Trailer Review- Moneyball

1. Narrative
The film Moneyball is based on a true story about the Oakland Athletics major league baseball team. This sports drama is about the Oakland A's manager Billy Beane's attempt to put together a successful baseball team on a low budget. He ends up hiring a computer-generated analysis to draft his players. The narrator of the story is Billy Beane because we see through the trailer that he is the main character. We also see that the film focuses on his side of the story and how he tries to create a winning baseball team. Time is presented in chronological order- first when the problem arises about the budget and then the managers mission to work around the budget in order to create a successful team with the resources the budget allows him to have. Th film is definitely realist because its based on a true story. These event all happened in history. This film shows the struggles of the economy that goes on and how even when money is low, you still can be successful just by using the resources around you to the best of your knowledge.

2. Cinematography

The cinematographer uses a lot of of CU's and LS's to establish the mood of the film and the setting/location. There are a lot of CU's in the film to help emphasize the main characters stress and worry about the team and wether or not what he's doing is going to work out in the end. We also see that in one scene where the manager is sitting in the stands by himself in the empty stadium, that the lighting is low and dark which helps to show his hopes fading away. I personally like this scene shown in the trailer because we see that he is sitting in the stadium alone which symbolizes that he is the only one that has hopes for the team. He stands (technically he sits in the shot) alone. Throughout the film, most of the shots were stationary; there isn't many scenes where it is handheld or shaky. Actually, thinking about it, I don't think there was any shots that looked handheld.

3. Editing

In the beginning of the trailer, there wasn't many cuts because the content of the scenes needed to be expressed but as the trailer went on, things started to slow down. Towards the end of the trailer the cuts between each shot were taking longer to transition because of the mood of the scenes being shown. The shots in the trailer are pretty straight forwards because they give you the information needed in order to grasp the whole concept of the film. The rhythm of the trailer is pretty constant throughout the whole thing. This is necessary so that the audience can react emotionally to the events that are taking place in the film. Towards the end of the trailer the cuts between each shot/scene come more together and not so drawn out because we can tell that the managers work starts to bring everything together.

4. Sound- Score and FX
There are no distorted sounds in the film because it is a realistic film (based on a true story). In the beginning of the trailer the score is up beat from the use of drums and an electric guitar/bass. This shows that their every day life keeps moving faster as the managers job may be coming to an end based on what he can do with the team. Towards the end of the trailer, the sound slows down with sounds from a violin, drum, and an electric guitar. But this time the sounds are lower and not as fast paced. This expresses the mood of the film in certain areas as tensions start to rise between the people and the faith they have in the manager. Through out the trailer, there is constant music and audio being played. There is rarely any moments of complete silence.