What is a Trailer Analysis

Carrie 2013

We are referencing this particular trailer in preparation for creating our own because, the plot of the film is intertextual with ours. The film is about a girl who gets bullied at her school, and takes revenge upon her peers. Similarly our trailer has the story line of a character around the same age range, conducting revenge against his high school bullies who humiliated him. Another point being that the pace of the Carrie trailer is increase throughout the duration. This is the same process that we wish to achieve within our own trailer. The lighting in Carrie is low lit and ambient which creates the conventional horror film tone, and we want to have this in our trailer, so may adapt our lighting to meet this convention. 

Black Christmas 2006

The main setting of this film is based around the Christmas holiday, and this is similar to when we want our film to be set. As well as the setting being similar to the trailer of Black Christmas, it has the same pace as what we want our trailer to be. The trailer starts of slow, but increases throughout before you get to the climax, which is what we want to achieve when creating our trailer. The music in this trailer is intertextual to the theme of the film, and is something we want to incorporate within our own trailer. We want our trailer to have low lit lighting in order to carry out a tense atmosphere, and this lighting is used within the Black Christmas trailer so we can intertextualise with this. 

The Final 2010

This trailer has a similar plot to our own. At the start it shows us why the protagonists commit the actions that they do (shows us them being bullied by people from their school). In our trailer you see the protagonist as a child and gives an explanation as to why he commits the murder that he does. The plot of The Final is based around getting revenge on the ‘popular’ group of people at high school, and this is roughly what happens to the protagonist in our film. The overall tone and atmosphere of the trailer is dark and tense, which is what we want to capture within our trailer.