Taken Trailer

This trailer is symbolic of a thriller genre, it uses fast paced effects and music to show that it is an exhilerating, fast paced movie, and at times slows down to keep us in suspence. The plot and story line is very realistic as it puts forward the fears of every parent, their child being kidnapped. The location and story of the film is based on social realism since the girl is kidnapped in a house after persuading her father to allow her to go on holiday with her friends. The actual context of this film is that one of the main protagonist (daughter) has a convoluted relationship with her father, they are unable to communicate and bond properly this could be due to him being divorced with her mother, this sets of a rockey relationship between the two characters, therefore the father is somewhat over protective over her and does not find it apporiate for her to go to Paris with her friend, the fact that he was a police officer before emphasizes his reasoning for her not to go alone with her friend, as he has experiences and heard of kiddnappings before, although this is the understated storyline it is not shown in the trailer as this would not portray a 'Thriller' genre, it would more or less deplict a 'Family drama' which is not what was intentioned. In a majority of film trailers the motive is to attract the audiences attention, and depending on the genre of film, the technique of doing this changes, in most Thriller genres it is most common that the trailers sequence is not in chronological order, the most significant parts and the best shots are invested in it, so that it attracts the audiences attention, therefore it is not in the sequential order. Within the film and as seen in the trailer there are many stereotypical characters, the male protagonist is exposed as being the hero, and the daughter as representing the convention of the damsel in distress. Their is a worried mother and a man who decides to literally ‘buy’ the female lead as our villain, as well as her friend who is the cause of their kidnapping.

In my opinion this trailer through many techniques and effects reflects the conventions of a thriller movie, in shot 0.20-0.22 their is an effect of flashing thunder this shows the change from their everyday environment of a normal life to a more energetic and stimulating one. Many of these flashing effects occur throughout the trailer, in one way or another this could be considered as perfetic fallacy, as it reflects the mood of the actual film that it is dangerous and exciting, in the shot 0.32-0.47 the flashing light represents this idea.