R&P Pacific Rim trailer analysis.

Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro and featuring actors such as Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman. Although most of the cast is derived from actors that have not yet made a name fro themselves in the movie industry, del Toro certainly has with titles such as Hellboy, and the director of Pacific Rim, is one of the unique selling points of the film. Have a well respected director at the helm of such a big Hollywood blockbuster is sure to attract an audience.

The plot of the film from what we can see in the trailer is some kind of alien life from has invaded the earth, but not from space, but from the pacific ocean and humanity has to fight these aliens, so the build giant fighting robots called jaeger's with two pilots to control them in order to save the world from the danger that is the alien invasion. The plot of Pacific Rim conforms perfectly, like most other films to Todorov's narrative theory, there is a disruption of the equilibrium and the character of the film have to try and restore it by defeating the giant aliens. The film is conforms to Propp's narrative theory, the characters controlling the jager's are the hero's, the aliens are the villains and the there are numerous helpers and dispatchers along the way. It is quite uncommon for this much of a story to be given away in the trailer for a film, but since the story is not the main feature of a film like this, i guess it doesn't really matter.

The setting of the film is based around cities that border the pacific ocean, such as Sydney, Australia and San Francisco, USA. The setting in the trailer hops around all different places making it hard for the audience to establish a specific setting for the film. Most of the trailer is set inside Jager workshops and in cities destroyed by the aliens. This change of settings thoughout the trailer helps to make the trailer engaging and also enables the studio to show off their amazing CGI work on the Jager's and the urban areas.

The Pacific Rim trailer features a heavy distorted soundtrack with what sound like a fog horn placed over the top of the music, especially in the beginning of the trailer, with a voice over from one of the character though out the film. The voice over provides a narrative to the audience explaining how and when the crisis started to unfold while the music help to give the trailer a sense of scale. The music also helps the audience engage with the trailer making them want to watch the trailer all the way though and hopefully, make them want to watch the entire film.

The costume design for the character in the film is semi-futuristic as the film is not set that far ahead in the future, by the costume do have a whiff of sci-fi about them. As you would expect, each characters costume is different depending on their role in the film.

The sheer amount of camera angle used in just the trailer of the film really give an impression that the director really wanted the audience to be able to feel the size of the aliens and the Jagers, there are so many different shot that really show just how big the aliens are, especially when they are up against a skyscraper in the city, you can really see that they are, literally, as big as buildings. As the film is something like 80% CGI, the director could really go all out on the camera angles as there were no physical limitations on what the camera angles could be.