The source code

The Source Code

Year: 2011

Director: Duncan Jones

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga 

Narrative:

An action thriller centred on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Trailer:

The Source Code trailer is effective in many ways. The use of fast pace cutting at the beginning instantly catches the audiences attention. The numerous shots do not make much sense put next to eachother therefore creating an enigma code for the audience. Also the shots chosen to be shown

 are very strange. We see shots of a train, a wierd distorted image of people walking, wary eyes, someone watching the time, someone injured on a very strange background. All of these images strung together are very confusing. The speed at which they are shown also disorientate the audience. These excerpts have been included to do exactly this. We can see from this trailer that the target audience is people who are intrigued by conspiracy, particularly older teens to young adults. I feel this film can be enjoyed by either gender as there are scenes of emotion as well as action. Therefore appealing to both genders if I am to be stereotypical. The whole trailer has been edited in a way that appeals to its target audience. There is use of fast pace editing to convey action. There is use of shots where particular aspects are highlighted. For example when the drink is spilt in the trailer, the sound and motion is highlighted greatly. This is done to show their importance. Within the actual movie there are multiple thrilling scenes wihch are edited in a fast pace manner. There are also scenes of emotion which too help to convey the thriller film in a strange way. In the phone call scene we witness the main character rexperiencing the train scene whilst being wired up to the machine still. He is on the phone to someone important to him whilst he is actually going back in time to witness peoples death. This scene has a very eerie chill to it. We realise here just how hard this type of situation would be and how it has effected him emmotionally regradless as to whether he is a soldier or not (soldiers are taught to deal with their emotion). The shot of the women opening the machine where his real physical body lies adds a very surreal touch to the scene.