Movie Trailers

This is the opening scene of the movie Shawshank Redemption (1994). This scene is known as an establishing shot which allows the audience to see where the scene is set. The camera angle is an high angle making the main character seem vulnerable and weak.

This shot is a close up, which allows the audience to clearly see the characters facial expression - it illustrates how frighten and shocked the protagonist is. To build on this effect they used a 'slow camera dolly in' to allow the audience to become more intimate with the character; this is done to help the audience empathise with the character more.

Therefore this allows the audience to clearly see what type of movie its going to be. The two scenes allows the audience to categorised this movie as a crime/drama as the opening scene is in a courtroom and the second scene illustrates him as confused.

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This is Scarlett Johansen shooting down toward the enemies in Captain America The Winter Soldier (2014). This low angle here was used to place the audience in the same position as the enemies, therefore making her character appear stronger and more dominant.
In addition, the shot shows her falling backwards still shooting at the enemies, which also adds power to her character, as she is able to use her skill set in a dangerous situation.

This can be seen as a mid long shot which, allows the audience to see the Captain America posture as hefty and strong. This shows the audience two different emotions being displayed as the character with the gun is slightly panicked due to his body being all tensed up and while he is holding his gun very tightly. However the audience sympathies to the character with the gun as the audience is predict him getting beaten up due to how prepared Captain America looks.

Both these scene builds tension in the trailer, allowing the audience to expect this movie to contain a lot of action packed fanatics throughout the movie. Compared to the two other movies this is seen to be a very dramatic containing a lot of fanatic fight scenes.

Click here - Captain America The Winter Soldier Trailer 

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The movie Hundred Foot Journey uses low vs high angle to demonstrate who is control of the situation of romance. This is well made as this plays with the audiences mind, as men are usually the ones prefer to be in control of the situation. The high angle plays out well as it creates a sense of empowerment towards her. The low angle shows a sense of innocence towards the guy, which may appeal to the audience of him being cute. It also allows the audience
to see it in the same perspective as the characters.

This over the shoulder shot allows the audience to see whom she is talking and we are able to see the emotions she is displaying when looking at him. This also helps establish the scene being set.

This scene extreme close up allows the audience to see what all the drama is all about. The fact that all the emphasis is an a asparagus illustrates how important food is in this movie.



This allows the audience to see this movie is about romance and love either towards this girl or about his passion of food. In comparison to the two other trailers this movie builds tension around small things you wouldn't normally panic about, making it a good family film.

In the romantic and action movies you start to notice that they use over the shoulder in order to portray the emotions the characters gives towards them. This is highly useful because it illustrates the relationship both the characters give each other. Extreme close up is often used in Dramas as it help over exaggerate the situation, as it exposes ever minor detail. However most action movies allow the characters seem in control of the situation by the use of a mid shot. This allows the audience to establish the characters body posture and his surrounding to establish the character is control of the scene.

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