The 5 Year Engagement Trailer Analysis

Credits/ intertitles

At the beginning the intertitle, ‘The engagement’ is on a black background in curly white writing. This suggests a romantic, relaxed engagement leading up to a wedding. Although later on in the trailer it is shown again with big bold pink writing which reads ‘The two year engagement’ indicating that their engagement is a lot longer than they expected. It could suggest to the audience that the bold pink writing is incontrollable but overpowering. This writing is shown again later in the trailer although this time saying ‘The four year engagement’ in big yellow writing demonstrating that their engagement is a lot longer than expected but again uncontrollable.   

Dialogue

The trailer of this film includes comical lines such as 'I got a job for two year' 'Two years is nothing'. This is ironic as the audience know that their relationship is going to be a '5 year engement'.
The trailer also includes serious lines from the film such as Tom says 'You told em it was only going to be two year'. This shows that this film has an emtional side and it not all comical. 

Genre

The genre of this film in romantic comedy, as it shows the stress of a serious relationship. The story line is about Tom and Violet, a young couple, who decided to get enegaed after dating for a year. They end up being engaged for five years, the film shows the couple as they struggle with their juggling their lives with the organisation of their wedding. The trailer also includes a few funny scenes to keep the audience amused and interested.

Narrative

This film is about a relationship which becomes complicated as an engagement gets longer and longer as the couple discover they need to postpone it for various reasons, for example Tom and Violets wedding gets further delayed as violet is offered a place at the University of Michigan which lasts two years.

Music

The film starts with recent music about a relationship and is up beat and happy which refelct the charcters mood. The music then become quiter and changes to a more dramtic and fast paced music as it shows their stress and problems in the relationship.

Pace

This trailer is quite slow moving and doesn’t have a very fast pace. This may be because they wanted to introduce the two main characters in depth and show the story develop throughout the trailer. It also may be slow paced to symbolise the slow moving lives they have as their marriage seems to be getting further away.

Shot types/ camera angles

One of the first shots shown is an over the shoulder shot behind each of the main characters as he proses to her. This means that the audience can see the characters facial expressions clear and are able to relate to the main characters as they feel they have been put in their position.

A mid shot is used to show both the characters on the screen having fun and laughing. This suggests to the audience that this is a fun film which is comical and entertaining.

Target audience

The main target audience for this film was young adults in their mid 20’s - mid 30’s. The film was about a couple of the same age who had just come out of college. Lots of people can relate to this and understand what they are going through as they have been going through the same thing. The film shows an important message about relationships demonstrating that people need to make a balance between their relationships and careers.

Unique selling point

The unique selling point of this film is that the couple are happily together at the beginning of the film but their relationship slowly deteriorates as the story progresses. This is unusual to the normal Romantic comedy as the relationship usually develops throughout the film. This means that this film is showing a relationship from a different point of view and it is subverting to the conventions of a Ron-Com.