1. The Decent (2005) Trailer Timeline
0:06 – all the characters
are revealed in a mid shot,
happiness and laughter –
unaware of the impending
danger/doom
0:00 – preview
card/age warning
0:08 – fade in from
black, crane shot,
car on a road with
no others, middle of
nowhere
0:07 – picture
fades from colour
to black and white,
suggests their
lives are in the
past – deceased,
fade to black
0:18 –
protagonist
portrays
confidence,
certainty of
direction
0:20 – continuity editing,
sharp slicing dietetic sound,
sudden fade to black, no
non-digetic sound, final
preparation for
disequilibrium
0:05 –
production
company logo
0:11 – diegetic dialogue “I’ve
never been lost in my life”,
connotes certainty, gradual
preparation for disequilibrium
0:23 – jump cut, close
up of protagonist
isolation begins, torch
props indicates
darkness
0:27 – “I’m stuck” diegetc
sound, acknowledgement of
danger, panic and isolation
growing
0:30 – tone card
‘claustrophobia’
0:45 – cave in,
protagonists
trapped
0:49 – tone card,
‘disorientation’
1:08 –
tone card
‘fear’
0:53 – close-up,
fear, anticipation
1:11 – night vision,
diegetic screaming,
plunged into darkness
1:25 – non-diegetic
heartbeat
1:19 – torch dropped,
light source gone, fade
to black
1:53 – film title
revealed ‘The
Descent’
1:29, 1:35, 1:37
– tone cards,
critical reviews
1:57 – end
Period of Equilibrium Moment of Disequilibrium Period of Disequilibrium
