Super 8

At the beginning of the super 8 trailer Paramount pictures logo appears and then fades out. The sound of crickets is in the background of a shot of a dark countryside and a starry night sky. The shot cuts to an old train going very fast then the caption ‘In 1979, the us air force closed a section of area 51’ then it quickly cuts to a train crossing sign warning that the barriers are going down. In the distance a cars headlights come in to view and the screeching of tires can be heard implies theirs some kind of emergency. Caption ‘All materials were to be transported to a secure facility in Ohio’.  The truck whizzes towards the camera spins ands starts to drive along the train track to wards the oncoming train. Producer Steven Spielberg’s name appears onscreen while muffled radio voices are heard in the background. Then a loud sound most likely the voices on the radio gets very loud and the scene shows the truck driving headfirst into the fast train destroying the truck, there’s a big explosion and the shot cuts to short and quick brief seconds of the train derailing and exploding carriage by carriage. Director J.J. Abrams Name appears. Everything goes quiet as the train wreck has settled, the camera slowly moves towards the wreckage, noise can be heard, squeaking and something moving, one of the carriages is moving like something’s inside trying to get out. The caption ‘IT ARRIVES’ appears onscreen which implies something not human is coming. One of the carriages of the train has a big door on it with a big steering wheel sort of handle, the US Air force logo is printed on the door of the train letting the audience know that this ‘thing’ is most likely alien due to all the speculation around area 51. The handle on the door begins to turn form the inside and big dents quickly start appearing on the door also from the inside, then the door fly’s off. The camera lens from the Super 8 camera in now the focus point of the shot and you see the film spinning round then the movie name ‘SUPER 8” appears on screen.

Super 8 is an action sci-fi film, it’s a very wide target audience because it stars a group of kids all around age 13, but its still a big action alien film directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg so everyone knows it going to be great, so I think this would be a family film aimed at ages 12-35 but I think it would appeal to most people. Super 8’s unique selling point is that it’s a very mysterious film, the plot was kept a secret for a very long time which intrigued a lot of people including myself and because its focused around area 51 it immediately intrigues every conspiracy nut in the world, its also based in 1979 which is a year not used much. The pace of the trailer starts slow but then quickly picks up and quickly cuts from one angle to another and then goes back to the slow pace as the camera approaches the train carriage. Special effects in the trailer was pretty good, the train looked very realistic but I wouldn’t be surprised if J.J. Abrams just blew up a real train completely.