2. ‘Dead Silence’ As the story behind the woods is a
This shot from ‘Dead Silence’ shows major part of our film we wanted to get
someone telling the story/legend of as much as possible of it into the trailer
Mary Shaw which plays a huge part in so we have multiple shots of this
the film. character telling the story. We also have
a lot of voice overs where she is still
talking but different parts of the film
are shown, often things that relate to
what is being said at the time.
3. ‘The Crazies’ This long shot shows the main
This long shot emphasises the main character of our trailer on her own,
characters solitude by showing him running away from something. She
alone in a deserted town. It also pauses for a second and looks behind
emphasises that something will her before continuing to run. This
happen to him as he is the only one identifies her as the main character and
left, and it shows that he is the main suggests that she is the only one left as
character. previously she has been shown with
someone else.
4. ‘Sorority Row’ & ‘The Exorcist’ We used this negative image of the
This black and white shot in ‘Sorority pentagram in blood on the tree in the
Row’ signifies the part of the film same way as in ‘Sorority Row’ – it
where everything changes as this is the signifies the instance that everything
part where one of the girls is killed. changes for the main characters.
In ‘The Exorcist’ trailer the numerous Another reason we used the negative
greyscale shots are used to emphasise image was to introduce the
the supernatural theme and are used to otherworldly theme and to show that
show that something unnatural is something supernatural has happened
happening. (similar to ‘The Exorcist’).
5. ‘The Skeleton Key’ We use the pentagram a lot in
The use of symbols and things our trailer as it is a symbol
associated with the devil is commonly associated with the
common to Horror/Thriller films devil and demons. Also it is often
as they are unnatural and used in films for summoning
emphasis the themes of the demons and otherworldly
supernatural and of people creatures which is what happens
fooling around with things they in our film trailer.
shouldn’t.
