At the begining of the trailer there is no music or dialogue, the trailer relies on sound effects alone to start creating suspense. As the trailer goes on it begins to play music. The music used creates a strange/unknown atmosphere. The music builds up through the rest of the trailer to relate to the action/war scenes and then suddenly stops at the last scene as the last scene is a complete contrast to the action shots that make up most of the trailer, it is a calm scene between two of the main characters.
There is barely any dialogue in the trailer as it mainly relies on sound effects and music to build tension. I think music is defiantly more effective in creating suspense within a film than dialogue as music can create the scene and bring it to life whilst playing with the viewers minds.
Throughout the trailer 'fade outs' are used to switch to a new scene. There is only one point in the trailer where on scene belnds into the next, but I feel that the reason for this is to show the viewer what the main character is looking at as he is viewing a new world for the first time and this is what comes across. The viewer is being put into the characters position.
There are a couple of scenes that are drawn out, because they have been slowed down it gives the viewer the chance to really take in what is going on. One particular drawn out scene is when the main character is looking at his avatar which is lying in a tank. It is a dark scene with the only light coming from the tank. This imediately draws the viewer to the tank, questioning 'what is this creature?' Also because of this lighting the avatar's blue skin is emphasised drawing even more attention. I find this scene very effective. The drawn out scenes build a lot of suspense within this trailer.
Avatar is full of bright colours and to show this off there is a lot of light in most scenes especially during the fight scenes. With this lighting set up you can clearly see the difference between the Na'vi and the humans. If there wasn't much light used then you wouldn't really be able to see the just how colourful the world is where the Na'vi live.
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