The Role of a Movie Trailer

Media Assignment Film Trailer

Film trailers have many purposes. The main reason is to persuade people to watch the movie. The filmmakers get the best parts of the film and put it together to make the trailer. The target movie for this trailer, Up, is a family audience. This means they would try and persuade a family to watch it. Also, hey would make the movie appropriate for everyone in the family to watch.

In the trailer of ‘Up’ the characters from the film are used to persuade people to watch the film. For example, they use a very grumpy old man and a very energetic young boy. This makes the movie funny because the two characters have two totally different ways of thinking For example, the old man, Carl, just wants peace and quiet and wants to be alone whereas Russell, the young boy, wants to go with the Carl because he wants to have fun and thinks its ‘cool’ because the house is gong up. Also, later on the trailer, Carl and Russell find a talking dog, which makes the trailer funny, and also find bird, which is very annoying according to Carl, which also makes it funny, as Carl just wants peace and quiet. The storyline of the film ‘Up’ is an old man called Carl who just wants peace. Outside his house, it is noisy so he decides to go on an adventure and go up with his house. He then finds out that he accompanied by a young boy called Russell and they both go on an adventurous trip together. The storyline of the film is another way to entertain the audience because it is about something nobody would’ve ever thought of and about something nobody would’ve seen.

The music that is used in the trailer has a big affect in the trailer. The music is used in many different ways. For instance, it is used to create tense, it is used to make the funny moments even funnier and also the music helps create adventurous which also helps to create tense. When there is a funny moment the music stops to make the moment seem even funnier. That would make the people want to