Week 11 - Film trailer analysis - Jurassic world

Jurassic World (2015)

Jurassic World (2015) is a movie in sequels to ‘Jurassic Park’ series. The outline of the story is about 22 years after the original Jurassic Park failed. A new dinosaur theme park, known as Jurassic World, is open on the same site of the original park for business. Then, the scientists in the theme park creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, to raise the popularity of the park. Unexpectedly, everything goes wrong when the dinosaur break from its cage, which lead to the responsibility of the heroes in the story.

This movie was out in 2015 from USA. It was directed by Colin Trevorrow and was produced by Universal studio. There are plenty of famous actors, like Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, as the main casts. The budget for this film is estimated about $150,000,000. The genres of this movie are action, adventure, and sci-fi. It’s also rated PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril.

Analysis of the trailer

In this movie’s trailer, there are 3 key scenes acting like an introduction to the movie, which are the parts that refers to the past sequels, the peaceful scene, and when things go wrong. This is often a similar pattern of introducing a movie, which brings curiosity of what will happen next to the audiences and makes genres of the movie (action, adventure, sci-fi) recognizable. It gives clues about the story when the group of protagonists travel to the park of dinosaur, mentioning about a new dinosaur that was genetically edited, then shows the sign that the dinosaur can leak out of its cage through the scene of running and violence.

The audios also help to make the trailer become more intense. The dialogues of the characters help in giving clues of narrative since the start of the trailer. In 0:10 of the trailer, the woman said, “And remember, if something chases you, run”, which can already refer to what might happen when they visit the dinosaur park. For soundtrack, the music gets more intense when they show the scenes of various dinosaurs to show how enormous, majestic, and formidable they are. However, instead of using more intense sound at the scene of dinosaurs leaking, they use the calming notes music that refer to the past sequel movies’ recognizable soundtrack in Jurassic Park, which reminds of how the same tragedy will be repeated again.

For other information in the trailer, they show the production studio logo first to say that this movie is from the famous studio and has high-quality production. The released date often shows up from the beginning to the end, which helps notify and makes the audiences feel more excited to see. The name of the producer is also mentioned early as he is famous. Most of wording parts only appear to say the released dated and mentioning how this movie relates to the past sequel movies. The name of the movie is shown at the end of the trailer with some more exciting scenes. The names of some exclusive production are shown at the very last second as some excessive information for the audiences for considering seeing more.

References:

IMDb (2015). Jurassic World, [online] Retrieved from: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369610/ [Accessed January 22 2021]

Universal Pictures (2014). Jurassic World - Official Trailer (HD), [online] Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFinNxS5KN4 [Accessed January 23 2021]