The matrix trailer start with captions "In a ordinary world". The captions are in green and in capitial letters signifying that it isnt an ordinary world . as this continues through its goes to little clips of what we do consider as "normal" contradicting the firstline. then again captions come reading " you do your job" which relates to everyone watching as somoone has worked sometime in their life, but again its in green and capitials which still shows something not quite right. it continues this subtitles and cutting to clips until smething dramtic happens which draws the auidience in. Also the clips shown inbetween the subtitles are very dark and gloomy also adding to the effect that something still isnt quite right.
We then see what we presume as the main character being woken up from some kind of trance or sleep with he caption " as a slave!" this really hooks the auidience into wanting to know more and as theyve related to most of the first part they want to know why they also may be working as a slave. This turn of events makes the audience want to continue watching to see why they might be a slave.
we then see a load of different clips of different people doing what we consider to be "strange or supernatural" with a ,mirror that they can put their hand through and also childrens blocks that float in mid air. this all adds to the effect and now the auidience knowas that something definatly isnt right.
Then the secondary character then says something that makes the audience think because there is no way of proving it, which was "have you ever had a dream that you was so sure was real" and as evry one has dreams this makes the auidence think back on their own lives and makes them link the film to their own life in a different way. he then also says "if you was never to wake from the dream how would you know what was dream and what was real" this hooks the audience as there is no real way to check this and makes them think back over the dreams that they had and this makes them link more with the film and it has a more in depth link and makes them doubt their own experiences and knowledge. also the whole trailer so far has been dark lighting and dark scenes very fast cuts and cut backs which suggests that most of the film will be very fast pased and full of action. the next couple of scenes has the voce over from another scene is shows rain falling which normally suggests in action films that action is going to happen and it also add to the mood that something definatly isnt right keeping the audeince on the edge of their seat. with the added voice over saying " it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth" this changes what we think of the characters as we now believe them to be good, as we associate the truth with good and the characters on screen want the truth. It then plays on peoples emotions and morals by saying " you are a slave being born into a prison" as the auideince is now linked deeply with this film it makes them think that have they been used as a slave and makes the characters on screen become the protaganists and the auidence now wants them to continue and win the misson that they seem to be on so far.
The nexrt scene is a bit lighter and it relates back tro the auidence with a typical street youd see in a busy town with people in smart clothes leave or arriving to work and as this is saw on a wekly basis the audeince now relates to this further. As he says " the system is our enemy" we now know that theres a fight and we now know that theres an antaganist but we only know it as "the matrix.
We then cut tp a scene of a child who seems to be some kind of monk, or spirital guide who then says " you must realise the truth" this makes everyone in the auidence ask the same question as the character " what truth" the reply is " theres no spoon", the spoon then seems to melt which would startle the auidence as everyone knows spoons are made out of metal and dont just melt for no reason proving to the auideince that something else is controlling everything.
We then see what seems to be the enemy of the film the antaganist, who says "humans are a desiese" this first line automatically makes us think well what is he then if hes not human and because you cant see his eyes you cant see if he has any adding suspense and mystery to the scene. he then says "Cancer of this planet a plague" this everyone can relate to and know how serious this man/ thing is and makes us think that he must really hate humans as his ext line is "and we are the cure" then cuts to a scene of an explosion this shows the auidence along with the look of the man that he really hates the human race and weants to wipe it out. this makes the auidience root for the protaganist more.
The next scene gtives us an insite to what the matrix is as in the background s has green hollograms with numbers scrolling down showing that the matrix is somekind of computer or machine. when he then says "so your here to save us" it makes the audience warm to the protaganists even more but the next line is " were here to free your brain but i can only show you the door" this shows that its up to one person to try to save everyone and bring them back to reality this highlights one charatcer in particular and makes him the hero so to speak and the one the auidence will root for all the way through. the next scenes show just how in human the bad guys are with the facty that we see one punch through the concrete wall which we know in our minds that it isnt piossible this also adds to show that maybe this world is a dream and things are possible here also he dodges a full clip of bullets adding to the auidences thought of the film ands how theier life may be a dream to. Then its confirmed that this has gone on for a while and now there last hope is with the new agent we saw at the start of the film so that we now know all hope rests on him all throughout the film. then in the last few scenes our hope in the new agent grows as we see him dodge bullets and then right at the end everything goes into slow motion and he can dodge the bullets with ease. this shows the auidence that he is something special and that theres a good chance at winning. then to finish it off the end title adds to the effect by bieng in computer graphic sort of writing showing the auideince that its something non human that is controlling everything.
Biblography :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn2XRNaoAy0 - The Matrix Trailer. 14/09/12
http://www.matrixfans.net/ - site dedicated to the matrix. 14/09/12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix - information on the matrix.14/09/12
www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ Information on The matrix 14/09/12
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=the+matrix&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=N39ZUI496ajRBYHPgagL&biw=1024&bih=571&sei=bH9ZUMa1OqL80QXjjIGoBA - Picture of matrix 14/09/12
Filmography
Release date: March 31, 1999
Directors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski - links to information on directors.
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