The Prototype - Trailer

The Prototype comes under the genre of Si-Fi

The Si-Fi genre gives it's viewers that look into something at the current time seem impossible. It want's the audience to be able to use this as an escape from the everyday world and look into a subject that produces amazement and awe.

The trailer opens with a dark feeling to the film. The opening logo is shrouded by shadow and in accompanied by the constant echo sound. This gives the sense that the film focuses on the subject of hidden agenda and deceit. The focus of the film revolves around a military droid which has escaped from a military base and is currently on the run and hiding. The narration that accompanies the clips of the droid tells the audience that the reason for the droid to be running is because of a malfunction. Later in the trailer we get the sense that this is just a cover up for the truth that lies behind the machine. This is because of short series of clips that show the droid looking at itself in a mirror and examining it's body in a very confused manner. As well as this the phrase use 'Man will become Machine'. This gives off the idea that the droid was once a man, and from his reaction to his current situation allows the audience to interpret that this has happened against his will, or not to his full knowledge.

We also see that the droid shows human characteristics, such as love. As shown by him sitting by a woman who is asleep in a hospital bed, holding her hand. These aspects allow the audience to view the droid as a human and are now able to sympathies with it. Now that the audience can connect to the main character the trailer wants to bring you into the more high action sections of the film, now he has been found the chase begins, as the danger is now increased on both sides. We know that the military are not going to give up until they have either destroyed or captured the droid, but we also know that this droid is driven by the human instinct to survive, with the added bonus of being a weapon.