Skyfall trailer analysis

The trailer for the new James Bond film, Skyfall, shows many conventions of the action film genre, such as an excessive amount of guns and gunfire. There are multiple shots of the titular character being harmed, and is seen worse for wear, and is however managing to survive an extraordinary amount of wounds without being in serious danger.
The main villain is only seen at a glance, for example in shadows or through a glared window. This adds to the suspense as to whether this villain is one seen in other Bond films, or whether he is just a new character here to cripple Bond before he decides to take the fight back to him.
Multiple shots of women talking to him are seen several times, keeping with the almost self contained conventions of the genre of the franchise. This shows that the primary hero is considred a ladies man, and yet people still feel as if he one to be protected at all costs, even if it harms those that they love or themselves.

Age Ratings for Films

Age ratings can be an important implication as to whether a film is suitable for any audience.
This means that the film is suitable for all ages. This is usually used for children's films, or some less crude family comedies. Examples of films with U ratings include many Disney films such as The Jungle Book and The Lady and the Tramp.

A PG rating usually refers to a film that is not suitable for the ages below 7. This may be due to some mild violence or very mild swearing. Films which have this rating include Star Wars Episode 2: The Attack of the Clones.


A twelve rating is given to films that include some action scenes involving blood, or some swearing, occasionally dropping the F bomb in a few films. Other reasons for this rating also include minor sexual innuendo.


15 rated film certificates are given out to a wide variety of films, for many reasons such as some horrors, action and comedies. These may contain gore, a lot of swearing or minor sexual encounters- e.g. partial nudity. Films with these rating include- Role models, or any number of horror movies. This is also the intended rating for our own project.

Location Ideas

Considering that most of the film locales are inside buildings as opposed to outside, there are not that many shots of areas I can show  at this moment in time. However there are several locations from films that I would like to base our ideas from.

Watchmen Trailer

This trailer shows that super heroes have a darker side to them, as shown by how violent and the trailer actually is. This is an aspect that we would like to transfer to our movie, as it will contain copious amounts of violence, but not as much blood, as to fit into the psychological aspect of our movie. Although this may change in time we will chose to keep the film fairly low key, due to the lack of fantastic set pieces seen here. Another obvious addition that we will chose not to integrate with our trailer is the fantastical costumes that all of these superheroes are wearing. Much like in the rebooted Batman series, we want the trailer to be grounded in reality more than most other superhero based films

Law abiding Citizen Trailer analysis.

The law abiding citizen trailer contains many cliches of its genre, including a copius amount of explosions, however, it is later shown that the titular character is not actually the protagonist the majority of the film, but the antagonist of it. There are many shot of him, mainly close ups, that show an almost sadistic joy at getting his revenge in such a way, all because of what the police had done, or rather, had failed to do.

Film Summary

Audience Profiling

This is the audince profile for Watchmen. AB is Upper class, C1 is middle to upper,C2 is lower to middle and DE is Lower/ working class.