Source Code

Source Code (2011) is an action thriller based on a soilder who wakes up  in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Directed by Duncan Jones

Writen by Ben Ripley

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga

Trailer

The Source Code trailer is effective in many ways. the use of fast pace editing and cutting makes the trailer feel exciting and it grabs the audiences eye, making them inpatient to wait for the film to come out; grabbing the audience by their seats. The numerous rapid shots don't assemble like a puzzle piece making no sense, but it creates a vibe to the audience making them anxious to watch the film.

The shots chosen in the trailer are very unusual. We see shots of eyes, random civilians, trains... the trailer is sought of all over the place, it's like as if, you have to watch the film to put the puzzle together to understand the movie. all of these random images, make no sense at all, but it's clear that it somehow catches the audiences eyes, the speed of the images sought of makes the audiences disorientated because of the speedy editing. From this mind blowing trailer, we can see the target audience would be people who like conspiracy films, action thriller films particularly older teens to young adults. This film will be enjoyable by both gender, because of it's brilliant yet weird storyline. The trailer I think has been edited for the target audience, so they find it appealing. The use of fast pace editing is used to show the action. There is use of shots where particular aspects are highlighted. For example when the drink is spilt in the trailer, the sound and motion is highlighted greatly. This is done to show their importance. In the trailer there are various thrilling scenes which are edited fast paced. 

Phonecall Scene

In the trailer they show some emotional scenes to convey the thriller film. In the emotional phone call scene we experience the main character witness the train scene whilst wired up to the  machine. We see him on the phone to someone important to him whilst he is actually going back in time to witness peoples death. This scene has an eerie chill, also in my view a emotional ending. We realise how hard this situation is and the pain and strugle he'd been through whether his a soldier and the emotion, because solider are trained to deal with their emotion. When the women opens the machine, then we get a shot of his actual body creates a freaky and sad feeling to the scene.