Task: Salt: trailer analysis

Salt is a Columbia made film which stars the very well known actress Anjelina Jolie. The film is going to be out in 2010 and here is my analysis of the theatrical trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNkTFao5_UI

Within the first half of the trailer, the basic outline of the films story is given away. I think this is good because it states the story straight away, which means it will become clear who this film will be targeted at. The trailer gives away that a russian spy is going to kill the american president in New York. We also find out that the russian spy is the woman questioning the russian guy. This tells me that this film is going to be a intense action thriller because we find that the "spy" (Anjelina Jolie) will be on the chase from her colleagues. I think that this film has aimed itself at both men and woman. Woman will want to whatch it because the main lead is a Anjelina Jolie, this means that woman will be fighting men in the film when usually its men fighting men. Men will also want to whatch this film becuase it seems to be like an intense thriller and that Anjelina has the "sex appeal".
Through out the first half of the trailer, there are slow cuts between shots. I think this is because the audience dont want to get all tense when finding out the plot of the film. Also, the non diegetic music is slow, dark and then slowly gets faster and the music changes as we find out who the spy is.
In the second half of the trailer, there is a variety of different shots used and the non diegetic music speeds up and goes in sinc with the timing of the cuts. This tells me that we are going to get a sneak preview of what the audience is going to experience during the film. Also at the start of the trailer we get told the main story line, in the last few shots of the trailer, we see a woman peeling off some sort of face mask. This tells the audience that there maybe a twist in the story which the audience will have to go whatch to find out what it is.
Overall, this film trailer is a good example for ideas we should take for our trailer because it uses areas in which we plan to use in ours. We should perticularly look at how the creaters of the film have made a potential twist in the film and how they have created the suspence.