Inception - teaser trailer

A link to the video can be found below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DwuVKfjctk

The trailer for Inception is quite slow in nature and concentrates on the strange more abnormal aspects of the film in order the makes the audience feel uneasy. The music is slow in order to keep the pace of the trailer down. As with many other trailers it uses titles to add to its effects.

• The opening shot of the trailer is an establishing shot in order to tell the audience that this is where the next shot will take place and to set the scene.

• The next shot of the trailer is the following one, of a main character. The audience are lead to believe that this is someone important by the fact that we are introduced to him so early. The close up shot allows the people watching to see his emotion and therefore gain an understanding of the situation.

The importance of the character is reinforced by his continual appearance throughout the trailer. as you can see from the screen shots below.

• The lighting throughout the trailer is quite dark, which puts are far more sinister aspect on the situation and leads the audience to feel slightly uncomfortable. As a result, the genre of the film is translated to the audience without them knowing it.

• The wierd abnormal side of the film is shown through close up shots, and long shots to offer a sense of perspective on the scene for the audience. This also makes the audience feel like they are part of the situation, and as a result it is made more dramatic.

The shot above uses a canted angle in order to represent to the audience that there is soemthing not right.

• As with the majority of film trailers, this film uses titles with loads of effects in order to narrate a story to the audience. As well as this it tells us that there has been a change in place or time. Screen shots of some of these titles can be found below.