The movie that mostly inspire me and have a direct impact on my passion to become a filmmaker was Back To The Future. I decide for this assignment on editing analysis to look back on the original theatrical trailer release of Back to the Future. Looking back on it Universal MCA did great job promoting this wonderful movie. Over the years, it became a pop culture icon and we are in the year 2016. Everybody today still talks about Back To The Future a movie that came out over 31 years ago.
Watching the original trailer really makes you want to watch the movie over. The opening of the trailer you see space and then the Universal MCA logo comes up, now a days they just known as Universal Studios dropping any addition name like MCA. Fade in, hearing lightening it has very low key lighting indicating its at night then you see a close up of a clock with roman numerals turning to 10 o'clock pm. A voice over narration comes on saying "Steven Spielberg presents Back to the Future a Robert Zemeckis film." We see something like a car from behind in a medium close up that has been modified in a futuristic way coming out of a truck in reverse blowing smoke. The voice over narration then introduce us to Marty and a dog in medium close up looking at this strange car coming out of the truck. The background has low key lighting at night in some parking lot. Marty is wearing a blue denim jeans and jacket with a red life preserver over his denim jacket slowly looking at the strange car from his point of view. A voice over from a character comes on saying " No McFly has ever amount it to anything in the history of Hill Valley". It jump cut to the character later known as Principal Strickland finishing what he was saying. You see both Principal Strickland and Marty in an extreme close up on the 180 degree line face to face and Marty response " Well history going to change". Jump cut, we see a close up of a dial with a finger and thumb being turn up pass the 100 maximum limit level then jump cut to the top of a guitar with a silver clip striking a string on the guitar then jump cut again to a huge speaker that blows up sending Marty flying across the room hitting the bookshelf still wearing his blue jeans and jacket with pair of sunglasses, but no life preserver. The background had high key lighting and it was in a garage made out of wood. Voice over narration saying "1985 is not his year".
Jump cut back to the parking lot at night, we are introduce to Doc Brown coming out the strange car with a white radiation suit and over his right shoulder we see Marty in background with his blue jeans and jacket with his red life preserver. We see an extreme close up of the car in front with head lights then we hear Marty saying "You build a time machine out of a Delorean." It jump cut to the car all in grey aluminium color in a low angle shot then jump cut to Marty wearing a yellow radiation suit driving the time machine then getting a close up of the digital time code of a radio telling where Marty is going or what year he is going to. The voice over narration is saying " Doc Brown sending Marty 30 years back in time." This is indicating Marty volunteer to go back in time in the trailer but, without giving anything away in the movie Doc Brown preset the time machine to the year and date of November 5, 1955 showing Marty how the time machine works. They were under attack , being shot at and the gunman gun jam and Marty jump inside the time machine to drive and get away without realizing he was about travel through time involuntary . Marty crash into a barn in 1955 close up of the barn entrance then it jump cut to a wide angle lens seeing the time machine or Delorean crashing into the barn. It was a night then you see Doc Brown screaming "it works" on the side of the Delorean knee down looking younger wearing a gray robe.
It cuts back to a comic book, Tales From Space on a extreme close up a graphic match where the spaceship on the cover looks similar to the Delorean time machine . A kid saying "its a flying saucer from out of space" then kid pulls away the comic book to revealed from behind a medium shot of Delorean with very low key lighting with a little pink background. You see the family in a medium shot scream in terror closing the barn door and a close up of Marty wearing the yellow radiation suit on the ground looking at family screaming. Extreme close up of the newspaper reading November 5, 1955 and jump cut to Marty in close up shot wearing his blue denim jacket with the red life preserver . Jump cut to Marty's father in the diner asking for a chocolate milk shake that slide to him . Marty's father George is wearing a white shirt with gray light jacket , high key lighting in a medium shot with Marty in background drinking a soda watching his father from a far distance . Jump cuts to George with binoculars on a tree peeping then jump cuts to Marty in a close up saying "he's a peeping tom." It jump cut to George almost falling hanging on the tree in a low angle shot. Jump cuts to Marty wearing red and tan jacket being push by a black car in a close up then jump cuts to Marty jumping through the air with a wooden skateboard as a long shot then landing on the sidewalk as a match on action shot. Jump cuts to Marty skateboarding behind a truck as the trailer introduce Marty's mother in a close up shot.
We see Marty with his blue denim jacket with his red life preserver seating next to his teenage mother wearing a grey and white square pattern dress at the dinner table in Marty's mothers home then it jump cuts to Marty's mother Lorraine trying to kiss Marty and he was falling off the bed breaking the 180 degree rule. Jump cuts to Doc Brown home where he is talking to Marty. Doc Brown is on right side and Marty is on left side of 180 degree line facing each other in medium shot. Marty is wearing his blue jeans with denim jacket but, no red life preserver and Doc is wearing his grey robe seen pictures of famous scientists on top of the fire place and lamps in the background. Jump cuts to Marty screaming "no" wearing the yellow radiation suit in extreme close up. Jump cuts to the clock tower at night with the lightening sound in a low angle shot and a cable is being thrown from the top of clock tower. Jump cuts back to Marty's mothers home both of them sitting by the dinner table and extreme close up of Marty's father sitting in cafe or diner then you see Marty moving slowly in extreme close up right next to his father in the middle ground that is still in extreme close up shot and blurry shot of the waitress in the background and Marty's father George in the foreground.
Jump cuts back to Doc Brown home, Doc and Marty is talking and Marty is violate the 180 degree line and Doc is on the left side while Marty is right upper corner. Jump cuts and we see Marty on the right side and Doc opening the door to his house is on the left side of 180 degree line greeting each other while Doc is wearing one his invention cap. Jump cuts to Doc Brown on the clock tower while lightening sounds in background and he screaming in fear when he sees the gargoyle. Jump cuts back to a gunman shooting at Marty in a low angle shot. Jump cuts to a low key lighting you see Marty's hand on the stick of the Delorean putting car in forward then close up of Marty with his red life preserver and zoom in on to digital time code of the radio of the time machine saying October 26, 1985. Marty is going Back to the Future from 1955 to 1985. A series of close up shots of the pollutinum being inserted into the time machine then Marty's feet touching the paddles of Delorean then speed meter then extreme close up of one of the Delorean wheel. Jump cuts to Marty and Doc in the school as match on action shot seeing Doc walking upward and away wearing a hat and a white coat from Marty with his red and tan jacket while talking to each other , jump cut to close up of Marty with his red life preserver at night hearing lightening in background then jump cut back to Marty with his red and tan jacket talking to Doc Brown who is wearing a hat with a white coat in the school still a match on action shot then finally it fades out and we see the words Back To The Future. A great movie and trailer for its time in the 80's and I highly recommend everybody to watch this masterpiece of cinema .
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