The Way Way Back Full Length Trailer Analysis

• The Way Way Back is presented as a coming of age film as the protagonist is a teenage boy that clearly has a romantic interest in a girl. The trailer also uses the conventions of a coming of age film as the characters regularly joke during it, and are shown in dysfunctional relationships.
• More characters are introduced in this trailer and given larger speaking roles, the audience learning more about their backgrounds. However, this is not conventional of a coming of age films as there would not be so many characters over the age of 18.
• Themes of family relationships are introduced in this trailer, and the teenaage romance is developed further. It shows that there is a darker side to the film, in contrast to the upbeat teaser trailer, as the protagonist cries and other characters argue
• The music changes three times during the trailer, pausing for dialogue and punchlines to show that the film is a comedy, all lively songs but decreasing in volume for more emotional scenes
• Editing is used in this trailer, for example, to show cuts between scenes, which engages the young target audience who could possibly become bored of a lack of edited transitions.
• The pace of the film is moderately slow to begin with, but then a montage of clips from the film, showing a contrast of happy and sad scenes, conventional of a coming of aged film as they follow the ups and downs of teenagehood
• There is, again, a lack of headings shown, only the 20th Century Fox logo briefly at the beginning in order to engage fans of that production company and the title of the film at the end.