1. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Trailer Timeline
0:08 - 0:13 –
fades in and out,
main characters
revealed,
happy/calm
environment
0:32 – “they’re
all dead”
diegetic sound,
plot begins,
close up shot,
shows fear
0:44 – sharp,
quick cuts, in
time with the
non-diegetic
heartbeat
1:29 – diegetic
screams,
running, black
screen
Period of Equilibrium Moment of Disequilibrium Period of Disequilibrium
0:02 –
production
company
logo
0:03 – soft,
melancholic non-diegetic
sound
0:14 – tone
card, date,
contextualises
0:18 –
diegetic
laughter 0:24 – tone
card, location,
contextualises
0:29 – long shot of
girl who survived,
face unrevealed at
this point, more of a
shadow
0:33 – non-diegetic
sound,
broken record,
heartbeat
0:41 –
establishing
shot – main
location
1:07 – possible
killer revealed,
is shadowed
1:10 – dissolve
editing
1:14 - 1:22 – non diegetic
sound of camera and fast music
which creates pace, diegetic
screams, frame freezes like a
picture, fade from yellow to
black several times
1:27 – tone card, camera
bulb revealed – fades out,
producers name appears
in place
1:33 – door slams, tone
card “based on a true
story” installs fear and
sense of reality, fades out
to black screen
1:43 – burst of
loud non-diegetic
1:36 - 1:42 –gradual reduction of
diegetic sound – chain, footsteps
and heavy breathing prominent
sound,
sound bridge,
several cuts of
people being
attacked
2:04 – film
title
revealed
1:56 –
murder
weapon –
knife,
paradigm
of slasher
horror
films
2:15 –
end
