Analysis of a film trailer - "Vantage Point"
The pre-release trailer for the film Vantage Point (Pete Travis, 2008) is one that tends to use customary styles and techniques in order to achieve its purpose of encouraging audiences to go out and see the film.
Original Film, who have previously produced such financially successful blockbusters as I Am Legend and The Fast and the Furious films, have opted to stick to traditional blockbuster values when producing the trailer for this film. From the very first sequence of the trailer we can clearly see that it uses pulsing images time to perfection with heartbeat-style music to build tension and immerse the audience within the situation.
This ties in with the thriller genre of the film and it appears to do barely anything to subvert or alter this genre in any way. Through the build-up of tension and the use of big name actors it is the thriller genre at its best especially with the well timed calm and then chaotic moments of the......
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