This thriller film trailer uses several techniques to build mystery and suspense. It begins calmly but tension rises as the mother cannot find her daughter on the plane. Shots become faster and sounds intensify as she searches. The dim lighting, rainy weather and confined plane setting add to the rising claustrophobia and unease. While starting peacefully, the trailer manipulates shots, sounds and narrative to gradually heighten tension, leaving viewers questioning what will happen next.

1. Analyse on thriller film trailer :Flight plan
Genre signifiers
The genre signifiers in this film are very mystery and therefore it
creates a lot of suspense. For example when the little girl get lost in a
plane and when her mum finds her teddy left on the seat. The scene
creates a lot of tension and enigma codes to the audience by leaving
them questioning to them self, such as
•Where’s the little girl?
• What happened to her?
• there was also a mysterious coffin
•The mother was touching the drawn hearty shape on the window
referring to picture 4.
•there were also whisperings
Figure 4

2. Figure 2
The dialogue in the beginning was calm and quiet but
then the dialogue created tension such as people
shouting and screaming.
The body language of the people seemed very frighten
and scared at the end of the trailer. This was built up
peacefully and slowly at the beginning.
The action at the beginning referring to figure 2 was very
normal and usual. Such as their were people sitting down
silently and they were very they were calm.
But referring to figure 5 at the end there were people
Figure 4
running high-speed and they were looking and searching
in unusual places. This created tension such as she starts
to run like a mad person and she beings to shout and
scream at the captain. This made the people on the plan
frighten and scared, this also seemed like she was talking
over control in the big plane.
Figure 5 Figure 2

3. Figure 1
Settings
The setting was placed in a big mysterious airplane which
some people might find it quite claustrophobic.
However referring to figure 1 and 2 it was set in the night
so the lighting was quite dim and gloomy.
The weather added suspense such as it was raining and
the clouds were swirling around and the sky was dark
navy blue. Inside the airplane had loads of little cupboard
and it had small places and lots of different coloured
wires such as blue, red and yellow.
Figure 2

4. Narrative Figure 3
This film is a claustrophobic mystery film, so in this
film there’s a mother who has a very young
daughter who is a 6 year old has you can see in
figure 3.
However the little girl father has past way so
referring to figure 4 they are heading to America
from Berlin on a massive double Decker plane with
their dad coffin in it.
However at the beginning of the trailer it starts off
with a clam quite atmosphere, then after when the Figure 4
mother is awake n after 3 hours later in the plan she
finds out that her daughter has disappeared next to
her. Therefore she starts to search for her and she
ask all ladies has you can in figure 5. This creates a
lot of tension and excitement in trailer.
Figure 5

5. Sound and music Figure 7
The sounds in this thriller film at the beginning was clam
and peaceful has you can in figure 7. Therefore it had
relaxing music such as the piano playing very calmly at the
start of the trailer.
However the trailer had sound and music that got intense
and very curious and sounded very mystery, they were also
non dietetic sounds.
Also in figure 6 the sound was getting faster and very
serious this was when the mother was searching for her
daughter. So the sound grabs audience tension and it makes
audience question them self what is going to happen? This
makes it very terrifying.

6. Editing
The editing in the trailer had shots of sense that were
very sharp of the film which were very tension
grabbing. Also there were lots of quick flashes of
mysterious parts of the trailer has you can see in
figures 8, 9. Figure 8
his made it very curious and interesting to find what is
going to happen next. Also the trailer had mysterious
lights flashing in the trailer, and there were colours
that were dark such as navy blue and black this made
the colours in the trailer looked as if something was
concealed.
Figure 9

7. Institutional aspects
The director of the film is Robert Schwentke
The producer of the film
is Robert DeNozzi
Charles J. D. Schlissel.
This film was written by peter Dowling Billy
ray.
Box Office
Budget:
$55,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend:
£1,694,350 (UK) (25 November 2005)
Gross:
$89,706,988 (USA) (3 March 2006)
from: http://ww.imdb.co.uk