CONSTRUCTION: SCRIPT YOUR INTERTITLES

I went over the the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) website, and visited their subsection where I can view Trailers from recent and old movies. Here is where I am using this collection of trailers to analyse their use of Intertitles.

Lord of the Rings

The Trailer for The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies uses intertitles to grab the audience's attention by breaking down a sentence with little snippets that each have its own intertitle: 'This Year, from the Director of 'The Lord of the Rings trilogy'/ prepare for the defining moment of the Middle-Earth Legend'. 

However, this is broken up into 5 different parts which are spread throughout the trailer. This means that as the person is viewing the trailer they want to carry on the sentence, and to do so they need to go through the whole trailer. It functions almost like a voice over that is guiding us through. This constant need to know what is being said in the intertitles also means that the viewer watches the whole trailer. 

The imperative 'Prepare for' is quite a bold and demanding statement telling all people viewing the trailer to be ready. Epithets like defining and legend suggest the prestige of the project, all of which is enhanced by the glowing gold lettering.

Delivery Man

In this movie trailer the start is where all of the intertitles are seen. They are presented in an almost slide show format with lots of images of people surrounding the intertitles. It is also presented with a voice over that reads sentences with that say very similar things that are seen on screen. 

This voice over and style we are presented with at the start of the trailer gives context to the unknown for the scenes of the movie that we see after this intertitles section. After we know that these pictures of people have something in common, we see the next part of trailer which shows what they do have in common. Intertitles here are used give context for the movie and the voice over also guides us through this part. 

These intertitles also intrigue the audience because the words unique and common are complete opposite words. This enigma leads to the viewer being tantalised by the hunger of curiosity which leads them to find out what lies behind this enigma. Here the intertitles use of apparently contradictory words unique and common features as a bait that whets our curiosity.