Trailer Research - Taken

Taken Trailer

The film I am analysing is ‘Taken’. I chose to analyse this film as we have already looked at it beforehand for our film last year, and as our film this year is a carry on it compares well and still holds everything we want in our film. The trailer itself is bad quality, but still shows the aspects on which we want to use.

Aspects of the trailer we enjoyed

Whilst watching the trailer for Taken, I really enjoyed the flashes of light effects showing the change from every scene, creating a fast pace for the trailer and setting the normal speed throughout. The story of the film is shown really well, and we get a clear idea of what the film will consist and who the main character is and what he has to do. The music in the film is really well done as it creates a dramatic atmosphere throughout, and keeps up with the speed of how quick the trailer is going. As the trailer goes in it picks up pace, bringing the idea of adrenaline and wanting to know what’s going to happen next, which we aim to produce.

How we plan to take these aspects into our film

Aspects we can use from the trailer of Taken, is the torture scene we are shown, when the male is strapped into the chair and the main character is interrogating him whilst showing a photo. We possibly might use this in our trailer to show the seriousness of what we want to accomplish and how the main character Liam, will do whatever is necessary to finish his mission. Also we aim to take the flashback effects which I have mentioned before into our film when the fight scene is taking place, as each hit is shown, it changes to another short clip of Dhuran and Jason in chase.

In our trailer idea, we are thinking of doing a split screen between me and Nathan as Taken has done. It will hopefully produce and build up tension for the scene and give the effect we are aiming for.

Aspects we didn’t enjoy

One of the aspects that I didn’t enjoy was that the film I thought gave away too much of the story, it told clearly what was happening, what was going to happen, and what he can perform. So it shows no surprises.

What I though about the trailer

I personally thought the film gave away to much information. However then effects used and the transitions between each scene are done perfectly for what the trailer is trying to produce. Also by showing a lot of the action scenes it will cause the audience leaving on edge and wanting to know what will happen next, which will result in people buying to see the film. The trailer for ‘Taken’ in all is very useful for our trailer idea, and has a lot of effects we wish to use and incorporate into our own.

 Lewis Kerr