Like the flawless trailer this trailer begins with a rating by the MPAA. This is then followed by the Warner brother’s company brand. The first shot is again an establishing shot of a courtroom. This is generally the case in most film trailers as establishing shots are used as locations change so the audience can follow the trailer easily. The cuts between the scenes in the courtroom are not very quick at all. The music follows this as the music is slow and has a low bass line. This low bass line creates suspense. As the shots change a loud bas not is heard again creating suspense. The inclusion of the gun in many of the opening scene shows its importance to the opening sequence of shots. As the judge reads out the sentence the camera tracks towards the actor who looks directly at it. The music in the background sounds like a countdown which tells the audience that the scene is about to end as the music increases in drama. The opening dialogue is important to the overall scene as it gives the audience background information about why the man has ended up in prison which is where the majority of the scene will be.
After the court scene there is another establishing shot of a prison. This shows the audience that the man in the first scene has been convicted and is now at the prison. This shot slowly fades in and the music changes but remains slow paced. As the pan reaches its end a voice over can be heard. This is the same as in the Flawless trailer. The shots quicken at this point as the audience gets an impression of the prison and what it’s like. The main characters are revealed as Morgan Freeman and the prison governor have speaking parts in the trailer. The mise-en-scene of the trailer shows that again it is a crime drama not set in the 21st century. A low-angle shot at 1 minute 13 is used to show the vastness of the prison. The music in the opening prison scenes is upbeat and does not create suspense. However some scenes are designed to be intimidating such as the prison guard scene in which guards lock up the prisoners at 1 minute 17.
At 1 minute 23 seconds the music builds up as a pan across the ocean begins. This brings excitement as it is a completely different world than a prison. The lighting in the prison shots are light and do not create suspense. However some scene s like the escape scene are very dramatic in there lighting. The close up on the rock that the actor is holding shows its importance. The trailer then cuts back to the ending of a previous scene as the dialect acts as a voice over for different scenes as the guard checks why the main character is not in his cell the camera tracks backwards. It cuts back to allow the audience to view the people that are speaking over different scenes this increases the speed of the trailer.
As the trailer comes to its close the music begins to build and the titles begin to come up on screen. The names of the main actors come up on screen at the end of the trailer which is the same as the flawless trailer. The last scene of the trailer is extremely dramatic as the camera flies up away from the actor as the mise-en-scene shows that it is dramatic as the actor is standing in a dramatic pose the rain is falling hard and the background noise is that of lightning which adds to the drama of the scene. As the scene ends the music drops for the final title which fades into a billing block.
The music in this trailer does not build up until the last 30 seconds of the trailer but does change dramatically from the courtroom scene to the prison scenes.
The pace of the trailer is slow throughout. There is no one point that is much faster than another.
The titles appear at the end at the end of the trailer unlike the flawless trailer in which the titles are throughout the trailer.
The lighting of the trailer does not change up until the scenes in which the main character escapes the prison in darkness.
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