The document analyzes horror movie trailers based on their title, genre, questions raised, comments, and shot list. It examines trailers for films like House at the End of the Street, The Shining, The Woman in Black, and Final Destination 5. The analysis notes how the trailers use music, imagery, and narrative devices to build suspense and intrigue audiences while also relying on common horror conventions. Elements like quick cuts, zooms, fading, and changes in music pace are employed to startle viewers and leave them wanting more information on the evil forces or situations that threaten the main characters.

1. Horror Trailer
Analysis

3. Title Teaser/Trailer Category/Genre Questions Raised Comments Shot list
House at the end Trailer Horror What is the The use of the Fades to black
of the street woman running rewinding adds to regularly. Loads of
(2012) from? What's in the scariness and close ups are used
the bottle? Who is confuses and of scary looking
Kerry Anne? Who entices the objects and quick
is the man? How audience. Music cuts are used to
is he involved with stopping and make audience
the evil girl? Are starting adds to shocked and
they in a the suspense. jumpy. Use of
relationship? Will Quite a cliché rewinding to add
he be able to plot. A lot of confusion.
control the evil typical horror
girl? Why is he so conventions are
nervous? Why did used like
they move house? screaming,
murder, scary
house.

5. Title Teaser/Trailer Category Questions Raised Comments Shot list
/Genre
The shining Trailer Horror Where is it set? Narrative of Loads of long
Why are they in this man explaining shots zooming
massive house? what happened in showing the
Can the son really see to last family empty rooms in
ghosts? that lived in the house to
Who’s Johnny? that house create
What happens to the makes the suspense and
dad? audience aware make the
Is he good or bad? that bad things audience
Who are the little happen in that scared of the
girls? house. Music house. Lots of
Are the girls ghosts? stopping and tracking shots
starting creates following the
suspense. Kid little boy
screaming is around on his
quite tricycle. Quick
conventional in cuts of family
a horror trailer members
running
around. Quick
screaming
shots fade to
white to scare
audience.

7. Title Teaser/Trailer Category/Genr Questions Comments Shot list
e Raised
The Woman in Trailer Horror/Thriller What is the Scary child’s Close ups of old
Black (2012) relevance of voice narrating fashioned scary
the children? used to toys to add
What is in the juxtapose to scariness.
house? the usual Contrasting
Who is the innocence and shots:
young man? pureness of landscape and
Who is the children to add close ups.
woman in to the Landscape
black? scariness. shots are used
Why has the Pathetic fallacy. to show the
man come to Really gloomy empty scary
the house? Are weather. Dull surroundings of
the children evil colours used the house.
or victims? throughout. There are more
When is it set? Old fashion shots of the
clothing and objects in the
scary dolls. house than the
actual house to
show there is
evil present
inside.

9. Title Teaser/Trailer Category/Genr Questions Comments Shot list
e Raised
Final Trailer Thriller/Horror How did the There is a Lots of long
destination 5 explosion start? dialogue giving shots of the
How can he see away the story bridge
the future? as this is the breaking.
Why were they fifth in the Then there are
supposed to series and a lot of mid
die? How did people who shots during
the bridge watch this taking scenes.
smash? trailer know Then there are
Is there a what the films loads of quick
pattern in their are about cuts to show all
deaths? already. The the different
Are they all characters are types of deaths.
going to shown in a
eventually die? situation then
What is causing you are shown
all this to something that
happen? will cause them
to get hurt.