1. This is the first screen shot from ‘A Devil Inside’ trailer.
The use of realistic dates and details makes the trailer more realistic and believable.
This creates tension from the beginning of the trailer, giving the audience and indication of what genre the film is.
2. This is continuing from the phone call however, adding more scariness to the trailer by including death into it.
3. This is the final clip of the phone conversation, it comes to a conclusion with Maria Rossi, who is
assumed to be the murdered, admits to killing the three people she talked so briefly about earlier in
the phonecall.
This gives the audience a bit of background information about the story.
4. This scary image shows a young Maria Rossi, the cut shot is only seen for a millisecond.
This is used to startle the audience and make them jump with a scary image they won’t be able to
recognise and it is shown so quickly.
The dim lighting makes them feel uneasy.
5. The placement of this credit to production company ‘INSURGE’ is clever as it splits the trailer up.
This is a calm break from the scary beginning which leads on to explaining a bit about the storyline of
the film and give the audience a bit of information about what the phonecall was about at the start.
6. With the use of brighter lighting and more familiar surroundings, the audience feel more at ease
watching this scene.
It adds a lighter mood and gives the audience a chance to calm down a take a rest whilst watching it.
This keeps them interested and holds on to their attention.
7. By using a news report in this trailer, it again, adds a more realistic element as it is a familiar
concept that the audience is used to seeing in their everyday lives.
8. By using a news report in this trailer, it again, adds a more realistic element as it is a familiar
concept that the audience is used to seeing in their everyday lives.
In addition to this, a new face is introduced as Maria Rossi, relationships are now seen to be
forming as the girl talking about it is her daughter, referring back to the earlier phone call by
saying ‘When I was 8 years old, my mother murdered 3 people, she had committed these
murders during an exorcism’
9. This shows a new character of a priest, with a concerned look on his face.
This is in the same lighter location as they are all talking about Maria Rossi and her murders and
exorcism.
10. This shows Maria Rossi before she committed the murders.
This adds to the realistic effect the trailer has as it is a family photograph.
11. This establishing shot shows the location where the majority of the film takes place.
The lighting in this shot is very grey and normal.
It is quite simple and not that dramatic.
12. The use of religious imagery in this screenshot introduces a dark side to religion
which is what the film is themed
13. The angle at which this shot is taken shows that it is from a handheld camera
making it more realistic and believable.
14. Again, religious imagery is subtly shown here.
The lighting in this shot is bright and comforting to the audience as they think
nothing scary will happen in the day time, this gives them a shock later on in this
scene.
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17. As this shot appears to be from a CCTV camera in the mental hospital, it gives the
audience the feel of realism and believability.
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19. This mid/close up shot shows Maria Rossi in the hospital, this reveals her mental
state to the audience.
20. This is the same shot, however it is portrayed from a different angle giving the
impression that it is from a cctv camera, monitoring her
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22. This close up shot is used to emphasis the cut engraved in her lips.
This shocks the audience as it gets very close adding an eerie feeling that
something jumpy/bad is about to happen.
23. This over the shoulder shot shows how she is trying to draw her daughter in closer
to her.
24. As the daughter goes in closer, so does the camera making the audience feel more
involved in what is going on, giving them a shock when she screams abruptly.
25. Again, the use of the crackled CCTV shows the realistic side of this scene.
26. The dark dim lighting in this shot gives the indication that something bad is going to
happen, and in addition to this the facial expressions in this shot are all very serious
putting the audience on edge.
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29. The use of darker lighting leading to bright lights shows that something is
happening in that room that is significant to what is about to happen.
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33. The setting of this scene is cliché to exorcism scenes as it is in a bed in the
basement.
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40. This close up shot shows the kind of state the victim is in and shocks the audience.
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43. The cut shots used to show her levitation add tension and shocks the audience.
44. The font used is easy to read and simple and black
This ties in with trying to keep the trailer realistic and believable
52. A CCTV camera shot is used again at a later scene showing her having an exorcism
again, this makes the audience think that it is real footage of the event
