Trailer.
This is a full theatrical trailer for the film 'the Debt'. this film is a thriller and is released in england on the 30th of september 2011. Originally this film was meant to be released in 2010, but due to difficulties promoting and advertising it, it was then left for a year in order to get more people interested in the film. It is certified as a 15. There are two production company's involved with this film, and they are MIRAMAX, and Focus features (MIRAMAX - www.miramax.com Focus Features - http://focusfeatures.com/). Typically you would find this film in a multiplex cinema such as Odeon and Cineworld, this is due to the Large audience it has (http://www.cineworld.co.uk , http://www.odeon.co.uk/ )
This film was directed by John Madden, edited by alexander berner and the music was originally by Thomas Newman. In this film there are three main stars these are, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, and Helen Mirren.
At the very start of the trailer, there is palm trees with the suset behind it, this gives us an idea a the very start as to where the film is set, at this part there is tense music playing, made from a piano, and then a voice over comes in to introduce the people on the screen and to explain who they are and what there mission is.
From the way that they are on an army plane you can tell right from the start that there is some sort of mission that they are on, this gives the audience of the film a clearer view of what's going to happen in this film. The people walking off the plane are portrayed as a silhouette this is to fit them into the enigma, it also relates to the type of film it is, this is due to the way that they are seen as dark people and it makes the audience more interested in who they are. this has a sedued colour palette. From the sound that is over the footage you can tell by the way it is speaking that it is on about the people in the frame(bridge).
Further on in the trailer there are a variety of books which reinforces who the people in the film are. the pictures in this book have a graphological field of war, you can see this by the wooden watch tower in the back on the picture, the barbed wire, and the nazi sign, all of this symbolises the concentration camps which were set up by hitler.
After this there is footage of the three people when they were young, and then followed by them as old people, this is clearly indicated which ones are which by the way it is set up (one after another). Each of these shots are separated by a wet flash to show the different times.
From the special lexis used in the film you can see that this film is for the older generation, this is due to people that are quite young wont understand half of the stuff within the film. Specialist names are used throughout the trailer, for example, 'Mossad'. if you said this to a younger audience they wouldn't understand what it means where as if you said it to an older audience they would have some understanding to it being the national intelligent industry of israel. As well as all of this there is use of jargon, such as 'in the field' which everyone understands to be linked to agents being on a mission.
The action though out the trailer is portrayed by the fast edits and sound effects. the music throughout the fast edited visuals speeds up, this is to make it more jumpy. the different shots used in this part of the trailer makes it look as if she is really attacking someone but really she isn't this is because she is a stunt women. to appeal to more people they have made it so that it is a women doing the fighting in the trailer to make the film target females as well as males.
the romantic interests between the characters you can see will cause tension due to the way that the people in the film are acting with each other in the trailer.
Within the scene where the female character (helen miller) is in the surgery, there is a variety amount of lighting used to make it look like a very bright room, which a hospital is generally seen as. As well as this the guy that is trying to hurt her you can see that he is a bad guy by the look on his face etc. after each shot of this part of the trailer there is a black flash which breaks up the scene to make it feel more like action.
Within this trailer there is a clear view that the ordering of what happens in this film isnt the same as the trailer. the trailer is in inconsecutive order to make the audience unaware of the true story line so that there is that element of suprise within the film when they see it in cinema.
Posters.
One of the main differences is the colour palettes, the american audience have a brighter colour palette, where as the english poster has a duller colour palette.
