2. Strengths
Conventional
- Low key lighting
- Fade in & fade out
shots
- Quick cuts
- A few short screen time
- Dialogue ‘is anyone
there’ on black screen
and the girl got
kidnapped instantly
- Mise-en-scene e.g.
weapons
3. Weaknesses
Lighting is too ‘low-key’
- Most of the shots especially at
the beginning, you can only see
pale images
Screen time is overly short
- At the beginning, the black
screen after each short shot is
much longer than the actual
shots that tells the
story, audience may
immediately get bored from the
start.
- This trailer is mainly edited with
continuous fade in and fade out
shots with very short screen
time. Again, you can barely see
what’s going on in each shot.
4. Voiceover is too gentle in
terms of a horror film
Non-cohesive
- Throughout the trailer, the
lighting has been very low-
key from the beginning, but
towards the end the lighting
gets back to normal colour
- The last shot of the
readdressing of film name is
relatively over-colorful which
is very unconventional as
the trailer has always been
showing conventional
lighting from the start
5. Things I will take forward
Fade in & fade out shots at the beginning
or at the end to create enigma
Low key lighting as it is a convention of
horror genre
May be shots with short screen time but
not many
