Further Analysis of a trailer

Analysis of teaser trailer

Hangover trailer

Camera & Sound

The first camera shot we see is a mid shot of the character Phil talking towards the camera ( on the phone), with characters Stu, Alan and Black Doug in a focus pull behind him. The shot is a complete mess, straight away the first shot does not give any indication on whats going on or the basis of the film. Like an actual hangover you have limited memory or sometimes no memory of the night before when awoken. The first shot is trying to get the audience in that perspective, we see Phil in a complete state, tattered clothes and the others either lying on the floor also with dirty clothes or urinating in the background. This shot is trying to get the audience to think 'have we missed something?'. As if the audience has just forgotten what has just happened like an Hangover its self.
Then a medium of a women talking towards the camera (on the phone) and a quite opposite background and scene. The girl is nicely shown, clean, pretty and a nicely shown background. Flowers and a nicely lit background is a complete change to the shot of Phil a second ago. They have done this to show how far away them two are in society and public standing but only a phone call away, this tells us no matter have different the scenes may be they could be closer then the viewer perceives.

The next camera shot we see is a close up shot on Stu lying on the ground. Now the camera is positioned on the ground with him, perhaps trying to tell the viewer that we are positioned in the reality of the film, feeling what Stu is feeling. Now Stu is positioned to the left hand side of the shot and their is still half the frame to be used. This is used deliberately to tell the audience that whatever is covering the rest of the frame is a big indicator of what this films about. Now the frame consists of a lot of rubbish in the background, a chicken, empty cans and Stu's glasses. Now these are here to tell us about the film, the glasses are their i guess just because Stu dropped them. The Rubbish in the background can tell us of this film is essentially a messy film, loads of things coming at you at once, cans to indicate heavy drinking and i guess the chicken shown just to tell us how random this film is and the story line within it.  The next couple of shots are short cut shots of close ups of Alan and then to a tiger. Now these quick two shot are shown in that way to trick the audience into thinking this is normal. You associate two quick shots of close ups of two people talking an every day event where know one would take a second take on. Due to the fact its a tiger in the second shot, we look at  it first and then after a couple of seconds it hits us. This is here because its telling the audience this is normal in this film. Indicating a second take is needed i.e watching and going to see the film within the cinema.

This trailer hits the audience one shot after another, once with the chicken in the background, second with the tiger and then a close up shot of Stu loosing his tooth. To top things off there is a two shot of Stu and Phil talking and then a diegetic sound of a baby coming from within the hotel room. This two second shot brilliant in the facial reactions of Stu and Phil, and the state of the hotel that surrounds them. This trailer hits the audience one after another with K.O blows of randomness and pure hilarious consequences of there night out.