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Slaughterhouse Rulz How does the trailer construct meaning for the audience and to what extent does it provide an accurate representation of the movie?  In this analysis I am going to be talking about how the Slaughterhouse Rulz trailer trailer how it constructs meaning for the audience and what the scenes show and some of the techniques used when making the trailer. At the start of the trailer it stats with a slapstick image of a camera zooming into Simon Pegg eating a chocolate and this foreshadows a scene that will come later in the film and the type of dramatic and silly humour that is going to take place within the film and Simon Pegg is well known for his dramatic and silly humour in films such as Hot Fuzz. The scene suddenly changes from him eating a chocolate to some people (most likely kids) reloading a gun and holding weapons and aiming them up, looking ready for a fight. In a scene later on Simon Pegg's character is talking to the headmaster and while t...

Tide print advert analysis We are presented with a print advert presenting Tide. Tide is a washing powder and the print advert is aimed at women with the women on the front because of the traditional stereotype about women being house wives in that era.  We are presented with a white female throughout the advert. Next we are given a headline stating "Tides got what women want!", then there are illustrations throughout the page such as the 'love hearts'. In the middle of the page there is a box of Tide washing powder being wrapped in the female's arms and the female is wearing quite old fashioned clothing to represent an older period of time that this is taking place. Then at the top right of the advert, there is a picture of the main female at a washing machine that looks quite old and nothing from this modern era of washing machines. There is a bold red headline in a sans serif style font with a exclamation mark at the end of it. The advert looks ...