Analysis of Trailer

The following essay will look to analyse the film trailer ‘City Of Men’ paying close attention to representation & audience. City of Men is a foreign film set in Brazil, specifically Rio de Janeiroe, and is directed by the award winning directors/producers that made City of God.
The trailer to City of Men shows quite a violent representation of the movie. For instance, in the trailer there are a number of scenes were guns are used such as the ending clip. From this I can gather that the age range that the film wants its audience to be is over 18 (or at least a young adult).
In the trailer the scenes are set in the slums and feature young black men. By using ABC1 Classification system i would guess that the audience they are targeting are around the C2/D1 classification i would say this because of the setting and the actors that they have chosen (young ethnic people) are appealing to this audience this is because it gives the C2/D1 classification a sense of Personal identity which is when the audience feel sympathetic towards a character or feel that the character represents a bit of themselves also it gives the audience a sense of escapism when watching the film.
Although the film is catered towards the C2/D2 classification I can infer from the trailer that it is more targeted towards males. I know this because of the way the trailer represents woman:
• As sexual objects to satisfy the leading men’s needs
• Scared, while the men are shown being brave when gunfire is heard, the woman cower huddled down with children.
Also the name of the film is a massive indication of who the film is catered to. The connotation’s of the films title ‘City of Men’ is of danger & masculinity a place where the traditional or stereotypical roles of woman as carers & mothers are seen as weak.
Another market in which the film might target is the more niche market of foreign film fans. This audience will be more likely to watch the film in the western world despite the fact that some of the audience will not fit into the classifications i have stated above.
The representation of the young men in the film is that they are naturally good but there personalities have become distorted because of the crime and poverty they live around. I came to this conclusion based on the fact that the start the trailer shows the lead males as friends on a beach but by the end a stand off was occurring between both of them as to suggest that there feeling of brotherly love has now changed.
Despite the fact that the representation of characters is important I find it more relevant to talk about the representation of the place in which they live in. As i have already said i believe that the film wants to show these characters as naturally good and that it is the place in which they live in that is the real antagonist. By showing at the start a Bird view angle of the city it emphasises how poor & desolate the whole city is rather than just showing the poverty of specific characters. This is important because it gives us a more authentic image of how society/people work in the city as the connotation of poverty is a lack of education, Ghetto’s etc.
In Conclusion, I believe that this film trailer is targeted towards young males of the C2/D1 classification. I also have stated that the film may find popularity in foreign film lovers.