This document provides a detailed shot-by-shot analysis of the trailer for the film Annabelle. It describes each scene, shot, and edit in the trailer, noting things like camera angles, lighting, sounds, and any elements that build tension. Major events summarized include an initially normal neighborhood setting, dark and scary subsequent shots, sounds of crickets and then a loud noise with blood splatter, glimpses of the killer, a lady holding a creepy doll in the dark with light behind her, flashes of the killer in action, and a final shot of the doll with blood in its eye.

1. Hifsa Hussain Media A2 Trailer Analysis
Moment of disequilibrium
Period of disequilibriumPeriod of equilibrium
Annabelle Trailer Analysis
Studio Indent/
Production
Company
0:01
Normal house,
in quiet
neighborhood
Long cuts scene
to scene, each
camera shot is
long. 3 Major Cuts
0:04, 0:05, 0:09
Non-diegetic
music, building
tension
Black Screen
showing
something else
about to
happen. 0:30
Promotion of
producer. Well
known.
0:32
0:34. Dark
neighbor
hood, scary
0:36, Dark
room, normally
sleeping, the
diegetic sound
in the back of
Crickets,
making it sound
scary.
0:43, its silent
then you hear a
loud noise and
see blood
splatter, builds
tension.
0:48 we see
killer 0:49 as
the lady gets
up the next
door lights go
off, as if
everything is
fine
1:12, we hear a
non-diegetic
sound building
up, then we
hear a lady
whispering
loudly, freaky.
1:14 camera
cuts to a lady
holding a doll,
the place is dark
but behind her
there is light, we
cannot see her
face.
1:24 we see ‘killer’
again behind her,
shows something
will happen
1:26 screen
blacks out
We see
flashes and
quick shots
off the killer
in action. 5
camera cuts
1:32, We see lady
sitting with ‘A’
written on wall
with blood. We
hear the music
‘dying out’
1:48 we get
a close us of
the doll with
blood in her
eye.
1:36- telling a
story + Sound
bridge
1:52 name
of film
1:57Black
screen with
chair creaking,
with piano.
2:04 doll in
the chair
shows she
could be
Annabelle
2:14
release
date