Comparison of Two Film Trailers: Lord of the Rings III and The Gladiator

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Comparison of Two Film Trailers: Lord of the Rings III and The Gladiator A film trailer is a sequence or progression of captivating, mind-clutching scenes from a film. Trailers usually encapsulate the film and end with a cliff-hanger; capturing the viewer's attention and attracting them towards the film, encouraging them to watch it. My task is to compare two film trailers, 'Lord of the Rings III' and 'The Gladiator'. 'The Lord of the Rings III' is an imaginary, wizardry, legendary, sort of film. It consisted of things such as dragons, gremlins, old men with long white beards and also castles and warriors. The trailer contained many missionary scenes of bravery like determined young men fighting with bows and arrows and also a horse running in an open filed with a man on it, holding a white stick with a luminous, vivid light on top it. The trailer also had calm gentle scenes for example, when the small gremlin spoke, whilst the man was climbing up a high rocky cliff and said 'come master', the gremlin sounded so innocent; but do we know whether or not the gremlin is good or bad? A scene like this get the viewer tense and makes them anxious to watch the film. The first clip shown is of some open land with some rocky hills and a sort of tall tower in the corner with a bell at the top of it. There is also a bright turquoise light behind the hills, entering the sky vertically whilst the sky next to it thunders and a small portion of it glows with an orangey colour, as if it is on fire. After this there are two men standing beside each other with quite serious facial expressions, the scene is still calm, then suddenly the clips start... ... middle of paper ... ...e sort that could be tried at home. Also this movie will attract more viewers as it has a bigger range in age for the audience and it is a follow-on movie. People will become eager to watch the next sequel and so the movie will create an even larger audience than last time, as now much more people would have heard of the film. Also this movie trailer had a lot of voice-overs in it; these create tension and enthusiasm; making the viewers keen on the film and hence, will go and watch it. 'The Gladiator' didn't have any voice-overs and a few special effects, therefore as this trailer didn't have much of the attention grabbing material in it will not have much of an effect on the box office. Overall I think the 'Lord of the Rings III' will have a better effect on the box office and will be a much more successful movie.

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