Friday 25 January 2013

1930s-1940s trailers

After looking at modern trailers and the clips from the 1940s i felt that it would be prudent to research trailers of films within the 1930- 1940s genre.

Dracula was made in 1931 so its a little earlier than the speech but it matched a lot of the army propaganda clips that i had researched earlier right down to the voiceover and the block text atop the images. The clips themselves are very slow and the trailer is predominately made up of the voice over which in comparison to the modern trailers looks incredibly bland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpve3W6sq0U



The phantom of the opera trailer was made in 1943 and unlike the clip above the voice over was limited to the beginning of trailer - the rest is "dramatic" segments from the show although they lack fluency which makes the entire trailer disjointed, i also really hate the bold titles appearing on top of images which i shall take into consideration when placing my kinetic text.





Much like the phantom of the Opera this jungle book 1940's trailer manipulates a similar opening voice over and opening title sequence. The snippet of film are a little more fast paced but again there isn't a clear focus or drama which i think slows the pace. the music doesn't enhance or mirror any of the clips, again something that i shall carefully plan since i don't want my background music to over or under whelm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyESu-Zu9bI

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