This document provides a summary of key scenes and elements in the trailer for the film "Devil". The trailer establishes mystery and intrigue by showing an upside down establishing shot of New York City, implying unusual events. It introduces the main characters and suggests through dialogue that one of them could be the devil. Scenes show the characters have random chance encounters in their ordinary day that bring them together in an trapped elevator. Non-diegetic music and text reinforce the random and chance nature of the events. The costumes represent the different characters - one appears sophisticated but flirty, one looks like a criminal, one is a security guard, etc. The camera zooms deep into an air vent towards the trapped elevator to heighten the

1. Devil trailer
Chloe Mason

2. • The very first image we see is an
establishing shot of New York with
text “on any ordinary day” however
the image is upside down. This
suggests that the on goings are
going to be unusual and off
balanced implying that something
not normal will happen. The image
then changes and flips the correct
way up.
• To introduce the main characters
tracking is used. The first woman
says “Do I look like such a threat?”
this creates foreshadow and enigma
within the audience and suggests
she could possibly be the devil. This
also creates a mystery within the
trailer because no one knows for
sure who the devil is.

3. • Another image of New York is shown, again upside down continuing
with the off balance events that will occur within the film. And
snapshots of each main character are shown, fading in and out on
each.
• Non diegetic background music is used. The high pitched tone
creates an eerie atmosphere before the film even begins properly.
You can also hear ambient sounds of the hustle bustle of an average
day in New York which suggests that this was just any normal day
when something goes wrong that could have happened to anyone.
• Through different scenes, the text, shown on different shots says
“On an ordinary day” “Our lives are filled” “with chance
encounters”. This leads the audience to believe that these events
are random and again suggests it could have happened to literally
anyone, and it was just chance that brings the five people together.
This would cause the audience to think more deeply into the story
line.

4. • The costume of each character represents them
in very different ways. The first lady is wearing a
blazer, white top and scarf. This suggests her to
be sophisticated however her white top is rather
low cut so reflects on her personality aswell.
Possibly she is the type of flirty person who likes
to look nice but also wear respectable clothing
too. The second character we see is the first
male. He is stood in the street in what appears to
be dirty clothes. He also has his hood up. This
automatically creates the stereotype of him
being a ‘criminal’ or ‘thug’ because of the way he
dresses. This also suggests he may be of lower to
middle class with not a very high status and
show that he doesn’t have a job as he is in the
middle of the town in the middle of the day
doing nothing dressed in casual wear. After this is
the middle aged woman, dressed in a suit; we
are only shown the top half of her body, around
the shoulders upwards. This focuses on the age
of the character and shows she is older than the
rest of the main characters. The next character is
the security guard. He is wearing a security guard
uniform. This instantly reflects on his
status, middle to higher class because his well
respected job but also suggests he is safe to be
around as his job is to protect people.

5. • The camera then zooms in to the top of the
building and goes inside from a vent the top. The
camera speeds up and goes deeper and deeper
into the vent before stopping at the elevator all
the characters are trapped in. this suggests that
there is something racing towards them that they
don’t know about and there is nothing they can
do about it because they are trapped. It is when
the camera reaches the elevator that the elevator
stops so this shows that it is something that is
doing it, we just don’t know what the something
is.