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Analyse and evaluate the trailer for the film “The Shawshank Redemption”  

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Analyse and evaluate the trailer for the film "The Shawshank Redemption" The Shawshank Redemption is a powerful, moving, meaningful movie which is all about hope and full of emotion. It's based on a novel written by Stephen King. Andy (Tom Robbins) is a banker who is sent to jail but him being guilty is very questionable; his crime being the murder of his wife and her lover. However, Andy makes the best of the situation and awes his fellow criminals by his peculiar and withdrawn character and soon befriends Red the prison fixer. A trailer is a series of small clips and its purpose, to entice and hook the audience and essentially promote the movie. In this essay I will outline the social context, significant achievements with the genre, how language is exploited for emotive, persuasive or perceptual effect, technical features and appeal to the audience, patterns and details of...

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