ANALYSIS OF TRAILERS

All lesson I researched into all the current horror trailers that have been produced.‘The Omen’

Whilst watching the trailer for this, I took notes on things I found most noticeable.

First thing to be seen:

‘The following preview has been approved for all audiences’

Sound: starts with dog panting, use of wind, no dialogue, swing squeaking (gets louder as it gets closer as does the sound of orchestral music) when text appears on screen loud drumming sound.

Camera Shots: pans across to a little boy on a swing, zooms into swing – tracking, point of view shots, medium shot of dog, includes no establishing shot (don’t know where you are) mid shot of little boy, little boy smiles.

Mise En Scene: dog– signifies devil, abandoned park , sun, trees cover therefore darkness – signifies danger, little childrens playground – little horse, small boy in red (enhanced so it stands out) red signifies danger – the devil.

The Grudge 1, 2 & 3

I focused on the teaser trailer for The Grudge 3. I didn't particuarly like this trailer as I preferred the mystery and build up of 'The Omen', however I did like how the cuts became faster towards the end of the trailer, I feel this successfully built up tension and suspense. 

I also liked how the trailer was edited and especially how the text was brought in and the text used. I thought the white flash between some clips was really effective and believe it would be effective if used within a trailer of my own.

The sound within this is quite effective and believe it does make the trailer as when watched without the music I didn't find the trailer as appealing. I liked how on some cuts there was a loud drum which cause me to jump and built tension well.

‘The Ring’ 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQSKQN8Llk

Having seen this film I decided to check out the trailer. I think the trailer was too long and gave away too much of the film because the dialogue played over the scenes practically gave the entire film away which then gave people the choice on whether they wanted to see the film or not instead of building up tension and leaving them wanting to see the film to see what it's all about. Therefore I hope not to do this by making my trailer too long and too revealing, and with 'The Ring' being 2:11 I don't believe it to be very 'teasing' for the audience.
However, negative's aside, I do believe that the trailer is very well edited. I especially (like the grudge) like how as the trailer comes to the end it builds suspense with the use of fast edits.
The music that was used in the background was quite fast and the tune made it sound like she would be on some sort of mission, which when watching the film you find out she is (to bring an end to the videotape, save her son from bring killed and solve the story and mystery to the little girl's - Samara's life.)
This trailer however, doesn't use much text and instead uses dialogue. In the way this dialogue is used I don't believe it to be very effective as it does just give away too much of the storyline. Therefore I think it would be a lot more effective to use short, sharp, to the point text.

All these have inspired my thoughts and I have managed to narrow down what kind of horror trailer I wish to produce.

First, I decided whether I wanted to work as part of a group when producing my horror trailer or as an individual. I wanted to decide this first because then I could start planning my trailer myself or with others immediately.

 I came to the decision to work as part of a group as I believe we could come up with a wider range of ideas and therefore make our trailer look more believable and of a higher quality.
My group consists of me working with two other people in my class, Alex and Tewsdae. Together we have put ours ideas together and managed to select a specific type of horror we wish to produce. We noticed a gap within the horror genre, whilst many horrors use ghosts, vampires or demented looking children; we found that not many used the idea of china dolls and as many of us within the group found them to be scary when we were younger we found this appropriate. We came up with a basic storyline for our trailer and what characters we want to use. We decided whilst we were going to use china dolls, like other horrors we were going to use the idea of a ‘demented’ child, however she would be used as a lifelike china doll (representation). We also decided upon using us 3 as actors playing students and a little girl who would be the ghost in our clip. This is still yet to be developed.