In todays media lesson we talked about 'cinema and the power of myth.' We discussed what a myth was and its ideologys. We then looked at teaser trailers that included a myth using:
www.traileraddict.comThis site was really informative and had the latest news and reviews about the lastest movies. It inlcuded the most popular films of the week and listed movies that are 'coming soon.'
The site wasn't specifically for British films and the a lot of the charts were dominated by American films. This site provided a search bar if you wanted to focus just on British films.
Conclusion on 'myths':
-story
-not neccessarily true
-believable plot
-moralistic
Teaser trailers with a myth:
www.traileraddict.com/trailer/new-moon/trailerThis is a teaser trailer of the film 'New moon' which is the second sequal to 'Twilight.' This is a very good trailer as it doesn't give any of the story away and leaves us with a big cliffhanger. I think a trailer can do that when the film already has a lot of hype around it. As 'Twilight' was so popular the trailer didn't need to include hardly any of the films scenes in it to draw people in. It was very effective by only showing 2 or 3 key scenes.
I think the film has a myth feel about it as it includes mythical creatures (vampires and werewolfs) but is also a believable plot because of the ordinary people, schools and scenary involved.
