Guardians Of The Galaxy trailer analysis

The trailer starts with a black background that fades into a scene that shows a long shot of the our main protagonist. As the screen fades from black to meeting our first protagonist,non digetic music starts as the doors start to open for the character suggesting that the audience are going to be taken on an adventure with this character leading them through the experience. From a first look the setting looks like a secret entrance through a cave due to its rocky walls and secret doors. The lighting is dark around the entrance but one light shines through onto our main protagonist suggesting that he is the main hero in this movie. The screen then fades back to black then fades into a new scene which is an over the shoulder shot showing the same character holding an object. The character is mainly dark not allowing the audience to see the characters clothing but one light is shown on another object directly in front of the character suggesting that this is what he is looking for. The next scene shows a mid-shot of our character who uses his torch to create light-this allows the audience to finally see who the character is and work out what he is doing. The character is wearing a burgundy jacket with symbols on them with a green top on underneath. The character also has a satchel and a torch-all of this suggests that the character is looking for something but the audience have to wait and see what that is. The symbols and markings on the doors and the characters clothing creates enigmas for the audience; they don't know who the character is yet. As the music intensifies the camera cuts to a mid-shot behind the character and slowly pans away-this allows the audience to see what the character is looking at and the non digetic music suggests that the character is getting closer and closer to what he is looking for. The camera then fades to a new low angle shot showing our protagonist removing something from his head which a lot like headphones and as he starts to walk forward the music again intensifies. The use of a low angle shot allows the audience to see the full body of the character showing us that he is wearing black trousers and black boots-this doesn't help the audience to know what this character is doing as his clothing is casual. We then fade into a new shot showing our protagonist looking at an object, most likely the object he is looking for, that seems to be in the shape of a ball but the outer shell looks to be made out of some sort of metal-this links to the title and genre as we know this film is set in space, thanks to the title "Guardians Of The Galaxy", and the genre is sci-fi which includes futuristic objects. The camera then cuts to a close up of our characters face allowing the audience to see the emotion of the character. We then have an extreme close up of the characters hand as he takes the object. The next scene has an over the shoulder shot showing the audience a group of armed people aiming their weapons at our protagonist-this suggests that the object is very important and was kept safe and locked away. The group of armed characters seem to wearing a silver, cyborg like, armour which is a typical convention of a sci-fi film. We then get a closer look at the armed men as they approach our protagonist where we can then see the weapons they are holding. The weapons appear to be a futuristic gun suggesting that these men are soldiers-this creates many more enigmas for the audience as they are wondering what this object is and why is it so important. The next scene is then a close up of our protagonist who announces who he is to the response of "Who!?" which shows the audience that our protagonist is not very well known in the galaxy.

The traditional marvel logo then appears and a new non digetic music starts. We then see some new equipment showing the audience that this is a sci-fi film. The camera then fades into a new scene which shows new characters being identified by what we believe are the police force of the galaxy. The camera then zooms in on a character named Drax who has greyish skin with red markings all across his body suggesting that he is a warrior of sort, which is confirmed to be true by the dialogue between the officers. We then meet another character named Gamora who has green skin and is a female protagonist-this is interesting as we haven't seen a female in this trailer yet which would interest those of both genders in the audience. Our female protagonist seems to be wearing a black sort of clothing that seems very light in weight and not very protective, which is linked with the dialogue as we find out she is an assassin. The next character is Rocket, who is a raccoon, and he seems to be wearing an orange body guard which is to protect himself. The next scene is a two-shot which shows our two officers and one of them says "What the hell?" this creates excitement as the audience know it's going to be something extraordinary. The "extraordinary something" is confirmed as we are introduced to Groot through a mid-shot where we only see his tree-like body. The fact that the creature is tree-like creates a positive image in the audiences minds as trees connote life and protection, which is proven as Groot is Rockets friend and body guard.

In the next scene we have a mid-shot of four of the five protagonists, digetic music is played which causes our protagonist Star-Lord to confront an alien officer. The digetic music then becomes non digetic in the next scene as we have a long shot of a space craft that flies towards the camera. Then the camera jump cuts to a new location where we see a character holding two guns with non digetic drums in the background suggesting that the plot is thickening. The camera then jump cuts to new scenes showing other villains which causes the drums to become louder-this suggests that these characters will prove to be problems for our heroes.The drumming then stops and we have a mid-shot of Groot and Rocket shooting and fighting. We then have a mid-shot of Star-Lord which turns into a close up showing us an angry expression on his face suggesting that something bad has happened which excites the audience.

The next shot is a mid-shot of Gamora who is standing in a provocative pose-this adds romance to the film which would interest the female audience members. It also conforms the stereotype that woman are sex objects as it shows her standing to her side but naked.

The character Gamora subverts the stereotype that woman are weaker than men as she is very strong and has won many battles. She also has a masculine structure that helps her in battles throughout the film but in the trailer we only see Gamora objectified whereas we see the other characters strengths.

Overall the trailer interacts with its audience through the use of mise-en-scene and editing to show the true strengths of our heroes, not Gamora though, and the problems they will face. The editing links with the digetic and non digetic sound throughout the trailer starting as a calm adventure and then coming an intense,action packed experience.