Trailers

The 'One missed call' trailer is effective because there is effective editing, for example I really like the way there is constant flashes of shots of the scary people that are either tormenting the victims or are something set up to scare the victims into a state of mind where they are just paranoid. The whole trailer is quite dark and has a certain mood that puts us in a awkward position. I like the way the music is the most suspenseful thing in the trailer because we instantly will relate the ring tone to death, and this the ring tone is maybe the most important way of scaring the audience because it is a signifier of death and fear.
There are statistics that are shown at the start with a non diegetic ring tone, this instantly allows the audience to know what the film is going to be about, because we know it will be a digital related film, the fact that there are facts showing at the start makes the film seem more realistic with the ... leading up to what we need to find out about this fact.
The dialogue also has quite an impact in allowing the audience to know that they should be scared of whats going on, with the first line being 'that's not my cell phone', we already know that a narrative has started where the phone is of importance and perhaps is going to change the girls lives forever.
I like the constant edits of shots where we see more dramatic parts of the film, like centipedes on a mans hand, fire starting, flashes of the villains and of the 'final girl' hiding and struggling to survive.
I think that I could interpret this into the horror trailer that me and my group will make because we could use the editing, the editing, I think is very effective and would make the trailer appealing to the audience as they would see quick flashes of scenes where they would want to see more.





'The Strangers' Trailer uses typical horror conventions that I think are common but make the trailer effective because they scare the audience. I think that music starting on its own and the swings moving on their own are typical events that would scare anyone, they create the feeling of suspense because we don't know if someone is there hiding from us or if there is some supernatural being. The isolation of a bungalow in the middle of a forestry area allows the audience to feel on edge because there is no connection to the outside world for help, the fact the 'Strangers' burn the males phone shows that they are going to have control because the male and female are now trapped and isolated with them.
The unknown noises, like behind the curtain when the male and female are holding each other gives the audience a feeling of identification as we all hear things sometimes without seeing what the noises are, the fact that the there is inter titles reading 'inspired by true events' gives the audience a definite sense of scare because the trailer is given reality and the audience belief that this could actually happen to someone, and more seriously... them.
Masked figures are typical characters to horrors, they are unknown figures, so the audience can't relate to the villain or even know who they are running from. The fact they appear standing there watching the characters is something that could easily happen to us. Writing on the window is something easily applied to add any fear factor as it means someone has been there whilst they are there and tried to create a connection to them.
I think that the conventions in the trailer are easily adaptable to our trailer we will make, we could interpret some of the ideas into our trailer for example, the whole writing on the window and making things move by themselves.





The trailer to 'Hide and Seek', I find typically scary as there has been a whole narrative set up to suit what is going to happen in the future, horrors often use children to manipulate the innocent factor to something that is scary. The way they move to somewhere new shows that a change could easily happen, the girls mother having just died allows us to know that the girl would be troubled, and giving her father some responsibility. The imaginary friend we never see, 'charlie' controls the girl, and uses her to threaten the woman who meets her father, the whole way she blames 'charlie' and draws the policeman dying, gives us a sense that the imaginary friend is very real, maybe a spirit that has influenced this innocent girl to create punishment for her father and his choices.  I think this could be interpreted into our trailer we will make as the whole children involvement and not seeing the villain adds some fear for the audience.