Ghost Recon Wildlands

In this clip, there are a lot of creative technique used. Right at the beginning, it has a man talking with  subtitles at the bottom, even though he is speaking english. This gives a serious mood to the clip as the audience have to concentrate right from the beginning. There are diegetic sounds of men being hurt, accompanied with non diegetic, low level sounds which crescendo into the noise of a helicopter. This tells the audience that something, most likely an action shot, will come. While the music is rising, there is a pool of blood which trails off into the cracks on the wooden table. The camera pans to show this blood traveling around violent weapons such as guns and knives. These props suggest the character is involved in an illegal deal. The blood then drops off the table, and this blood drop is transitioned into a man skydiving. I like this technique as it connects two scenes, but does not tell the audience how they're connected, e.g. what did the skydiving man have to do with the blood and guns.

Once the man appears, the non dietetic sounds stop and you can hear the wind and birds. Then we hear music which indicates some action, and it makes the audience feel more upbeat compare to the previous scene. This is the part of the clip where it becomes apparent that this is a trailer for a video game. We receive point of view shots of a man locking his target and tracking of the car.

Then it goes back to the blood on the table, and this time it trails upwards into a white powder, which is presumed to be cocaine. The cocaine absorbs this blood and it looks grainy, and the camera zooms into this and it transitions into a birds eye view of soldiers running in the rain, and the camera tilts upwards so you can see their whole bodies. This is my favourite transition in the whole of the clip because its is original and inventive. Again like the previous transition, it connects two scenes but leaves the audience questioning why.

Later on in the clip (2:50) a soldier throws a drop into the air, the camera quickly zooms into the drone and the next shot is a point of view form the drone. This provides continuity as the audience knows exactly where the drone is going.

Even though this clip has very different themes to our groups opening sequence I decided to evaluate it as it had transitions and techniques I had never seen before. Also, I personally don't watch video game trailers but I had never seen one with such detail and though gone into it.