R&P This Is The End trailer analysis

The film is directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and features actors such as James Franco Seth Rogan and cameos from Emma Watson, Channing Tatum and Rihanna. This helps to attract an audience from fans of those actors and the directors, as well as people that like comedy films.

The plot is based around the end of the world events and the main characters have to barricade themselves inside of a house to survive, with only a few bottles of water, lots of beer and a few food items. This is a typical setting for a horror/action/syfi/comedy film. The breaking of the equilbrium is the end of the world event, and even though the trailer does not explicity sayit, but one would assume that the main characters have to save the world. The narative theroy that the film confoms closest to is Todorov's theory. The start shows a stalbe state of equlibrium and then the equlibrium is disrupted and the characters have to survive, as well as restore the equlibrium. The film does not conform to propps theroy as it has no defined hero, villan or any of the roles, its almost like all of the main characters play the heros and a few of the other character types come and go briefly.

The rest of the setting starts of with a house party setting, with all of the character enjoying themselves, then the setting sudendly changes to a fire ridden apocylisps setting. The contrast between the two settings amplifies the main setting which is the apocalyptic setting. This makes the audience see that the events happening are, well, "serious".

The sound that is in the trailer has a background rap track the plays almost thoughout the entirety of the trailer. The track at the beggining helps to make the begginging of the film seem very light hearted and easy going, but the track continues over to the second setting of the trailer, which helps to keep the audience in the mid set of that this film is a comedy and not as serious action film. The dialouge in the film is small snippets of the film, which help to give the audience a small outlibne opf the plot of the film, buit not give it away completely.

The costumes which the characters are wearing in the film are very typical of average american people, as the film is based around the actors playing themselves. The setting is typical is said before and every thing else is very typical of a modern American film.

The camera angles that are used in the trailer are fairly simple as well. As there is not really any complicated fight or chase scenes, the camera angles can be kept simple and the match on action is limited to talking scenes. A more wide vairity of camera angles woulf have made the film more technically impressive, but the whole poimnt of a comedy is to entertain, and making it more technically impressive would not have added entertainment value, therfore making it pointless.