Jumper Movie Trailer Analysis

Jumper Movie Trailer Analysis

Jumper makes good use of their own tagline ‘Anywhere is possible’ as they transfer it onto a simplistic poster as well and everyone will know the tagline ‘anywhere is possible’ from the movie ‘jumper’

The teaser trailer uses a voice over at the beginning of the trailer, which is what I was planning to do in my trailer but use a voice over more to the end of the trailer so it gives more of a set up to the storyline.

When the movie is playing without sound from things such as editing, camera angles/shots and mis-en-scene we know this movie is going to be fast paced but has a hint of soft, key parts in the trailer which are sort of romantic and quite. We know this movie is mainly action packed because of the mis-en-scene and editing, editing is fast paced, and quick, there are a lot of quick cuts, the more serious parts of the trailer have long cuts.

There are lots of closes ups in the film on parts which are of some significance. There is one part of the teaser trailer which really caught my eye and it’s a part when there is a close up on the main character, it then zooms out to an establishing shot, this shows his ability to ‘jump’ and goes with the tagline of the movie ‘anywhere is possible’

There seems to be a variety of locations and this again has reference to ‘anywhere is possible’ also there is a close up on an object of significance and it’s a world map with a lot of pins on it which shows a lot of different locations have been travelled to.

We know that a main character in the film wants to ‘kill’ the ‘jumpers’ as he believed only god should poses the power to teleport, this line is in the trailer used my Samuel Jackson and it gives a crucial part of the film away and helps us with the narrative and tells us what the film is partly about we also know that this line is true in the movie from close ups of props, such at the lightening spike used to stop jumpers from jumping.

When the main character ‘jumps’ you get a blurred effect which is left behind for a few milliseconds after he has jumped,

I’m going to have to pay close attention to editing like this as in my trailer I plan to have a jump effect like this movie does, only difference is I will be involving a mobile phone. In order to signify this object and try and make this film more modern instead of this blurred effect you get when jumping I may include a flash, when my main character teleports. a flash would be a lot easier to carry out on the editing software as you can make the surface area of the flash quite big so you don’t actually see as much of the actual teleporting, it’ll be like a shot of the main character answering phone, then a flash, then a shot of the room empty so it appears he has teleported, this will be worst case scenario if I cant find another away to ‘teleport’ my character because it may get too complicated when it doesn’t actually have to be and I can make the final outcome of the teleport quite effective with just a flash.

At the end of the trailer it shows the word ‘jumpr’ – jumper abbreviated and then it does the ‘jump’ effect I was just talking about and it turns into ‘jumper’ which is quite a nice effect and goes with the rest of the film and the editors of the film have tried to portray this edit through the whole film and it can be used as a sort of trademark

As usual, such as in other trailers, institutional information is shown in-between clips of the film towards the end of the movie, the editors have tried to catch your eye with the film at the beginning of the trailer and then it’s as if they’re saying ‘right now you’re interested, here’s some information in who made the movie and when it’s out’ so they put clips in-between the information to keep you ‘hooked’ to the television and not miss any crucial points in the trailer.

Another point on editing , when the main star ‘jumps’ somewhere else he fades very quickly then reappears very quickly, not really a flash, just a very quick fade in and out, this shows the ‘sci-fi’ aspect of the film as you wouldn’t see it in real life, you see sort of a bubbly effect on the outline of the characters when they jump, but the ‘bubbles’ are only visible for a few milliseconds.