds tension and realism to the situation and emphasis the stillness of the sniper
5. This trailer could be aimed at teenagers to middle aged people of both sexes

C.   Blackhat
1. Cyber and war genre
2. The female in this trailer is shown as weaker than the male as she is protected by him (2.22). The female can also be portrayed as a double agent, being used by the men in the film to gain extra information.
3. Lots of specials effects are used in this trailer this adds tension and excites the audience
4. the soundtrack in this trailer matches the action, as the action builds so does the volume and the thickness of the soundtrack
5. This trailer could be aimed towards teenagers to early-twenties of both sexes