The Martian - trailer

As the previous blog I was talking about the trailer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, I thought it would only be fair to talk about the trailer for The Martian.

This trailer is 3 minutes and 8 seconds which is longer than 2001's trailer. 

The trailer starts off with a voice-over, and then the edge of Mars appears.  You then get to see a group of astronauts about to leave a space-ship.  The next scene is them in a storm on Mars and Damon being hit by a satellite so his crew thinking he is dead, leaves Mars because it is too dangerous to stay.

Through out the trailer there are a few fade to black transitions but then there are very quick cuts, which I like a lot because it makes the trailer sort of an action based movie as well as being a sci-fi. The difference between cuts is really interesting because it gives the viewers different emotions through out watching this trailer.

Matt Damon does a voice-over during most of the trailer which allows me, as a viewer, to know that Damon is the main character in this film. It mainly just shows Matt Damon's character in the trailer with a few other characters here and there, this is because he is the main character and also it is showing his journey of survival/hunt to try and get help from his crew which are on earth.

You also get to see many different locations in this trailer - you can see that most of the movie is set in space (Mars especially), Earth and also in a spaceship but in different parts of the ship.  

This source allows me to look at the trailers for each of the two films and allow me to compare/contrast to talk about the different features of them.  I will use this information for L06.

Trailer - 2001: A Space Odyssey

Hey guys :)
I'm back!! And today I am going to talk about the trailer for 2001 A Space Odyssey.

2001: A Space Odyssey

I feel that this trailer allows you to see what type of film it is.  The genre is defiantly science fiction and you can tell it is set in space, so this allows the viewers to see if will be interested in watching it or not.  The trailer is 2 minuets 30 seconds long and in that time you see different parts of the film which I feel it a spoiler to the film because it shows you a lot of different scenes.  The background music changes a lot during the short trailer, from very up-beat and loud music to slow and ballet style music.

In the trailer, you get to meet a lot of characters in a short space of time.  I noticed while watching the trailer that there are only a few female characters, there are a lot of male ones.  From what I can see, there are only 6 females in the trailer, there might be more in the actual film itself though.

There are also a lot of locations shown in the trailer which allows the viewers to know where it is set - most of the film is set on a spaceship. By showing a lot of locations in a trailer allows it to be clear that it is a sci-fi based film.

At the start of the trailer, there are very quick fade to black transitions which is really interesting and I feel it adds more tension to the movie.  There is also a voice-over explaining a set of instructions which at first you don't know who is speaking and then it is revealed as someone on a screen explaining things while two men watch.