Video: Technology in Gravity
This clip from a trailer for the movie Gravity features a lengthy excerpt from the movie itself. Watch the clip and then consider the questions below.
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How does this clip use visual effects to tell its story? Could this story have been told twenty or thirty years earlier? Why or why not?
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Lots of movie trailers cut together a variety of scenes from different points in the movie, while this one uses an extended section of one part of the movie. Do you find this strategy effective as advertising? Why or why not?