Deconstruction of Shutter Island Trailer vs Opening.

I looked at how different a trailer to a film and its opening are very different from each other and how they distinguish to the audience which is the trailer and which is the film's opening. To do this I looked a psychological horror film of Shutter Island to give me some ideas to how our group could make our film opening more obviously a film opening and not getting it mistaken for a film trailer instead.

Trailer.

The trailer of Shutter Island started off with the logo of the production company who backed the film which were Paramount and A Martin Scorsese Picture. It also includes at the end some names and other production companies to give the audience a sense of who made the film and there is also a scene where the leading actor's name appeared to give the trailer and film a name that the audience would know already.

The majority of the shots shown in the film trailer were mainly mid shots, one shots or establishing shots. This shows the audience the characters that would be involved throughout the film and also the location of the film and when it is set without giving much away to the audience about the rest of the film.

Opening.
The opening two minutes of the film Shutter Island consists of the two main characters travelling to somewhere which remains unknown to the audience on a boat. It is very different from the trailer as it is one long sequence of different shots, which also consists of mid shots and close up shots and a few establishing shots to she the audience who is in the film and where they may be without giving them too much information away. When the two characters talk to each other they also do not say much which is about to happen instead they talk about themselves as they are new to each other.

• Trailers tend to have short and fast transitions between different shots and frames.
• Whereas openings tend to be a longer shot and not as many frames, more of a story line.
• More characters are shown in the film trailer compared to the film opening.
• Most shots used in trailers are long, establishing, mid, two or one shots.