LO1: Task 2 analysis of audio visual promos: Taken

                         
Genre: The Genre of the film Taken is clearly an action film with the amount of fighting involved. Although the film is action packed it is also a thriller, it is the sort of film that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. When the title comes up saying 20th century Fox the screen flashes and you here a dramatic change of sound, this connotes that it is a climatic film. Films so melodramatic are usually thrillers or horrors.

Purpose: The trailer is to advertise the film, it shows the plot and story line but doesn't tell you what happens or how it ends.

Content: The story line shown is basically about a former spy who gets his daughter taken from him when she goes on holiday with her friend to Paris. The start shows the father and daughter being happy and then it flickers to a different change of emotion in his daughter. The trailer then goes into an effective split scene so you can see exactly what each character is doing. Then an important part of the film is shown, it shows his daughter being Taken which is the the main punch line of the story. Towards the end of the trailer you hear Liam Neeson saying his famous line of the film, and as he is saying it you see flickers of different scenes of the film showing some of the most action packed parts on the journey to track down the ruthless gang that abducted his daughter in order to rescue her.


Form: The trailer doesn't show many different camera angles but it shows a couple of establishing shots showing the location of Paris where his daughter got abducted and the plane setting off from America to England. The costumes worn are very simple, Liam Neeson is a former spy so his costume is mainly all black. The gang that abducted her also wear black and cover their faces so their identity isn't shown. The female roles for example the two girls and the mum have their makeup and clothes very simple and not too eye catching.


Meaning: This trailer is to intrigue people who are into action movies to watch this movie. The story of the film is also sort of a lesson, it shows young people not to be as gullible and naive because there are bad people in the world.

Audience: The target audience of this film would stereotypically be males, mainly because action movies are a manly thing, and thats why they hardly have a strong female role.