Call of Duty Black Ops trailer
Site: Production
Technology: The medium used to create this trailer was 3d rendering software. This kind of medium allows for almost anything to be recreated as displayed by the multiple elements in the trailer.
Compositionality: The genre of the trailer would obviously be a game trailer and specifically a first person shooter game trailer.
Social: To have created such a video would require a multitude of people as it would have been almost impossible for a single person to have created it by themselves. It shows that people from different areas of expertise had to work together and get along to create a single trailer.
Site: Image
Technology: The medium of the trailer itself is video and is meant to promote a video game that they creators intend to sell.
Compostionality: Since this is a video, there are many compositional elements. It is shown from a first person perspective with moments of flashback sequences. It is quite flashy and draws attention from itself because of this.
Social: The video is meant to promote a video game to the public in the hopes that they will buy it through viewing the trailer.
Site: Audiences
Compositionality: The first person perspective of the trailer draws the viewer into the trailer as if they were the one in the video having the flashbacks. This allows them to feel as if they are already part of the story and that it is familiar.
Technology: Video game trailers can be quite different than other mediums. First of all, most people view them on the internet usually in the forms of advertisements where they can be shown to a specialized market.
Social: The use of video helps to show the viewer multiple images that tell a story. It would have been impossible for the viewer to have had the same experience watching the trailer if it had been simple photograph.
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