The document provides context about the film Unfriended. It establishes that the main enigma or mystery of the film is who uploaded an incriminating video and why a ghost is attacking the friends. It notes that the trailer builds anticipation by counting down the characters and leaving the audience to wonder who will die first and how. Reviews shown in the trailer aim to convince the audience the film is scary and worth seeing based on its fast pacing and tension. Throughout the trailer, fast editing, screaming, and glitches are used to create suspense without revealing too much of what happens. Camera angles are limited since the film takes place over video chat, but close-ups are used to heighten tension.

2. What is an enigma?
An enigma is either a person or a
form of object that carries a
mysterious element that one tries to
figure out what it means. This leaves
the audience in a state of questions
on what is going on in the film and
how it is going to end. Leaving such
enigmas makes it more likely for the
audience to go and with the film as
they are curious in what is going to
happen. An example of this is a
riddle or a paradox.

3. Unfriended
In the trailer Unfriended, the enigma of this film is who uploaded the video and why is
girl who is haunting her friends attacking them when it may have been someone else?
The only way of finding out why this is going to happen is to watch the entire film and
find out why this is occurring. Missing elements that have been left are who is going to
die, how they are going to die and who will survive? That is the main question on the
audiences minds because the genre is a horror therefore it is likely that someone is
going to be killed in the film. Moreover, the trailer created anticipation by counting
down the amount of people left and who is going to die first in some sort of order. The
audience will want to know who will go first and how; in which the countdown showed
how each person was almost going to die but cuts off to the next countdown to cause
the audience to wonder what happened to them.
Reviews and Accolades
The reviews and accolades are where different media industries give their opinion on
what the film is like and rate it out of 5 stars. If the film has been told it is really good
and is given 5 stars, it is more likely that the target audience will go and watch it in the
cinema. In the trailer, these reviews are shown at the same time the anticipation, and
tension starts to build up in the trailer there fore no voiceover is needed to announced
the reviews as it could ruin the atmosphere that the audience is experiencing. It is
edited to be fast paced to get the audience to know how scary the film is, and what
others think of it so the audience will think that it is worth being seen in the cinema.

4. Editing
Throughout the trailer, it is mainly fast paced editing that created the most suspense
and drama, screaming and shouting also creates tension because it creates a sense of
panic within the audience to make them feel this way. The entire film is based on a
video chat which makes it seem quite different in the horror genre because it creates
more confined spaces so the audience doesn’t know what is happening around the
characters except for the fact that the characters can be seen on the screen. Also,
because it is based on a video chat, it is likely for the internet to freeze which freezes
the video chat for some people. The use of this means that when the person is being
attacked, it glitches; not fully showing what is happening to them, but only showing
parts of how they are being killed. This contributes to the fast paced editing as glitches
are quick but also freezes to show a screenshot of the victim during which makes the
audience feel uncomfortable. Therefore being a good convention of the Horror genre.

5. Camera and Lighting
There haven’t been a lot of camera angles and movements within the film
except for the fact that the webcam represents a mini screen that contains
these angles and changes. It is mainly the usage of close ups and long close
ups because the characters are looking though a webcam on their laptops to
speak to each other and that the scenes are mostly, or all based around these
areas. The lighting used is artificial light because it can be seen that it is based
within each characters homes and it the background of each camera, a light
or a lamp can be seen. However, when the ‘’glitch’’ in the trailer says lights
out, the only light that can be seen is the light coming from the computer
screen. All that was once around them cannot be seen due to the confined
camera angle of the webcam.