Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Analysis of a Video Game - Fallout 4
This is a trailer for the popular series of Fallout. The series follows a post apocalyptic wasteland, with most of the games taking place in the 22nd and 23rd century, following survivors after a nuclear war in the 50's.
They released this trailer to promote the release of the game, which is coming in early November. The trailer switches between showing the 50's and the future, showing the destruction in between. The first shot of the trailer is a mid close up showing a television with the emergency please stand by message showing with diegetic white noise. The shot then begins to zoom out showing a weathered and decayed house, with it showing the living room. As it pans round, it then switches to how the house was in the 50's, with clean walls and no broken furniture. It then switches back, with a dog standing in the doorway, showing the first signs of life. The house also shows that nature is beginning to take the world back, with a tree growing through the roof. The dog walks through a kitchen and the camera follows, with it then changing back to the 50's. A robot is then shown carrying milk, with it switching back and forth to the past and future - this also can show that humans were more advanced then, but the robot also says that we were responsible for our own destruction as robots have the stereotype of destroying everything. The camera continues to pan round showing the dog walking through the hallway - the hallway shows decay worse then the front room did. The doors hang off,the frame are rusting or peeling, there is debris all over the floor and a pile of leaves suggesting that its autumn. It follows the dog into a child's room - this is shown by a crib and toys scattered about. It flashes back to the past, showing the first people in the trailer, bending over their children and playing the mobile. It then changes back to the dog nosing the mobile - this is to make the audience sad for the child as you don't know the fate of the baby yet. The dog then runs through the town - the town showing the same level of decay and shows a wasteland. The editing cuts back to the 50's - people run down the road with a plane flying low above them. It then continues to show and cut between the dog and the 50's.
The editing then cuts to door moving backwards. It then begins to show some of the scenery and more of the game play - it shows a post apocalyptic wasteland with everything abandoned and makeshift cities. This is to make the audience excited to walk through the game themselves as it shows the different parts of the map.
The trailer then shows what happened to the people at the beginning for the people who have never played the game before - a nuclear explosion happens, making the audience feel shocked and have sympathy for the people. Back to the dog - the camera follows and pans up showing a huge metal suit which has the face of the game. It cuts to show a long view - you can see a person beginning to walk up to the dog which changes to a mid shot revealing a man stroking the dog. He shoulders his gun and begins to walk off and the screen goes black. The logo and fallout being to show, showing off the name for anyone who didn't know it. The final frames are of the developers the website to find out more information.
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