The Martian

The establishing shot at the start of the trailer

allows the audience to sense the direction of
the film and its setting hinting at the genre. The
closing in on the sun fading away over the
planet enables the audience to see the size
and scale of the film and how high quality the
production is demonstrating the use of CGI
and production. The mise on scene in the shot
shows the audience the type of environment
the film will be situated in allowing them to
already make assumptions of the
disequilibrium of the film and the choice of
characters that will feature. The editing
techniques of the planet panning around
showing off the setting allows the audience to
see the tough terrain and landscape
contrasting to the world they already
know(earth) showing it wont be like other
disaster films that are trapped to one specific
planet.
This close up of the protgonist Mark
Watney allows the start of the films
narrative to begin as this type of shot
focuses on the expressions and feeling of
the character as it demostates the
character is in pain coming to terms with
his surrondings. This open up the
narrative as the audience learn with the
charcter about his dilema.

This shot reinforces the developing problem within the

film trialer revealing more of the narrative drawing in the
audience to be engaged and intrigue to how the
character overcomes the sitation as the audience follow
the storyline as it progresses and it is resolved. The
phycological stuggle is also followed by the audince as
they see the effect of the dilema on the character.

The mise en scene in the shot conforms to

the conventions of a disaster base film as
the science and technology is discovered
and used by the charater to overcome the
situation. This enables the audience to
become more enagaged with the narrative
as the following the resolving with the
character creating a emtional attachemnt to
the protagonist.
 The long shot used in this scene also provides the
audience with knowlege of the development of the
film and it shows the begin of the resolvemnt of the
dilema and how the character deals with life on the
planet. However it stills intruigues the audience as
it is it doesnt reveal wether he survives or leaves
the planet. The editing in this sequence also
speeds up as the movie narrative progresses to
show the movement of time.

This second close up of the protgonist enables

the audience to follow the joruney with the
character as he tackles differnet situations and
overcomes them on a menatl level learning how
to be alone. This focus on his facial expression
allows the audience to create a mental timeline
of the emotions he goes through as he
becomes more confident in his ablility to find a
way out.

This third extreme long shot reinforces the

theme and feel of the trialer as it demonstrates
the size comparison between the character and
the planet portraying him as vulnerable. This
makes the audience feel he is at a
disadvantage to the dilemma and fighting an
uphill battle making the film more intriguing to
watch as it is instantly an underdog film.

This long shot of the space ship flying towards

the audience creates a feeling of engagement
and action. This duie to the fact that the rocket
is moving towards the audience highlighting
that the action will come towards them. This
also shows the narrtive progressing as the
rocket is taking off.

This next sceen is in the middel of the acrtioon

as the panning shot is cut between the diaster
of the film shwoing the audicne what is at stake
as the mise en scen of thew shot is a grave
yard allowing the audience to realise what could
happen as well as the realtiy of life and death.
 This extreme longshot realiterates the genre
and type of the film showing that it is
represented as a national diaster and the
whole world is captivated by the story like the
audience making them feel more involved and
part of the narrative. The mass showinhg of
the people looking up at the billboard of the
protgonist making him seem powerful and
heroric.

Thought the film trailer the edting cuts from long

shots to close ups revealing the reaction and
emotions of the characters to the certain situations
making the audience more sympathetic and
attached to the character and storyline. The non
diegetic sound in the scene ties well with the
edtiting of the flashes of the lights as the sound of
bangs and expolsions indicating the feel of a
diaster movie and something going wrong.

The last shot of the ending quote

supports the common theme of the
trailer as a disaster film. The quote
emphasises the issues of the film as the
character is all alone and has to survive
by himself emphasising the struggle.