Year Released: 1986
Genre of Trailer: Action/ Comedy/ Horror
My Mark after viewing: 4/10
This is about a boy who was a nerd, got bullied and had no friends. Until, he fell into a pot of Toxic Waste and he became The Toxic Avenger, a superhero who fought crime.
There were some aspects of this trailer that I thought was done well, for instance the character types were very apparent from the outset, making them easy to follow and the audience could quickly invest in them emotionally. The gore effects were also very clever, the bubbling arm and the arm that is ripped of a villain's body. They were very well done and looked realistic something that I would like to include in my own trailer as it was very effective, this film was low budget too so the gore effects would not be too difficult to achieve. There was a lot of different pieces of action from the film, showing you lots of different aspects meaning that if you went to go watch it in the cinema you wouldn't be surprised, it sells the genre well as all of the conventions are included.
However, there were aspects of the film that I thought were unsuccessful. For a start, the trailer was way too long it lasted 3 minutes 9 seconds were the best timing for a trailer is normally around 1 minute 30 seconds, so over double the time. This meant that the whole story line was given away, I felt that i knew the film and I've never even watched it, it doesn't compel the audience to go see because you already know what happens. Speed of the trailer was also very slow due to the length, it made it easy to become disinterested and bored; this is further backed up by the excessive use of mid-shots, there were so many mid-shots that the trailer didn't grab you with montage, it was ineffective. The title was repeated loads of times throughout the trailer to the point where it started to get annoying, the audience do even need to know the title until the end of the trailer.
The average score from the class was 3.5/10, as a trailer it was ineffective, was too long, the story line was given away making the trailer very ineffective to an audience.
There were some aspects of this trailer that I thought was done well, for instance the character types were very apparent from the outset, making them easy to follow and the audience could quickly invest in them emotionally. The gore effects were also very clever, the bubbling arm and the arm that is ripped of a villain's body. They were very well done and looked realistic something that I would like to include in my own trailer as it was very effective, this film was low budget too so the gore effects would not be too difficult to achieve. There was a lot of different pieces of action from the film, showing you lots of different aspects meaning that if you went to go watch it in the cinema you wouldn't be surprised, it sells the genre well as all of the conventions are included.
However, there were aspects of the film that I thought were unsuccessful. For a start, the trailer was way too long it lasted 3 minutes 9 seconds were the best timing for a trailer is normally around 1 minute 30 seconds, so over double the time. This meant that the whole story line was given away, I felt that i knew the film and I've never even watched it, it doesn't compel the audience to go see because you already know what happens. Speed of the trailer was also very slow due to the length, it made it easy to become disinterested and bored; this is further backed up by the excessive use of mid-shots, there were so many mid-shots that the trailer didn't grab you with montage, it was ineffective. The title was repeated loads of times throughout the trailer to the point where it started to get annoying, the audience do even need to know the title until the end of the trailer.
The average score from the class was 3.5/10, as a trailer it was ineffective, was too long, the story line was given away making the trailer very ineffective to an audience.
No comments:
Post a Comment