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Trailer Analysis – The Purge

Bradley Dimberline

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The opening scene of this trailer shows what seems to be a family walking off into the sunset holding hands. This image is a positive one and sets the film up to be a happy family story when in actual fact is quite the opposite. The subjects in this scene are all silhouettes connoting that they are walking off into the distance and the story is coming to it’s end, however, because this has been placed at the start, it could instead mean that the happiness and solidarity in their family is coming to an end in place of the story that is just beginning. We can see the sun coming up which could mean this scene is taking place the day of the purge before it all starts so they can be together for potentially the final time so they're trying to make the most of it. Along with the positive image, the writing in the opening scenes are following the same sort of positive theme with quotes like “unemployment is at 1%” “crime is at an all-time low” again leading the audience to believe that this is an uplifting film.

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However, in this scene, we see the line “because one night a year” followed by CCTV footage of people being viciously attacked either with weapons or without. Most of these attacks show groups targeting one helpless person and beating them to death. This is where we see that not all is what it seems in the opening scene. The violence shown is separated from the happy family smiling and waving by a second-long black screen reading “because one night a year”. Because what we see comes from nothing and its quite confusing for the audience as to why this is happening, the scenes and images come as quite a shock to the audience making the actual scene look worse than it would do if we were introduced to the film in a more negative light instead of seeing happy families and positive figures showing things change for the better. This is followed by the line “all crime is legal”. We as an audience then understand why we saw what we did seconds before and from this one line, we get a big picture for what we can expect to see in this film as it makes us think about the chaos this would cause if it was a real annual “holiday”.

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the first image shows a computerised security system that we wouldn’t see in our reality. the word 'arm is usually affiliated with danger and preparing to cause chaos in one way or another. in this format, the word is used on quite the contrary as they're using this preparation to keep away from all the chaos that is going outside, keeping the family safe because as we see on the second picture, metal barricades are coming down from the top of the doors and windows. from what we see here, they have gone to a lot of trouble and spent a lot of money to get the highest standard of protection. soon after, the image of an over the shoulder shot of the TV screen with the title of 'Emergency Broadcast System' is shown and as an audience, we can start to anticipate how extreme this one night of the year really is and how terrifying it would be for just a normal family who don’t want anything to do with this 'holiday', this starts to create a tense medium for the audience because we expect the worst.

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Up until this point, there hasn’t been anything that would really scare the viewer or make them feel uncomfortable in their seat. then we are shown a black screen with the writing "from the producer of Paranormal Activity" "and Sinister" which are widely known as films in the Horror genre and we start to realise that what we have seen so far may not be what the film will be like throughout. after the second film is mentioned, sinister, we are cut straight to an image that would make the viewer feel quite intimidated in a way. the first thing we see here is of course the man wearing a sinister-looking face mask looking straight into the lens of the camera, which feels to the audience like he's looking straight into their eyes which will make them feel like he's looking at them creating a more tense atmosphere. In this shot, we are looking at CCTV footage from around the outside of house the film is based in and we see people dressed strangely holding weapons which makes us feel on edge like there's only going to be one outcome.

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towards the end of this trailer, we see a quick sequence of short snippets of different scenes that are filled with some of the more tense moments of the film, for example the girl hiding under the bed with a boot right next to her face and also the moments of action that we see, for example when the man who owns the house goes to strike someone who broke in with a weapon. this shows the audience that there is going to be a lot of scenes in the film where we are on the edge of our seat and there will always be something going on so we wont be bored. I would want to do something like this when it comes to making my trailer because I can really show the audience a lot of action in a short amount of time to get them excited about what they're seeing and make them want to see more. using this technique towards the end is very cleaver because they're left wanting to see more and it also leaves the audience with unanswered questions that theyd want to look more into, the only way to do that would be to watch the film itself.


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