3. The film is about a woman becomes involved in a series of
unauthorized exorcism during her mission to discover what
happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people
during her own exorcism. It starts of at a slow pace and changes to
a rapid pace that gets your heart racing. There is an effective use of
wipes and fades, these transitions add to the fast pace nature of
the trailer to add tension. The use of dark colours is evident and
adds to the trailer to make it look more scary and gloomy. The trailer
conforms to its genre’s conventions as it uses fast paced music
when it gets to the scary bits to shock you as it has been quite up
until that point. It contains possession in people who is a common
theme in this genre. The trailer challenge it’s genre’s conventions by
using speech and dialogue in the trailer instead of creepy music
and sounds. I think its target audience is 15+ as that is what the age
certificate is on the film. It appeals to this audience by using both
teenagers and adults as characters to make it relatable to the age
group there aimed at. The storyline makes us feel empathy for the
girl whose trying to help her mother but makes us wonder why she
would put herself through this even though whats done is done. It
makes us relax a bit and then when we are not expecting it, it gets
scary and makes us jump.
Orphan
5. It is about a couple who foster an orphan. she is bit strange
and starts to show signs of abnormal behaviour. She is a
young girl that makes everything dark and has a twisted
mind. The transition from one scene to another sets a horror
feeling as it flashes from one scene to another to give the
effect of lightning. There is use of white screens with black
gothic text to stick with the horror theme. There is an
effective use of wipes and fades, these transitions add to
the fast pace nature of the trailer to add tension. The use of
dark colours is evident and adds to the trailer to make it
look more scary and gloomy. The little girl is the main
character and contrasts with the rest of the cast as she has
a dark costume and is dressed old fashioned, while the rest
are wearing normal clothes with colour. This age certificate
is also a 15 so is therefore aimed at a audience of 15+
which again is aided by the use of young and old
characters.
7. A crime writer who moves house finds home movie
films that suggest the murder he is currently
researching who used to live in the same house is the
work of a serial killer whose career dates back to the
1960s. There are some good jump scenes in this
trailer. The font is capitalised and easy to read and
fits well against the background used and the genre
of the trailer horror. There are some effective use of
transitions used from one shot to another like the
flickering images. There is transitions that almost acts
as a flashback as the young girl who used to live in
the house playing on the swing . This is a different
technique of transitions from one shot to another
rather than a fade or a straight cut which is usually
used.
