Choice of Trailer Style

                 CHOICE OF TRAILER

As a group we have decided to focus on a highlights trailer. We believed this to be the best choice of trailer due to the fact it can contain a fast paced montage of different clips from the film. We have researched into highlights trailers and believed that this would suit our trailer more. We liked the fact they usually start off with the equilibrium being challenged and later they lead to the best parts of the film being shown to scare the audience and leave them wanting more. We are planning to use a mixture of shots however we think that it will be effective to include close ups. The use of a close up shot will enable us to show the emotions of the characters easily and see the pain in their eyes as the story progresses. We are also going to have a mixture of both contrapuntal and parallel music to create a disorientated pattern that affects the mood of the observers and make them curious as to what is going on.

 

We have decided to include the use of a hand held camera in our trailer however we understand that this can often be overpowering so we have decided to have the use of a normal filming camera alongside it, so that we get a personal viewpoint as well as an observer’s role. As a group we have come to the conclusion that one of our favourite shots is when the camera is used at a canted angle. We believe this to be the most successful simply because for the horror genre it works incredibly well and creates a sense of disorientation and suspense. As a group we have decided to use a myriad of different shots from, high angle, low angle, close ups, medium two shots, and establishing shots. We have decided to select so many as we think that the faster paced and more rapid the trailer is then the more successful it will be. We looked through many trailers that had a mixture of shots and felt that they were scarier in comparison to other trailers with less amounts of camera shots. We believe that because our trailer is going to be psychological then the use of the over the shoulder shot and point of view shot will work well at making the audience feel involved. This technique is used cleverly in other horror trailers because it makes us sympathise with the characters that are actually stuck in the horrific situation.