Trailer Deconstruction - alice and wonderland

Research on the trailer Alice and Wonder Land deconstruction

Tim Burton’s new up coming film Alice and Wonder Land Starring Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska comes out in early 2010. This teaser trailer was released on the 23rd of July 2009 so the trailer is giving us a good year to think about this film before it has its final release. Tim Burton is a well known American Film Director, producer and writer. His leap into fame is mostly due to is gift in making dark and unusual films.

Now in his new Trailer Alice and Wonder Land the camera starts off fixed on the actress Mia Wasikowska feet running in a slow motion close up, the lighting and sound are very hazy and suggest that she is in a daydream. This cuts to a mid shot of Mia Wasikowska still running in a baby blue dress only to suggest that she is Alice still the lighting and sound have not changed and still show that she is in a day dream.
Now we see Alice approach a dirt hole as the camera is placed so that we are looking up at Alice from the hole this may suggest that at this moment in time she is more dement in the situation, now this cuts to a long shot of her back as she is peering down this hole the digetic sound still remains the same as does the lighting. Now this quickly cuts back to the previous shot as we see Alias’s hand slip, this then quickly cuts to a medium close up of her falling down the hole, as this act happens we hear a quick change in the digetic music this then cuts to a black screen with Tim Burton’s name in gold calligraphy. This then Cuts into the name of the Film Alice and wonderland.

Looking at these trailers two and deconstructing the third Alice and wonderland I have a good idea on how the setup of a teaser trailer and I have some inspiration for my own.

Below is a link to the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeWsZ2b_pK4

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