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.