Daredevil trailer

Daredevil is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Daredevil is based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, the film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and out of the courtroom as the masked vigilante Daredevil. Jennifer Garner plays his love interest Elektra Natchios; Colin Farrell plays the merciless assassin Bullseye; David Keith plays Jack "The Devil" Murdock, a washed up fighter who is Matt's father; and Michael Clarke Duncan plays Wilson Fisk, also known as the crime lord Kingpin.

In the roughest part of New York city called "Hell's Kitchen", there lives a boy named Matt Murdock and his father, who is a boxer. One day, Matt ran into an industrial accident and become blind after his his eyes were exposed to a toxic chemical, but it also gave hin other supernatural senses. Then , his father was killed by a mysterious figure. Matt, who is now a lawyer by day; he is also, DareDevil who hunts criminals by night. He then, met and fell in love with Elektra Natchios, a daughter of a wealthy tycoon. Has hired another super-enhanced human named "Bulls eye", who always hits his target. To eliminate Daredevil and Elektra. Now, the 2 must stop Bulls eye and the Kingpin.

The opening to the daredevil trailer is different to the ‘Dark Knight’ and ‘The Punisher’. It doesn’t have Todorov theory that a narrative starts as equilibrium. Also that unlike many action, fantasy and science fiction film, it opens with the hero’s logo or trade mark, DD, which stands for daredevil. This allows the audience to understand the character, but also to identify him. This occurs in many trailers like this, but many are mid-way through or at the end. By the logo being at the beginning of the trailer it allows it to be more affective in drawing the audience in. As you can see from the mise en scene in the shot, the logo is centre frame, compared to the police guards. Also the colour of the logo being red, yellow and orange, it doesn’t identify that character as the hero. By this use it draws the audience in even before the trailer has really begun.

This leads on to showing the audience who the film is distributed by, 20^th Century Fox and Regency logo also allows the audience to refer to other film distributed by them. The colour scheme of the second shot is blue and black. This doesn’t symbol the film, by this the colour scheme for the hero, daredevil. After that a fast edit cut to the opening scene.

At 14 seconds into the trailer, the audience gets to identify what may look like the villain, but is the hero. The use of dark colours such as red to represent Daredevil is a good example of Claude Levi Strauss’ Binary Opposite theory. How Daredevil is positioned on the rooftops with angels is also a good example of this, by ‘Devil’ in the title is the opposite to angels. Later at 1 minute into the trailer, another character is identified.

Inter-textual titles between scenes.



 The trailer ends in the classic way that all trailers do, with the title of the film: ‘Daredevil’ used in the Inter-textual titles between scenes and then editing such as fade out and then a fade into the release date. This reveals to the audience so part, but not all. In turn this will lead to the audience wanting to go and see Daredevil.