During our research and planning I decided to do some research on a common factorof some trailers, and that is the voiceover. I looked at a series of different trailers both theatrical and teasers and analysed the voiceovers and the effect it had on the trailer.
Results
Pandorum
- Male voiceover
- A science fiction horror genre which was accompanied by a low toned, serious voiceover
- The voiceover asks rhetorical questions such as "What if you awoke with no more?", "what if the world you knew was gone?". This engages the audience because it is as if it is asking the audience directly.
- It also makes you want to know the answer to the questions
- The seriousness of the voice reinforces the genre
- Male voiceover
- Romantic comedy accompanied by a calm, steady voiceover
- Voiceover is based around the main character
- Gives clues to the narrative
- Talks of the multiculture in Paris
- Promotes the film becasue it makes us want to understand & get to know the character the voiceover is referring to
- Female voiceover - breaking conventions
- Computer generated, robot like tone
- Explains the main points of the narrative
- Talks about USP - surrogacy, murder
- Sets the tone for rest of trailer and film
- Tone changes once the voiceover finishes
- Male voiceover
- Low toned voiceover
- Praises main character, " dedicated family man", " devoted husband"
- Sets the tone for trailer
- Enforces opinion on audience of characters
- We get an insight into the narrative
- The voiceover stops at a point that makes the audience want to know what happens next
- Comedy film accompanied by a excitable yet still low serious voiceover
- Voicover speaks as if he is making a really important anouncement
- Gives us the basis of the narrative
- Short, rapid speech draws in the audience and doesn't give them time to loose concentration
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