This GQ cover is awarding The Hangover cast title of "Funnymen of the Year". As it's an awards special, the actors are smartly dressed in tuxedos however there's still a throwback to the film with the pink underwear in Zach Galifianakis' mouth. It retains a comedy element with Ed Hemls' pose. The title has clearly been won thanks to he Hangover but the cover is very detached from the image of the film, this could be due to the type of magazine it is though as GQ is quite a respected, adult magazine.

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The Hangover Movie Trailer

Liar Liar TRAILER

Happy Gilmore Movie Trailer

Which of the trailers you have seen gives a strong indication of the narrative in the film?

What do they convey and what elements do they use to do this?

The Hangover had the most informative trailer regarding the plot and content of the film. We're introduced to the main characters and given a brief indication of the narrative - they've lost their friend Doug after his stag night and have to find him. We're then shown a series of scenes cut together showing the funniest parts and retracing all the crazy things they did the night before.

Liar Liar uses a voice-over and clips cut together to give an idea of what happens in the story. We know who the main character is, a big name star, Jim Carrey which will draw an audience alone. We're also introduced to his family and friends, as well as finding out that he's a lawyer which all gives a rounded view of who the character is. Clips include scenes of him lying, then missing his son's birthday where the wish is made that Jim Carrey's character won't be able to lie for an entire day, and then the aftermath of the day after. Like The Hangover, the trailer for Liar Liar shows the funniest scenes to attract it's audience.

Happy Gilmore has the least informative trailer of the three we've chosen. I found the trailer hard to understand but the main points I could pick out were that he has to play golf to earn money for his grandmother. There's a few different clips which show him getting aggressive and getting into fights but I'm not sure how it relates to the plot.

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What trailers do NOT give you a great deal of information about the narrative?

Out of the three trailers that I have w

atched (The Hangover, Liar Liar and Happy Gilmore) two of them provided good information about their films. The Hangover, provided humour and was entertaining in only a small amount of time which encourages people to want to watch it. However Happy Gilmore wasn’t so easy to understand. I think that it didn’t provide enough information about the film so is a film you would have to watch to find out what its really about. However the actors within the film (Adam Sadler), have good reputations in the comedy genre which also encourages the audience to want to watch it.

Overall I think the trailers were good so provided enough information to encourage people to watch their films.

Posted by Sam Leimanis and Sophie Rippin.

07/09/10

Today we made the final PopwerPoint presentation for our chosen film trailers. We will now be able to compare the ways in which they are constructed so we can make our own trailer as realistic and proffesional as possible.

We can now go on to analyse the posters for the three films which will help us when we come to make our own poster.

02/09/10

Today we made another PowerPoint presentation for the second film trailer we am going to analyse, 'Liar Liar'. We asked the same questions as we did for Happy Gilmore and so this will enable us to compare them and so will help us when we come to make our own trailer. Next time we work on the planning of my coursework, we will create a third PowerPoint presentation for The Hangover.

01/09/10

Today we chose 3 film trailers of the same genre as our chosen genre to analyse. We chose 'Happy Gilmore', 'Liar Liar' and 'The Hangover'. I then began to make a PowerPoint presentation on Happy Gilmore and analysed features such as the cast, the music and the events that happen in the trailer. Next time, I will continue to do this and also do the same for the other two trailers. This will help me to create my own trailer because I will be able to see the genre conventions for the trailers and how they are constructed into a certain style. I have also chosen two older films and one newer film to analyse the trailer of because it will help me to see how the style of comedies have changed.

The PowerPoint presentations I made for the film trailers of our choice can be seen here:

The hangover

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Liar liar

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Happy gilmore

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The trailers we chose to analyse can be seen in future posts.