Trailer Analysis

After reviewing each of the three trailers I have found lots of features that I want to replicate in my own trailer.  Se7en gave me an idea of the sort of lighting that I would like to replicate in my own trailer. The use of low-key lighting throughout the entire trailer set a dark tone to the film without even revealing a lot of the plot itself. In this trailer, they used a lot of dark blue/green tones which gave the audience a sense of foreshadowing, I feel like when it comes to my own trailer I will be able to use filters over the top of my filming so that it replicates the same kind of lighting in Se7ven, working to my advantage so that the people watching my trailer will automatically know what genre I am trying to convey, and to show that the equilibrium of the setting has been disturbed.

Although all three trailers used a lot of fast paced camera angles, I feel like Poltergeist used this the most efficiently as they started off the trailer in a normal housing estate, with a family moving into their new home. I would like to replicate this tranquil atmosphere at the very start of my trailer so that the audience are lulled into a false sense of security, then I will make each scene darker and darker until I can hint at the murders that will be in the film. This worked particularly well in poltergeist as there is a large contrast between good and evil, people are just trying to live their day to day lives but the evil spirit being will not allow them to live peacefully.

The ring gave me a good idea as to how I can edit my videos together, I like the idea of not having everything in a chronological order as this is a very confusing device and the audience are left not able to fill in all of the gaps in the plot. My target audience research also proved that the majority of people do not like horror movie trailers where too much is revealed to the audience as they like a lot of the plot to be left to their imagination. With a psychological horror there is almost always a dramatic plot twist as well so if everything was put in the trailer, there would be no reason to watch the movie as you would know most of what was to come anyway.