The narrator says "I want to speak to someone in charge", the quote is effective because to ask for such a thing infers to us that something has gone wrong, or he has seen something he was not supposed to and therefore wants to get to the bottom of what is going on. The music then drops into the sound of a fog horn really loud to catch the attention of the audience, the first shot shown is of a jam packed highway where everyone seems to be trying to escape form something, people who are fans of the original film would presume that this something is Godzilla or some other type of monster. The shot then pans up to show a catastrophic sight of a plane crash right in the middle of all the cars, this seems to symbolize the state of panic which everyone seems to be in.
The next part of the narrators dialogue says about a "natural disaster" rather than a monster, he seems to know that this is indeed a cover up and that the government are just labelling stuff what
they please to not cause mass panic. The music then drops again into an over the shoulder shot of a city under siege leading us to believe that there is some sort of conflict between two powers of the world. Once again it seems to emphasize on panic, this time by showing children running, this conforms to stereotypes because naturally kids are seem as innocent, harmless and should be put at the forefront of any sort of survival situation, The teacher is also taking on a stereotypical role by caring for everyone else's safety before her own.
The narrator once again quotes about the lack of natural disaster before it cuts to a shot of who we presume to be a main character running against the tide of traffic, this is symbolic because it shows the power he has in this situation as he is running towards the danger, this is usually the case with superhero's who also don't run away from danger rather face it head on.The fact that everyone else is in a hazmat suit or engineering outfit leads us to believe that they are at some massive underground plant where they deal with highly volatile and dangerous substances such as uranium.
The next shot of the military convoy being escorted by the helicopters is also very helpful when establishing the film as it shows us whatever problem they are facing it will need the full strength of their army to do it, of course however the strong military presence will lead to panic in the place they are going as people know that the army in their town is not a good sign.
The panning up shot then establishes the destroyed city we saw moments earlier with massive chunks taken out of the developed buildings, this sort of power to destroy what took us hundreds of thousands of years to innovate is a bit daunting as it shows that against such force we truly are tiny. The close up of the statue of liberty after that shot gets the audience thinking because it is such a well known landmark which is supposed to be a symbol of the freedom, equality and liberty shown in America destroyed by an unseen entity. The narrator then establishes himself in the movie by stating that it will "send us back to the stone age" by this he is saying that this creature has the power to destroy everything we have created whilst hardly lifting a finger or moving a muscle, such power can only be exhibited by something of massive proportions.
We then get shown our first shot of the creature in question, shown from a birds eye view looking down over a bridge we get to see Godzilla swim straight under it and the first thing which shocks the audience is the sheer size of the beast as it easily longer than the bridge, we then get to see the power of the creature for the first time when it lifts up the whole ocean moving two destroyer ships out of the way like they were some sort of toy. This type of thing would be daunting even to an audience member because it makes them think "what would i do in that situation?".It then shows an over the shoulder shot from the back seat of the car where it shows an ongoing rush of water (tsunami) caused by the creature in question, once again the audience sees the unstoppable force of mother nature this time cause by the monster.
The next bit of the trailer shows a group of what seem to be highly trained soldiers searching for answers to the questions asked, a significant part of it is when it shows a close up of a soldiers hand moving aside some sort of chemical to expose the radioactive material sign, this spells the disaster and the audience would first think of a nuke as they are very commonly associated with nuclear weapons.
This is then built upon with the unveil of nuclear weapons and the description of the nuclear tests by the Marshall islands in 1954, It then shows us Godzilla's back once again in the water which seems to be its native habitat and then then the whole screen goes white to indicate the arrival of something powerful, that being a nuclear weapon used to try and destroy Godzilla, the mushroom cloud then shown is an image which everyone will know and should be afraid of (a nuclear bomb). After this it says "this summer" to display to the audience when the film will actually be out so they know how long they have to wait.
Another battlefield is showing with Godzilla once again choosing to stay hidden, the two person shot is who we presume to be the main protagonists of the film, it then shows a close up of Ken Watanabe a character who comes across as very sophisticated and intelligent. We then get two quick shots in quick succession of something flying and then hitting the water after one frame to avoid exposing it completely to the audience.
We then have a very long shot of a city surrounded by dark clouds to show that this is where stuff will go down, this is after the over the shoulder shot of the parachuter's jumping out of the plane, in the second shot you can truly see lines of red smoke to show where the parachuter's are in comparison to the actual shot.After this it shows a shot reverse shot between two characters who we presume to have some chemistry especially seeing they have so much emotion on their faces.We then get a POV shot of a soldier looking on as planes all around him are falling out of the sky, this makes the audience think "why", "is there an interference" "have they been shot" etc. The last shots of the trailer show four flares shot up into the air either symbolizing a symbol of help to onlookers or it could be a warning shot of impending danger. The shot we then get is of Godzilla once again not showing the full features of his face rather his humongous size. We then get a rapid amount of shots shown in a row of action, emotion, tragedy, hope, helpfulness, danger and then to cap it all off we finally see Godzilla face with the doors shutting to keep our imaginations active. The title of the film is then put in front of us with the sound of Godzilla in the background, the title has Japanese in it which leads us to believe that Japan has a major role in the film. We then get the date as well as all the proper authentication to tell us the movie is 100% legit.
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