Classwork

This is work we have started in preparation of our trailer work, although this has nothing to do with horror trailers It will help me to learn more about different types of trailers and therefore I will be able to expand my knowledge and see the differences between different genres. 

Question:Look at the following titles of three trailers on the disc Teaching Trailers Secondary 2011: Captain America: The First Avenger, Prom, Honey 2. Based on just the titles, what clues are there about the content of the film? Try to say what exactly you are basing your ideas on. Is it the associations of a particular word or phrase? Is it knowledge of other films?

Answer: Captain America: The First Avenger sounds like an action packed film simply by its name, Moreover I know it is going to be an action/ adventure film as the film is based upon a comic character called Captain America, although this is a classic we can immediately know from the mention of the name that it is about him.
Prom: This film sounds like a happy sort of teenage chick flick; we know this as prom is usually a happy time for teenage girls.
Honey 2: This sounds like a sort of warm and happy film, Moreover the word ‘honey’ has a connotation of being warm and soft. Moreover I have seen Honey which was purely about dance, thus I know this film will be about dancing as well, however if I had never seen the film Honey I would never have been able to guess it would be about dancing.

Question: Now watch the trailer. How accurate were your predictions?

Answer: After watching the trailer for Captain America I found that it was an action packed film, however it was about a war which I did not get from looking at the title of the film. Similarly with Prom the film was about a high school preparing for prom, the trailer portrays the film as a drama type of film. As I had seen the film Honey I concluded that the sequence would be about dancing, I was correct, the trailer more or less showed this.

Question: Trailers help audiences understand the genre of a film. Referring to the trailers listed above, which ones fit the following genres? Comedy, romantic and action adventure.

Answer: Captain America is an action adventure film, Prom would be a romantic film and Honey 2 would be a comedy film.

Question: Do any of the trailers seem to fit more than one genre? Give reasons for your answers.

Answer: In the trailer of Prom it seems to be more than just a romantic film, as for some characters they have been rejected and some characters do not seem happy, this leads us to believe that the film could also be in the drama genre. Captain America could also fit into the war genre as it is mostly about preparing and having a war.