Godzilla Trailer.

Camera:

The Godzilla trailer opens with an establishing shot of city skyline. This shows where they are and what time of day it is. When you first see the man in a high angle shot, you see him as he is about to walk down the pier. Because they use a high angle shot, it shows the man being smaller and suggests that he is part of the lower class. It gives a feeling to the audience that they are in charge and are above them because they know what’s going to happen. As the man continues to walk on the pier, the camera goes to a low angle shot and uses tracking. This shows the binary opposite to before because now the camera is showing the man to seem bigger than he is, as though he may know what’s going to happen.

The next shot shows the main character sitting on the edge of the pier fishing, and this is a medium shot. The shot is now showing the man at eye level. The camera then focuses on the fishing rod in his hand, perhaps identifying that something suspicious will happen that includes this object.

The camera then shows a medium/long-shot which shows the man in front of water.

After this shot, the director went into an extreme long-shot where the man is running along the pier. This indicates what’s going on in the background, but also so you can watch what is happening in the foreground. The camera then flips to a birds eye view which can show all the action happening at one point in time.

You then see the titles, and then see a person in the back of a car that includes debris flying around at the back. This is done through a point of view shot.

Editing:

During the trailer, the pace is slower because there are little cuts. This creates a calm mood. More cuts occur when the action starts, which indicates that the scene is more developed and creates a sense of time passing quicker than it is.

Sound:

The audio for the opening of the trailer has a calming background music that is smooth and has the normal conversations over the top. The audience can relate this to their lives, creating a normal sense, which will not indicate any sort of event to occur. The music then speeds up and gets louder, which shows that action is going to happen. The music becomes jumpy and includes sudden stops, instead of being smooth as before. The voices stop and you cannot here them anymore, and when the word ‘godzilla’ comes up, you hear the background noise of screaming. This makes the film seem scarier for the audience.

Mise-en-scene:

When the film starts, you see that it is set within a quiet fishing village, this is the first time you see the outside and is not somewhere where you sense that action will happen. Instead of being sunny, it is raining, which creates a darker tone and that the main character is bad. You do not see Godzilla until the ends of the clip, which then you only get to see an eye of.

Typography:

Godzilla words are the first piece of text that you see. These words have a green and white glowing effect behind them and are mainly in black. ‘Size does matter’ in white, glowing letters which are big. These are the only words that are bigger than the Godzilla letters which suggests that the phrase is more important than the film title itself, and indicates that it’s the most important thing in the film and will come up again.