To highlight the differences between OPENINGS and TRAILERS I watched clips of openings and trailers from the same film. I took notes on the original eight areas for each clip, this then helped me to compare them as i could compare each area then compare them overall.
This is the film OPENING from Casino Royale
Genre- Gambling, Action and fighting
Narrative- Musical, no words
Character- many people die, one is always alive. Woman is Queen material. Cartoons- smooth and slow. Becomes human at the end shows authority
Atmosphere- Erie, death and sneaky
Themes- cards, games gambling action with guns
Setting- Casino, on cards shows the feeling of the casino.
Sound- soundtrack, it’s fast and mysterious
Titles- Plain white, stands out, Singular names.
Overall this shows the film to be mainly about Gambling and playing games. Whether there gambling life or money. Or playing games with love, each other or again for money. The opening makes the audience think the film will be based on money.
This is the film TRAILER for Casino Royale
Genre- action, fast paced.
Narrative- tells audience Bond is clever and needed. It’s a win lose situation involves money and love
Character- Bond is authoritative and bright. Evil man- has a misshapen face, he’s mean and sinister. Women young and glamorous
Atmosphere- Sneaky, secretive fast, destructive
Themes- Money, women, winning, violence
Setting- Warm, night abandoned, casino, airplanes- moving around
Sound- bond theme tune, loud flashy and strong bass line
Titles- all in the same font, link together by different transitions.
The trailer for the film makes the audiance think the film is fast paced and full of action. The soundtrack and the editing enhance this as it makesit seem faster. The trailer introduces the charecters so the audiance then has more to take on board, including money, gambaling and women.
The differences between the opening and the trailer are that genres aren’t always shown in the opening as trailer is action, but the opening is based more on money and only slightly action. The trailer contains more information about the hole film and so does the opening but the opening is in a lot less detail and only gives you ideas whereas the trailer shows bits of the film. In the trailer the characters are shown fully, the audience can start to decide there feelings on each person as the trailer show us some of there personality. Whereas in the opening you are shown the storyline and characters are shown but you don’t know anything about them. There are similarities in this trailer and opening, one of them being that they both create the same atmosphere and the same themes. This is used for most openings and trailers as they want the audience to see the same things they will see in the film. In a trailer most settings are shown, they make the film seem based more on action, rather than gambling. Whereas in the opening its based more on gambling, suggesting that trailers should show all settings in the film to grab interest. Whereas the openings should simply welcome the audience. The sounds in the trailer are very different to sound sin the opening. The opening sound is literally a soundtrack, whereas the trailer has a lot more dialogue, which helps to explain the narrative. Another big difference between the trailer and the opening are the titles. In the trailer there aren’t any titles until the ending, where only a few are used. the font of these are very detailed and compliment the film. However in the opening there are a lot of titles, including names of actors, producers and companies. They are a lot simpler and are on the screen for less time.
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