The trailer establishes that a group of teenagers will be taken to an isolated house where horrific acts of violence will occur. Various filming techniques like close-ups, fast cuts, and low lighting are used to stimulate fear in the audience and portray the film as a stereotypical slasher film. Towards the end, a "final girl" is shown jumping out a window, implying she will be the last to confront the killer, as is common in slasher film theory. Overall the trailer conveys that the film will include many conventions of the horror genre through its use of character types, props, and other symbolic elements.

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In the beginning of the trailer an establishing shot shows an isolated stock location of an
isolated road and isolated house this enables audiences to identify that a terrifying
experience will begin for the teenager stock characters where the teens are taken to an
isolated house where dramatic acts of horrors will occur.This also conveys a sense of
vulnerability for the victims because this signifies that the teenager’s will have nowhere to
turn to for help because there are no shops, houses or other busy aspects of a normal
society. The use of a close up shot of the stock character a teenager denotes her facial
expression and emotions as terrified and hopeless whilst the use of contrapuntal sound
corresponds over this close upthe sound establishes loud footsteps, thisenables audiences
to identify the presence sinister of the villain and to enhance audiences to infer that the stock
themes of the plot are; binary opposites such as good vs. evil, villain vs. innocence and light
vs. darkness. The use of diegetic sound of the teenager screaming loudlyleads to an enigma
questioning viewers what happened to the girl and whether she will survive or become a last
girl standing.
Fast pace cuts of editing have been used of; a dead body, weapons, knives and a chainsaw.
This has been used to stimulate the viewer’s mood of a heightened level of; fear, dread and
disquiet. This type of editing reveals and presents the film as a stereotypical slasher film,
because this is shown through connotations of the use of weapons and knifes and brutal
violence that are the stock props and iconography that are portrayed in a horror sub-genre
'slasher.' These types of stock props enables audiences to identify the villain and to avow
the sub-genre of a slahser film, this therefore enhances audiencesto deduce that the
weapons (phallic symbol) symbolises; death, bereavement and quietus as the weapons
(phallic symbol) are used to slay and slaughter victims which therefore demonstrates the film
challenges horror conventions of a slasherhorror film, this therefore distinguishes viewer’s to
recognise that dramatic acts of horror will occur throughout the film.
Thriller conventions are reinforced by diegetic sound such as heartbeats, chainsaws, wires,
screaming and heavy breathing and flash bulb sound affect. This captivates the viewer’s
attention and therefore, heightens the sensation of fear and anxiety for audiences alarming
them that, brutal violence and demise will take place throughout the film.
The trailer falls within the queue of the stereotypical slasher film; this is shown through
connotations of the iconography. For example, the stock characters and stock props of the
villain, weapons and verisimilitude -outrageous gore and blood. For example, the villain is
identified as; strong, psychopathic and dangerous man chasing victims with his chainsaw.
This implies that thriller conventions are reinforced by stock props because a chainsaw
(phallic symbol) connotes the symbol of death hence, this creates a disturbing panic for
viewer’sthis alsodistinguishes audiences to infer that the narrative structure of the film
consists of stock characters such as a villain whom uses his props to brutally murder his
victim’s this is reinforced by the use of iconography.
Technical codes such as low key lighting have been used to present the villains face in a
fearful background of dark shadows. This creates a sense of fear for viewers because the
dark shadows that contrast around the villains face in a cinema creates a sense of panic for
viewers because the lighting in the cinemas is already dark these shadows therefore
reinforces a horrendous feeling of the dark in the audiences denoting an element of threat
posed in the film by darkness because darkness is juxtaposed with the feeling of, sinister,
evil and calamity.
A master shot signifies 4 teenager couples that are stock character’sthese characters are
stereotypicallydepicted in the queue of a slasher film because teenagers are affiliated with a
rebelliouslifestyle such as, sex drugs and alcohol. This therefore signifies that the film
challenge’s the conventionsin a horror film because teenagers are stereotypical characters

2. that engage in sexual activity and lack knowledge. Hence, this leads to the villain slashing
his teenage victims as a punishment for this rebellious lifestyle.
A cross dissolve has been established of the teenager’s in a vehicle where the car crashes
across onto the side of the road. This connotes that the introduction of Disequilibrium has
been foreshadowed. The implication of an establishing shot of the isolated house and the
use of dietetic sound “where are you taking us sir” reinforces a sense of anxiety for viewers
because this concedes viewer’s to distinguish that the teenager’s will be traumatized by
Leatherface in the abandoned house. This invites the audience to empathize with the
character’s fear and traumatization that will occur.
Towards the end of the trailer low angle establishes a last girl standing jumping out of a
window, this links to the final girl theory that she is the last woman to confront the killer, this
would also connote that she is sexually unavailable, avoids a hedonistic lifestyle and is
intelligent and vigilant. A low angle reveals the villain taking possession of his chainsaw high
up in the air this allows audience to infer that dramatic evil acts of horror will occur denoting
that the film conforms to horror convention’s as horror film usually feature a villain
possessing a weapon (phallic symbol) reinforcing the idea of dismayand demise. This also
creates a sense of panic for viewers witnessing the acts of disturbing behaviour.
The Narrative Structure of the trailer links to different types of theories. For example, Claude-
Levi-Strauss's approach to the narrative theory of binary opposites is identified in the trailer;
good vs. evil, teenagers vs. villain and dark vs. light and innocence vs. darkness. The trailer
also signifies that it relates to Vladimir Propp's theory of the limited number of charter types,
for example, the recognition that a villain exists in the film and other characterssuch as
police officers and sock characters of teenage couples. Significantly the trailer shows a link
to TzvetanTodrov’s narrative theory of Equilibrium and Disequilibrium. Final Girl theory is
constructed in the trailer of a last girl standing that confronts the killer and escapes from the
villain’s segregation. Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze theory would suggest that the 2 female
characters are established to be a sexual objectification for male audiences to objectify them
as a desire and to be exploited for visual pleasure in a cinematic gaze.