2. • A Nightmare on Elm Street contains typical conventions of a horror trailer as it contains a
supernatural being along with children and a lot of jumpy moments which the non diegtic
dramatic music contributes to as well as blood and gore. All these conventions adds to the
suspense of the horror trailer which is typical within the horror genre.
3. • The Women in Black follows typical conventions of a horror trailer with scarey/eerie music
and taking the idea of innocent children and manipulating them into being something feared
which is common in the horror genre. There is a lot of darkness involved in the settings and
a supernatural being to make the audience scared of the unknown. There is fast pace
action towards the end showing another typical convention of a horror trailer, also the use of
the nursery rhyme to make it more eerie because most nursery rhymes are about death for
example, ‘Ring A Round A Roses’ is about the plague.
4. • The Haunting in Connecticut 2 follows most typical conventions of a horror trailer.
Such as using children, supernatural beings, darkness, settings of the woods etc.
These are all typical of the horror genre to scare the target audience however the
start of the trailer is almost like any normal family fun loving trailer, this is because
of the non diegtic banjo music at the start of the trailer which may confuse the
audience as to what genre the film is. The target audience may be turned away
from the film.
