Friday, 19 October 2012

Textual Analysis Of A Horror Trailer




The saw 6 teaser trailer includes most of the key conventions for move trailers. It is easy to find out what genre the movie is as all the saw movies have devoted fans that keep watching the sequel. The movie trailer begins with a blank screen and sound of thunder and a siren with screeches. This is a typical use in most movie trailers as it creates an edge of the seat impact on the audience willing to see what happens next. The next scene is a scene which all saw films begins with a man/women being tortured in some way. This trailer genre is horror but not a supernatural horror, it is more like a thriller where people are getting punished for being bad. The sounds used in the film trailer is of the victims creaming and shouting. At the end of the trailer the name of the movie pops up just after something horrible has occurred, this is the most dramatic bit of the trailer as you see something bad is about to happen but miss it as the trailer ends.

This technique is what we would like to have in our trailer as it creates a big impact on whether the movie is worth watching.


The mise en scene is based upon one room with extremely dangerous machines able to take a life of a person. There is one television screen which all films in the sequence have. On the screen there is the antagonist which pops up and tells the victims why they are in the situation.

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