Research and Planning: What is a trailer and what is its purpose

What is a Film/Movie Trailer?
A trailer is sections and clips of a film shown to an audience before the release of the actual film.

What is its purpose?
The purpose of a trailer is to make the audience want to go and see it. The film makers, distributors and producers will create a trailer to show to the audience before its release in hope to persuade them to watch the film. They will only select the best part of the films, for example, if it was a comedy film they will select the funniest parts of the film to go into the trailer.

Research and Planning: The Bling Ring Analysis

The Bling Ring (2013) Analysis for Camera Cuts
I have analysed The Bling Ring (2013) official Trailer to see what cuts have been used.

Total of jump cuts used: 67
Total of Cutaways used: 14
Total of Match Cuts used: 0
Total of other cuts used: 0

Research and Planning: Film Genres

These are four film genres which I think would be goof to make a movie trailer for

Horror
I think horror would be a good genre to make a film trailer, poster and magazine cover for because with a horror I will be able to use free props and scenery so it wont be expensive to make.
A horror film is a film aimed to scare and bring fear to the audience by playing on and exaggerating the common fear which most people might have. Plots of horror films often include, and evil force of some kind or supernatural activity. Most horrors include; aliens, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, demons, monsters etc.

Thriller
Thrillers try to create excitement, suspense and tension to get the audiences attention. thrillers are often adrenaline rushing, gritty and fast pace, they are always making the audience anxious about what is happening next. they often cross over with other genres, some sub-genres might include mystery-thrillers, and crime-thrillers

White house down(2013)

Crime
these films are mostly based around the lives of criminals, they can be portrayals of rwal-life crime figures or about the evil doings of fictional criminals. They are also often based on a book or novels or series of novels like the Agatha Christie novels. Like thrillers these films sometimes have sub genres too some might include crime-thrillers, crime-comedies or crime-dramas

The Family(2013)

                                             















Comedy
A comedies main purpose is to make an audience laugh, they are often light-hearted dramas and are made to entertain audiences by making them laugh and they usually finish in a happy ending. Comedy is one of the oldest film genres because it is very reliant on the visual aspects of the film.

We're the Millers(2013)