Godzilla trailer

The Godzilla trailer uses extreme long shots as the trailers establishing shots, this shows the audience a plane crash on a highway this could make them confused because they don't know how it crashed or what caused it, we also have an extreme long shot of a power station being destroyed, this would continue to confuse the audience posing questions like what is causing these disasters? The narration at the start of the trailer gives exposition, on what was going on at these disaster areas, it could also hint at the power of Godzilla without actually showing the monster. For transitions they appear to use fade in shots, this makes the transition seem as if we are watching some kind of chase as we see multiple areas attacked. We also see the statue of liberty damaged, this could be seen as symbolic because it is not the real statue as it is in the middle of the desert, and it is damaged possibly suggesting the USA is being attacked as a whole.

The trailer also shows the main protagonist, Bryan Cranston, this provides a huge unique selling point because he is a very well known awarding winning actor, he is also very popular, this is likely to draw a large number of people to the film because his appearance as a main character. The audience is also given several glimpses throughout the trailer of Godzilla, the first is it swimming underneath some ships and causing a tsunami, this gives an idea of enormity and size to Godzilla. We then see Godzilla revealed at the end of the trailer during a montage of shots, this would make the audience very excited because Godzilla is a kind of cult movie character and, this film seems to show a realistic twist on the monster.

There are several shots in the trailer suggesting the film is a action film these include the large fire seen behind the hill, which suggests there has been some fighting in the film, another clip is the Army in the boats at see, this suggesting they are waiting to attack something, this kind of action is what we expect to see from action films like this. We are alos shown an extreme long shot of San Fransico which conforms to the idea that this film is in the action genre because the this shot shows us destruction on an enourmous scale, this could also be used to show the size of Godzilla which would awe the audience.

The trailer would also make people think about themselves as Humans, as the "Arrogance of Man" line in the trailer makes us think about our place in this world and it also seems to point out that we are not the only ones who live on this planet and we should respect that idea. The trailer itself is slow paced with a gap of around 5 seconds on most clips, however at the end of the trailer we see the gap between clips decrease to show us a montage of action clips, this hints at the danger and the action in the film, however the film doesn't show to much otherwise it might give away some of the key moments. The sound in the film, is a kind of howling and choir singing louder and louder, there are also brief interruptions of the 'inception howl,' this brings more tension to the trailer until the end montage which is fast paced sound adding the excitement to this trailer.