Research/ Legend Teaser Trailer and Official Trailer Analysis

The teaser trailer is more of a montage of the film, silent scenes are played whilst there is music, fitting to the era, being played over it. Roughly half way through we have little dialogue from the film as a voice over as dramatic effect. There are titles used through out giving us information to engage with about the film, such as the plot, the back story, the director Brian Helgeland and the leading actor Tom Hardy. This establishes the most basic elements to the film by giving us clues for example the genre and the style of acting, we know this will be a crime/thriller genre by Tom Hardy being associated with similar roles.

Before the official trailer starts we're shown this image which we are familiar with before we watch trailers, this informs us of the age of the appropriate audiences in the box which says 'Restricted' we're shown the age limit and what the further scenes consist of. We're shown the main institution which invested into the film, Universal, whereas the teaser trailer just showed the logo of the distribution and production company. We begin with a voice over and background music to dramatise the trailer as well as it being a clear introduction. We're also shown clips of scenes throughout with dialogue building a more detailed story and parallel story lines. Although there are titles like the teaser trailer we're relying on the action to give us depth to the characters and story. Certain parts are emphasised such as Ronnie talking about his sexual orientation, Reggie's relationship, and the turning point of the brothers relationship, this is done by the pace of these clips being slower then others. The official trailer is more theatrical and creates more excitement about the film.