2012 Comparison

The teaser trailer for 2012 is one the few trailers which had actual footage from the film while still not tell us, the audience next to nothing about the narrative. Only one scene was shown of what seemed to be a monk, who was banging a gong as a avalanche approached him. This leads us the audience to wonder what it’s going on, and put the pieces together. Like why was he banging a gong, was it to warn other people, and why did the avalanche suddenly appear. The teaser left us with many questions. For a teaser trailer it had a lot of dramatic camera angles and special effects. This many due to the movie being finished or near to it. The full-length trailer did feature more scenes of the actual film, characters and more natural disasters. I must note that there was no speech in the teaser trailer and no mention of any cast, but in the full length trailer, that was all the complete opposite. what I find similar between both the teaser trailer and the full length one is that, when you are finished watching both of them, you have many questions which you want the answer to. which I believe was the main objective of the trailers. Also the scene from the teaser trailer was use in the full length trailer too, maybe for continuity between them. which makes them both similar in a sense.

TOY STORY 3 teaser

The teaser trailer told next to nothing about the films narrative, however the teaser trailer did tell us that the film is coming in a year’s time. The teaser also featured characters from previous films, indicating them most likely being in this film. The main theme song played in the background throughout the sequence and the footage ran for about a minute and a half. The whole teaser was only about the characters of the film building the logo of the film with toys however Buzz lightyear builds a better logo and so on. No footage of the actual film was shown, and one camera shot was used to shown many of the characters on screen and a few tracking shots too.