Language Used in Two Trailers for Bend It Like Beckham

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Language Used in Two Trailers for Bend It Like Beckham

A trailer is supposed to promote a certain movie that is coming soon

on DVD or in the cinema. They could be action, trailers, romance

trailers, or detective trailers. For example if it was a action

trailer it could include a fight scene blood, fire arms and cool

stunts, but if it was a romance film it might include some slow music

at the beginning, a candle light at dinner with someone you love or a

red flower because the colour red connotes love happiness and peace

between the lovers. We have been studying two trailers from the movie

“Bend it like Beckham”. The first trailer might be targeted to teen

girls because in the first trailer the girls dominate it most of the

time like when Jess’s mother says to Gary Linekar that he and the

other two men shouldn’t be encouraging Jess to play football. I.e. she

is shouting at the men so she is dominating the spotlight. The second

movie might be more for the male teenagers because at the beginning

the boys make fun of Jess playing football. I.e. that means that the

boys have dominated the spotlight this time. I will use the Narrative,

how the film is sequenced, Editing, adding big words to provide

anchorage, Sound, to add voice over like the heart beating and the

breathing. I will use all these aspects to contrast and compare the

two trailers.

Mise en scène means how the actors, the costumes, the props and the

setting are arranged in each frame. The mise en scène in both trailers

is very different because for example in the beginning of the first

trailer it is introduced with an Indian wedding and the second one is

introduced with players working out a voice over a heart beating and

breathing. This is a great effect on the genre that most of the first

trailer is dominated by girls as I have already explained in the

introduction. I can prove this by looking back at the costume, props,

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