The first trailer that I am going to analyse is a 2 minutes and 18 seconds trailer called 'Me Before You', a romantic drama film directed by Thea Sharrock (an English director) and produced by Karen Rosenfelt & Alison Owen.
The movie was published on the third of june, 2016 in the United States and it has raised more than $207 million in the world. Also it has been distributed by the warner Bros. Picture.
Me before you has received mixed reviews by cristics and more positive from the audience.
This film from the trailer promises a new great love story, those that hurts and would make that anyone look for a love like that, clearly is a feminine film. This movie is made to make people cry also because even though you have a cold heart this story about freedom, love and meet someone will make you feel at least a bit sad. In that sense the film 'me before you', is very romantic, emotional and filled with a lot of drama which make that people connected with their emotional side completely in tune with the story.
Just at the beginning of the trailer we can see three logos of different companies of production, apart from the one that I said above, the warner bros you can also look that there are two more, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and New Line Cinema.
Well, the last one that I have mentioned was first a particular distributor, then a few days later it becomes to produced independently and finally the New line cinema is a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
The name of Metro Goldwyn Mayer comes from the three companies that form a corporate merger to create MGM studios, and this are:
-Metro Picture Corporation
-Goldwyn Picture Corporation
-Mayer pictures
Continuing with the analysis, after the logos, the opening of the trailer is an aerial shot which shows clearly to the audience where the scenes will take place. This shot can be sometimes confused with a establishing or wide shot. Also I have notice that most of the time this types of shots usually comes together with some music about nature or whatever, but in this case it is dialogue because you can hear since the beginning the voice of the characters.
Since this shot and also in this scene you can hear clearly the mixture of music and dialogue.
Also we can say that the film will take place in the countryside, because it does not look like a city at all and also because of the rural houses that you can see from that point of view.
Another point which I just noticed is that both of the scenes have a small duration, at least in comparison with other trailers which spends a certain time with each aerial shot. Which is normal due to its purpose.
Carrying on, some Over the shoulder shots will be found to establish the position of each character and get the feel of looking at one person from the others point of view.
This shot make you feel like you are talking with the oposite character.
It is common to cut between this shots during a conversation.
Here I put two examples in which you can realize that the protagonist, Louisa Clark appears in both.
In the first picture she is trying to find a job persuading the man telling that she accepts anything and finally in the second picture she found a job which consists on taking care of Will Trainor, the main character.
In that specific situation he still a bit confused and with negative mind and you can see this when he say that people go to that place when they get tired of living. By the opposite she is really happy and tries to transmit some happiness to him.
Later there is an eyeline match shot, this consist on focusing first the character and then cut to show what the character is looking at. Here I post two examples. In the first case in the right the camera first focus the woman and then cut to show the place where the she is going to be working.
Around 2 seconds before this shot you can hear that the soundtrack is a background dialogue matching with a instrumental music.
At that moment she is like impressed with the situation and she says that she has never worked in something like that but she is sured that she will learn.
By the other hand we have the pictures of the left. Right in this moment, he, Will Trainor , the man who need help is going to meet the person who is going to be taking care of him apart from other thing. It seems that to will it has not been a great moment, he said that his brain is not paralyzed, as saying that he can speak.
Right in this long shot the music become to have letter and the soundtracking changes completely for a happiness one.
In general in turns to another emotional mode when the camera changes from focusing the mid shot of the girl entering through the door to focus another one but with the man sitting on the chair
Between both picture you can notice that the key lighting changes from a hight lighting to a low lighting. The right examples show a different facial expression than the left one. She is happy so it is coordinated with the ambient color and the sound, but he is not, you can see this easily and also you can realized that maybe he feels normal but he don't want to show it. Here we can be talking about body language which indicate how a character feels towards another character or may reflect the state of their relationship.
You can clearly see that he did not assume yet that someone is going to be taking care of him. Probably this shows lack of maturity.
If you hear you can see that the background sound in this part apart from the music is the voice of she talking with her friend but not coordinated with the scene.
Like you can see after, it belongs to the scene of both friends in the bed. She is telling to her friend that he hates her.
Some used of high angle which shows inferiority and two shot on this part of the trailer.
This is the scene where the background noise comes from.
In this part of the trailer he will change his physical appearance unexpectedly.
The main purpose is that the audience finds the change in the character. As if it becomes a totally different person. It changes from a solitary man who never smiles to a smiley person who wants to live the life.
Here is the change.
Something happens with Will that makes that she feels scared.
A short tracking movement at the moment when she is crossing the door.
Looking at this image you can see what she feels. She will be with and helping him for ever.
At the end he tells her that she is the reason why he wakes up everyday in the morning.
In this trailer the audience will know the name of the movie when the trailer finishes.
And then a small sentence promoting the film.
