The document analyzes the trailer for the film "Enemy" and discusses techniques used to convey mood, character, and mystery without revealing plot details. It notes how establishing shots create an unsettling atmosphere and close-ups of the main character immediately give the audience an impression. Scenes of the character moving frantically through the city leave the audience with a sense of paranoia and suspicion without fully explaining the plot. The goal is to engross the audience and make them curious to learn more by seeing the full film.

1. Enemy Trailer Analysis
By Leon J Connelly

2. The opening shot of Enemy is an extreme long shot of Toronto, filtered
through a sepia dirty yellow filter. The shot is desolate an conveys with a
simple establishing shot of the location of the film lots about the film without
dialogue or music. The city is colourless, lifeless almost with an almost apoloyptic
background that seems to run forever. In my film during the opening shot of the
trailer I want to establish the mood and feeling of movie, simply through the shot. The
camera slowly zooms forward creating a sense of unease and suspicion. The modern
City is a very common location for the mystery genre and as usual this opening shot conveys
The mystery genres obsession with darkness of modern life. In my film with the shots of the
Modern city in my film I want to create the same atmosphere of terror and fear.

3. The shot suddenly cuts to a close up of the main characters face. He seems
almost shocked by the suddenness of the cut, as he turns towards the camera
in the shot. He looks distressed unshaven, tired, immediately creating an
impression of the main character in the audiences mind. He looks stern but
we can’t yet decide whether this is from concentration or anger. In my film for
the opening shot of the main character I also want to convey lots about the
character simply from the way he looks but also create a sense of mystery of
the protagonists motives.

4. This wide tracking shot of the main character walking through an urban
apartment complex, from a behind perspective conveys a sense of unease as we
the audience are stalk him around. This fits in with the themes of the film which
involves one character following another around. This shot also brings to mind
the Gus Van Sant “Death Trilogy” which throughout uses this type of tracking
shot behind the characters to engross the audience in the characters mind-set.
The main character is dressed in a common suit giving him a sense of anonymity
and facelessness, forming an idea of him being an ordinary man, making us more
distrustful when he begins to act in a way we wouldn't expect

5. The main character watches a DVD on a laptop and sees himself in the film. In
this trailer this the key element that should make the audience want to see the
film. The shot is an off-kilter, slandered close up of the characters laptop screen.
The footage is grainy and poorly lit creating a sense of realism, engrossing us
further in the story. When elements of surrealism are combined with realism, it
creates hyperrealism, a technique which treats strange things in a realistic way. In
my film I want to do something similar, in the trailer there will elements of
surrealism but they will be treated as almost normal.

6. The music grows faster as we see the main character drastically walking
through an urban complex, looking around suspicious and scared. The shot is
a tracking shot, but it emulates footage shot on a camcorder as the camera
shakes matching the fear and paranoia the characters feeling. This matched
with the dirty yellow filter creates an unpleasant, almost sickening feeling in
the audience. In my film there will be similar shots of the main character
frantically moving, looking suspicious. These shots without revealing to much
about the plot tell us a lot about the character and the film without giving away
crucial plot details. They also give the trailer a sense of motion.

7. A great wide low angle shot of huge looming metallic buildings with power lines
running in front of the dividing the frame. This shot strikingly demonstrates the
main characters dread and anxiety as everything, even his own city begins to look
threating to him and by extension us the audience. This is a common theme in the
mystery genre as it attempts to make us look at thing we hold normal, even things
that don’t seem to have any impact on our own lives like the way the places we live
look, and treats them with a level of contempt and mistrust in order so that the
audience can rexamine there own lives and the things that they take as being
normal and correct. In my film I wish to create a similar effect to this.

8. The main character’s partner here is framed in shoulder high medium shot against a
miserable wallpaper looking coldly at the main character as he emotes greatly to her his
feelings of obsession that he has begun to have. This here pears into the most essential
element of mystery films, the peering behind the curtain at relationships, whether they be
of a romantic or non-romantic to see what’s really going on behind the surface. Her cold
stare begets a sense of confusion and rejection people worry might befall them if they
express a sense of anxiety towards commonly held principles of society. Through mystery
films we voylusirically can see what happens when these principles are broken. The
woman in this film is an attractive blond woman, a common architype associated with
weak ineffectual, emotionally distraught people, but here her cold emotionless creates a
sense of disease.

9. The main character appears now in a darkly lit hotel room in a tracking behind
medium shot. The lighting matched with the characters jittery nervous
movements, the blandness of the room as well as the building tension created
by the escalating score of the music finally being dropped, produce in the
audience a sense of anticipation and trepidation with wants going to happen
next. This is the key aspect in mystery trailers, they need too in 2-3 minutes
create a mystery in the mind of the audience that with stick with them and
make them have to see the film to find what the revelation of the mystery is.
With my film I feel that it is essential to the film that the trailer creates this
mystery.

10. Suddenly out of nowhere the audience is given a sematic code, all the thoughts
and wonderings about what’s happening in this film that the audience gets from
the trailer