Trailer In-Depth Analysis

The company that released the trailer for Fast and Furious 7 typically release trailers before their films come out. These films are usually very fast paced and full of excitement. /this is what the audience look for when viewing their film or a trailer for the film.

Structural Conventions: These shots vary between different shots very quickly, and these fit the conventions of a thrilling film because it is very fast-paced and therefore keeps the audience interested. As the other films of this genre, there are lots of tracking shots which follow the cars as they drive off. There are also lots of long shots and some over the shoulder shots. The protagonist is seen easily as being the one who saves the others from the car crash, and this is shown through the use of long shots and panning shots to capture in everything that is happening.

Camera Shot, Angle, Movement: The shots used in this trailer is mid shots, close ups, establishing shots which are also panning shots. There is a dramatic over-the-shoulder shot between two characters, that seems to suggest a power imbalance. This is shown from a slightly high angle shot.

Editing: The editing is very fast paced between different shots and narratives. This builds tension within the different shots and keeps the audience watching it and not getting distracted.

Sound element: The non-diegetic soundtrack is fast paced, which keeps in sync with the pace of the shots that have been edited. There is a range of non-diegetic voiceovers and a soundtrack, and there is also a lot of diegetic sounds, which fits well with the narrative because there is a lot of cars.

Interviews: there is no interviews in this video as it doesn't document anything, it is a dramatic advertisement for an upcoming film at the time. Documentaries are much more likely to contain interviews, and the only types of trailers that would have interviews would be subverting a usual film connotation.

Titles: There is a lot of different types of titles, most are advertising the producers and distributors of the film, but there is actually the real title of the film,

Genre: The genre for the film is established through the use of slow-motion long shots showing the cars and the guns, and this makes the genre established because usual thriller films are shown with things like that.