Research and Planning - Analyse of teaser trailer 2

The second teaser trailer I'll be analysing is Sucker Punch, brought to the cinemas in 2011, age rating 12A. I've chosen to do this trailer because it fits into the type of movie I'd like to create, with it being non realistic and action packed with a female role.

Genre

The theory I mentioned from my last analysis, is the same theory within this movie.  This would be Carol Glover, stating the final girl will be terrorized throughout the movie, which is correct.  Baby Doll (the main character within this movie), is a young innocent girl taken to a home where she becomes tortured into her thoughts and battles her way through them, making the audience interact with the movie more than it would compared to a male playing this role.  This movie portrays an un-stereotypical female, who's actually "kick-ass" instead of being all sweet and innocent all the time.  This will attract a wider audience as it appeals to people as a 'different type of movie', that's bound to be different compared to a male action packed movie.

Representation

I definitely approve of Laura Mulveys theory of 'the male gaze' within this movie, as Baby Doll and the girls around her, are dressed in a way that's attractive and appealing to the audience - grabbing more attention.  The way the movie's filmed, it shows the girl's being an attractive dominant role, nothing weak and vulnerable as that wouldn't appeal to a wide audience.

Narrative

Propps theory of character types could be related to this teaser trailer, as the hero is identified as the main character which is Baby Doll - yet her 'girlfriends' could be classified as the princesses as Baby Doll seems to be the one who acts as a guardian or leader over them and they follow - so they're still a relevance of importance within the movie. The villain is the place she's being brought to that's making her challenge these thoughts, and this could also be known as the 'false hero' as at the beginning the woman states "you're safe, it's all safe" whilst she's being brought here.  However, you cannot distinguish other character types such as the father or donor etc.

Audience

For this trailer, the audience can be also passive and sit back and watch the action, although I do think there is some kind of story given through the voice overs, I don't think the audience are supposed to analyse too much, due to the action they can be passive. I think this movie will be targeted at 15's and also appeal to any social or gender.  I don't think an older age range would watch this movie as action and the whole 'female' as a hero who's seen to appeal the "male gaze" won't appeal to an older generation.

Media Language

1. The beginning the lighting is dark, yet the voice over is saying "you are safe, you're all safe". This implies some contrast between the good and bad, whether the place is actually evil due to the dark atmosphere and so are the people as they're trying to convince others they're safe
2. White uniforms implies to the audience it's some kind of medical hospice
3. Non-diegetic sound added when a fight kicks in provides a sense of battle and action within the movie
4. Grahpical visualisations of monsters implies a action, horror and fantasy theme, intising the audience
5. Mis-en-scene of the group of girls costumes differentiate themselves from "reality" when in action, intreges the audience
6. Diegetic sound of narrative and characters speaking provides a sense of narrative for the audience