bullet boy trailer

The narrative for the film Bullet Boy is: about a man recently off parole attempting to straighten out his life, with negative results.
While on his way home from prison with his friend Wisdom, a wing mirror is hit off of another gangster's car by Wisdom who refuses to pay for it. Ricky, played by Ashley Walters, hides a gun in his room which his little brother Curtis finds.
Wisdom attempts to hunt down the gang member, named Godfrey, for spreading word that he doesn't want to fight, and to get revenge shoots his stafforshire terrier that he threatened Wisdom with earlier. As a result, Godfrey destroys Wisdom's car with a baseball bat and drives past his home shouting that he is "dead". Wisdom tries to kill Godfrey before he gets killed by him himself, but fails and is seen by Godfrey.
As the two flee from here, Curtis accidentally shoots his friend Rio when Rio suggests they take the gun out and play with it, and their mother eventually asks Ricky to leave the home.
Just before heading home, he goes to Wisdom's house to get the money Wisdom told him to take before he left, only to find Wisdom dead, presumably at the hands of his rival, he leaves after sitting there for a long time thinking. As he packs his bags, he asks Curtis to go to the takeaway and get a kebab, and when Curtis returns, his brother has already left. As Ricky is waiting at the train station, two gangsters approach him.
As Ricky is about to run away, Godfrey comes out and shoots him six times in the chest. His body is later identified, and the film ends with Curtis reclaiming the gun from where he hid it and throwing it in to the river.

setting of the in the trailer is seen as being a slum or ghetto, this is easily said because the typical stereo type attached to a area inhabited by people of a African Caribbean origins is normally seen as being a ghetto. In the trailer there is a distinctive image of a tower block, this is a sign of poverty in London and is therefore associated with the black ethnicity and poverty of London, this puts a sense of reason in the audiences minds, as they can see that there is a poverty struck area, gangs are inevitable, gang wars are inevitable and crime in all shapes and forms are inevitable.

Toderovs theory of equilibrium is not easily done for trailers as it mostly applies to the films, but from the trailer you can see that there is no set equilibrium in the start, you can see a state of equilibrium when there is a scene where the protagonist hugs his brother and there is a scene where the car is going through the streets, you could say that this is the equilibrium because everyday struggles are expected in the ghetto. disequilibrium happens when the police raid his house and keeps everybody at gun point, there is a reason to that but the audience doesn't find out until the next scene in which the little brother of the protagonist is holding a gun. only a glimpse of new equilibrium is seen when at the end of the trailer when there are two boys running through the field.

super bad analysis

General background info:
Superbad" is an American comedy, released in the summer of 2007. The film is casted under the sub genre of 'Teen movie'. It with the typical conventions found in the genre of comedy and sub genre of teen movie i.e. sex and drugs. examples of other typical movies wich share the same conventions as super bad would be "American Pie", "The Girl Next Door" and "mean girls". The film proved to be a very successfull film and won alot of awards.

Characters:
All characters shown in the film have very typical status's in school, Fogell is the Geek, Seth is the Rebel and Evan is the underdog. Their roles are represented through their actions and behaviour. the behaviour shown by the geeks is that of which is typical of highschool kids, they are not excepted in normal and social society so they form there own hierachy in which there is a dominant male (seth) the unknown boy (fogell) and the inocent boy (evan).

Narrative:
The narrative of this film is very easily predicted, the odvious there will be a big party, there needs to be booze but someone cannot get it so its left up to a random guy. The protagonist of the film almost always serves as an underdog. He falls for a girl that is much much more popular than he is, therefore in order to get her to notice him he trys to impress her in a number of different ways. For example, purchasing alcohol.

Iconography:
The 3 boys attempt to use a fake ID to purchase alcohol to give to the girl that Evan is 'in love with' and by doing this Evan would 'impress her . From the fact that 3 boys who are in high school have purchased a fake ID to buy alcohol, viewers can connote they may be buying the alcohol to get girls drunk in order to sleep with them. this glamourises the use of alchol.).

harry potter

Questions on the harry potter trailer

1) The key points highlighted in the trailer are that the lord voldermort has returned and that he is gathering dark forces in an attempt to destroy good magic. They have purposely done that to ensure that the audience have an insight of what will occur, and for those who have been following the sequels it is one of the main points of the harry potter story.
2) The genre of the film is a fantasy adventure, and this is set up the epic music, as the deep bass creates tension and in the music you can hear that there are high and low points. The mise-en scene also sets up the genre by using clouds and mist to create tension and a sense of mystery. The details of the film are set up in the traditional harry potter style font and this is how you know that it is a continuation.
3) The target audience would be people aged between 8-18 year olds, this is because the film is has a typical scenario of good vs evil and this is normally watched by people of all ages.
4) It shows most of the films main highlights, e.g. magical bouts and imagery of his relations with his close family and friends.
5) The narrator explains detailed parts of the film e.g. when he tells of voldermorts return and voldermorts past life and memories of him and past knowledge of him and what he has done to sabotage the good magic.
6) 1) they always show the rating
2) The comments received by newspapers
3) they show the distributors names
4) they give a list of the main characters
5) they sometimes show deleted parts of the film
6) the directors name is also given