TEASER TRAILER
The trailer below follow the style and genre of horror. It uses iconography that is common to its genre, through the use of and types of characters they have used, such as a victim in a hospital bed and a villain chasing her, we can clearly tell a part the different between each of the characters, for example the character the audience is suppose to recognise as the villain, as he wears a mask to hide his face from his victims typical of most horror villains in horror films, the main villain is also carry’s a knife for a weapon although the character of the victim who is prostrated as a young female who has gone through a terrific situation is also holding a weapon (gun) she is no way shown using it, she is also prorated to be quite defenceless. The character of the villain moves in the darkness and in slow, suspicious mannerism.
I feel that the character of the policy officer or a member of authority is always used in horror movies to exaggerate the fact the villain is unstoppable.
The trailer is set a night, in either a deserted street , hospitals or their own home, feeling that the character is all alone in their setting adds more fear to the audience it also uses low key lighting throughout the trailer and quick cuts of day time, again a typical iconography of a horror films.
The trailer in general follows a non-liner scene structure, i feel that this is done as to not reveal to much of the film actions, living some mystery to the audience, however between 55sec- 1mins 5sec it appears to me following a liner film structure. This may have been purposely done to allow the audience to briefly follow the film before being interrupted by a screaming girl, engaging them and wanting them to want to go and watch the film in the cinema.
The trailer those not introduces location very well at all it used a levelled long shot, all you can make out is a dark street, with a few low key lights and a police car coming from the distance, you can hardly even make out the opening characters, she just looks like a black blur.
The narrative of this trailer on like most beings about half way through the clip at 1mins 24sec ,and its slow paced and very deep. I feel that the use of a narrator was done so that the audience can some what figure our for themselves the trailer and enjoy it for about a minute, and narrator helps them to fill in the blanks about the trailer such as the quote ‘ the secret about his madness will finally be revelled’ and also to persuade the audience that the film is worth watching.
The trailer’s theme follows a continuity of the other Halloween trailers, it is still the same Mike Myers going out on a rampaging killing spree.
The pace of the trailer starts of slow cuts to black and stays that way until about 1mins 15 when it gradually begins to get faster in pace as the music changes so those the pace of trailer by 1mins 39sec both music which is non digetic and cuts speed up to synchronise with one another. The changing of pace in both the cuts, scenes and music creates a lot of suspense for the audience as the are even more curious about what’s happening. the voice over and back grounded noises all create a sort of naturalistic environment the sound of the knife slicing the floor to match the action not that it also adds effect and emphases on the knife cutting the floor board.
Throughout the trailer I feel that a greyish-blue filter was used, you can see it clearly between 31sec-46sec. this was probably done to give the trailer more of a night time effect .
The informational graphics revealed is a message from the film rating and MPAA (Motion Picture of America Association) organisations at the start, which is in a green background with clear bold non serif writing. Then graphic from the main film company appear in a black back ground and bold non serif blue writhing, the black background was used so that it was easier and looked more effective when the cut into the first shot which is very important. the end captions or graphics become more creative they made the captions look as if the have been clawed or sliced with the knife at , the end captions all follow a continuity with each other but not with the first captions.
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