When watching the trailer, the first thing that we notice is the music. The first thing that grips us is this deep meaningful music that sets a calm/sad mood, setting up the audience seeing the character we all know to be superman floating in the water with rubble and wood all around him, from this we get the sense that chaos has won, Superman has been beaten. This makes the audience question everything within the film, Who beat superman? How was he beaten? ect. Making the audience want to see what fate has been pus toed upon the loved character.
The trailer jumps around from Clark Kent's adult life and his child life, indicating that his younger life is just as important as his life as Superman. We are restricted by the trailer not showing us many of the iconic things of superman, such as the the cape, or his ability to fly. This builds suspense for the film, allowing the audience to get their blood pumping for what is to come within the film, towards the end of the trailer both the cape and Superman flying is shown, this allows the audience to relax, but still want more, they know that this is going to show the life of Clark Kent and his change into Superman, but it will also show the Superman that we all know and love. This is going to make the audience want to see it. Other Superman films have gone over his life as a child but only briefly, we never fully know what life was like for him as a child. This allows us to find out, this is one of the key USPs of the film, that we get to see weather Clark found it easy to hide his powers or if it was very difficult, was he one of the populars or was he left out. All these questions will be answered in this film, and that is what people want to see. They know the story of superman, they want to see something new, something never before seen, something that they can walk away from with a smile on their face and a topic of conversation for the weeks ahead. This trailer give this atmosphere to Man of Steel.
Super Man is known for having many spectacular powers which to humans are physically impossible. Such as Flying, Super Strength, Lazer Vision ect. All of these powers would need to be created with special/visual effects. Special effects would be such things as pulley systems connected to a bus so when Clark Kent lifts it up it looks like he is doing it with his incredible strength when in reality people off screen are making the bus lift. Visual effects would be Superman's lazer eyes, this would be done post-production, using computer software the team who edit the film together would add in effects that make Superman look like he is really shooting lazers out of his eyes. All of these, when seen on screen, seem amazing to watch, they make the films look even more spectacular than before. Special effects don't make a film what it is, but they sure do help make it all it can be. The well put together combined special and visual effects allow the audience to see no different from real life and what has been edited in, allowing the audience to become fully amerced within the film.
Action, this is one of the main genres that are known and loved by many different people, action give the audience that moment of release where they can just sit back and watch something that is going to show them excitement, risk, love, hate, and many other things. Action is used to escape the boring life that we live and be replaced by a world of pure adrenalin. Moving into the sub-genre, Superhero films, Superman is one of the biggest superheros known to man, you can ask any person if they know who superman is and the answer will most likely always be the same. Superhero films allow us to see the impossible, people are always saying that 'you can't do this' or 'you can't do that', superhero films take those statement and chuck them out the window, because that's what makes them great. People want to see something that is going to amaze them, make them want to be that person that they see on the screen in front of them. Using the world of imagination and bringing people out of their everyday life and giving them something to think and wish about. Giving them that excitement that we want everyday in our lives.
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