The document provides a detailed analysis of the camerawork, sound, editing, mise-en-scene, and conventions used in the trailer for the horror film "Insidious". It notes that the trailer effectively employs several horror film conventions, including setting the story in a family home, using low key lighting and gloomy colors, incorporating sudden loud noises and changes in dialogue to build tension, and employing fast-paced editing to fit more scary clips into a short trailer. Overall, the analysis concludes that the "Insidious" trailer skillfully uses many standard horror film trailer techniques to create fear and suspense and make audiences want to watch the full movie.

1. Detailed Analysis of Insidious Trailer
Camerawork;
 Establishing shot of the family home, this shows the family to be a
normal family but it also shows where the film will be set and it shows
the house to be a conventional horror film setting.
 Two shot used when the little boy is in a coma, it is used to show the
parents expressions and also shows the family’s life is about to change.
 Point of view shot of the main female character showing her going to
something which creates the scary aspect as she is very slow and scared
of what she is going to look at.
 Zoom focus on key things such as baby monitor and the rooms to show
she is scared and that something is happening.
 Handheld camera gives the film trailer an amateur affect which works
well as it shows what the character is looking at very effectively.
 Close up of character with the monster behind which is very sudden
makes the audience scared as it is a very jumpy moment in the trailer.
Sound;
 Creepy clock ticking while it shows the family’s happy life, this creates
tension makes the audience to expect something to happen. The noise is
started by a clicking clock by is stopped by the women stopping a rocking
horse.
 Diegetic sound is used for thing such as screaming, creepy noises, baby
crying are uses of affective diegetic sounds as they create tension and
create a scary element of the trailer.
 Non-diegetic sounds such as the music added is used to build the
tension and set the scene. It is a piece of music which is conventional for
a horror film as it is very fast and creepy.
 Dialogue changes throughout the trailer. It starts just normal speaking
but there isn’t much of it but as the trailer advances, the dialogue
becomes more hurried and shows the family being in trouble as there is
a lot of shouting but there is also very soft and gentle dialogue which is
just as effective as shouting.

2. Detailed Analysis of Insidious Trailer
Editing
 Fades to black a lot in the trailer to show that something else is about to
happen in this trailer and makes the audience want to see what happens
next in the film as they don’t show the whole clip. This will make the
audience want to watch the film in full to see what happens. There is
often some sort of speech in the editing to add tension to scare the
audience.
 Fast paced editing is conventional for a horror trailer as the high speed
of the trailer allows there to be more in the trailer. It also makes it
scarier as the trailer is jumpy and it builds tension.
Mise-en-scene
 Props: Rocking horse, ticking clock: both props that are associated with
horror films as they create noises that can be used to scare people. The
creaking and ticking, if used affectively, can be the simplest way of
scaring people as they audience are waiting for it to stop and they know
as soon as it stops, something will happen.
 Location: Big family house: Rooms in the family house is where the film
is set, this is conventional for a horror film that it happens in there
housing as it is normally the house or a family member that is haunted.
The little boy is the one who is haunted and it uses his room the most
and also his younger brother’s room. This is a conventional location for a
horror film.
 Clothing is very plain and there is a lot of blood stained clothing in the
trailer. This creates a scarier trailer as you want to know what happened
to them and makes the audience want to see what happened.
 Low key lighting is used throughout most of the trailer as dark colours
are conventional for a horror film. The low key lightening creates a scary
aspect and a creepy, gloomy setting which makes it harder for the
characters to see what is happening. In turn, this makes it scarier for the
audience to watch.

3. Detailed Analysis of Insidious Trailer
Conventions of genre
The insidious film trailer is very effective in the way it uses key aspects to
make it effective. It is a conventional horror film trailer due to its uses of
mise-en-scene, for example the props are conventional as they create
tension and make it scary. They use the props very effectively to make it
scary. The props such as the rocking horse and the creaking door create
noises which can used to make the scary affect. The setting is
conventional as it is set in the family’s home. This is conventional as it is
normally set in a house which is haunted or a member of the family is
haunted. They use low key lighting to create a dark and gloomy affect.
This adds to the tension and makes the film gloomier and makes it more
of a sad and scary feeling which would match the characters in the film.
Things such as blood stains are conventional for a horror film as it shows
horror and tragedy which is conventional for this type of film genre. The
editing used is conventional for the genre as it uses fast paced editing to
create affect and to fit more moments in the trailer to scare the
audience. This makes the trailer jumpy and scarier which is conventional
for the genre. The fade to black they use consistently through the trailer
links in with the low key lighting used. The black and gloomy colours
represent fear and terror which is conventional for this genre. The non-
diegetic sounds used in the trailer are conventional for the film trailer
because it is fast paced and doesn’t consist of any words. This fast paced
music builds up the tension and gets faster as they show scarier clips in
the trailer. This makes it scarier and builds tension which is conventional.
The use of diegetic sound is conventional as the sounds made by the
creaking door; the rocking horse and the baby monitor are conventional
because the noises made by these props are associated with scary noises
and noises that will build tension. This is conventional. The dialogue
used changes throughout the trailer as the trailer gets scarier, the
dialogue because more hurried and panicky which creates the horror in
the genre. The use of camerawork in the trailer is conventional, the use
of the establishing shot which sets the scene of the film is conventional
as it is telling people it is set in their home which is a conventional
setting. Also the use of the two shot is conventional as it shows the
family’s life changing because of this. This is conventional as it shows the

4. Detailed Analysis of Insidious Trailer
twist in the trailers story which is conventional and allows the audience
to understand the story line. Zoom is also used and is conventional as it
zooms on things in the trailer which are important and scary. This is used
to emphasis the object to be scary because of the noise it is making
which is conventional. The use of point of view shot and handheld
camera is conational as it shows what the character is looking at slowly
and builds the tensions and suspense which is conventional for thins
genre of trailer.
Conventions of form
The use of the little short clips in the trailer creates the tension which is
conventional for a trailer. The use of the title is conventional for a trailer
as it builds up the tension and allows the audience to remember the film
name. The fast paced editing allows them to put more clips in the trailer
which allows them to builds tension and to make it scarier. The use of
cutting the clips makes it scarier as you be shown he whole clip because
it builds the tension makes you want to watch it.