How Film Tricks Make The Witcher 3 Trailers Look Badass | Mise En Cutscene
210The Witcher is now a series as prolific as it’s world is expansive, so much so that adoration for the CD Projekt Red games has given it enough status to be worthy of a stellar Netflix adaptation that’s due for a second season next year. The Witcher Netflix series is well-shot, well-acted, and visually perfect, but it isn’t the series’ first foray into cinematics. No, I’m not talking about that crummy film The Hexer, nor its show of the same name. I of course mean The Witcher 3’s cinematic trailers. So, let’s analyse them in this episode of Mise En Cutscene, aye?
There are three trailers for The Witcher 3 that are primarily cinematic. The Witcher The Trail, The Witcher Killing Monsters, and The Witcher A Night To Remember. In these three The Witcher cutscenes, there are three different cinematic analysis that I’ve been able to take a look at: extreme close ups, graphic match cuts, and slow motion.
Graphic match cuts are where two scenes are cut between by matching colours, shapes, and framing to connect them in a holistic or symbolic way, like Geralt tracking The Witcher Yennefer’s steps on the battlefield in The Witcher 3 The Trail. Extreme close ups are used when something is important and the director/editor wants you to remember it, like The Witcher Geralt’s trembling Witcher medallion in The Witcher 3 A Night To Remember. Slow motion can be used for all sorts of different things, and in The Witcher 3 Killing Monsters it’s used to show off how skilled a fighter Geralt is and how intense his attacks are.
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