Before a movie comes out or is released, the main attraction that will determin whether the audience want to watch the movie is a trailer. Usually in every trailer it is full of fast clips with titles shown throughout the trailer. The creators always put the best clips from the movie to keep its audience attention and to do this the creators of the trailer add extra lighting effects and sound effects to give the audience an impression that the movie the creators are advertising, through a trailer, is different to other movies. They try and leave clues and even comfuse the audience to make them think what it is all about. If the trailer is succesful and wins the audience over, they often want to see more, this is when a website is created, which sometimes include interesting facts and information about the movie. Obviously the most important information is the dates that the movie is released.
This is what I tried to do for my trailer having the typical protagonist who finds themselve alone and vulnerable in a dark room, nowhere to run, and like always we know what end result would be to that person. Just like other movie trailers, it leaves people questioning on what may have happened to one of the main characters or why is this villain haunting or killing these vulnerable people. All these questions is what grabs the audience, it leaves them wanting more.
A trailer that has influenced my ideas throughout the making of my trailer is 'The Grudge' and 'The Ring', this idea of having a little girl trapped in a cellar works similarly to the woman and child who are haunting this old home, but when someone enters their home, the villains end up haunting them and everywhere the vulnerable person goes, they seem to find themselves lonely with no help and the villains appearing everywhere. 'The Ring' is also similar in the sense that, whenever someone encounters themselve with this strange girl, she will keep re-appearing wherever they go. So these where the elements I used for creating my trailer. A little girl, scary, and whoms face is not clear haunts a vulnerable kid, which is typical in most horror stories, and ends up going for others.
'The Ring' was a film that influenced me the most it was from the film that I got some of my ideas. One of them was this close-up shot that I used of the scary character 'Rebecca', which is similar to the close-up from the movie which is a good shot because we can see the facial expressions of this evil girl, just like the clip from 'The Ring' with one half of the face covered by the hair. Even though the lighting is lighter on my image, the shot still works because all this shot does is fix our attention to the character and nothing else around them, just like 'The Ring'.
This shot is a good reaction shot which shows the vulnerable character's fear in this evil person. Even though these two clips are not very similar, it once again makes the audience concentrate on the character and blocks everything else around them. Like I mentioned before the vulnerable person always seems to find themselves lonely and helpless, here we can see a good example of that where its just the two of them, lonely, so this was why I filmed this reaction shot, to show the audience that this person isn't joking; he's actually really scared. I am happy with my trailer because I havn't given the story away but still kept it intersting with clips that catch the audience eye. The good thing about my trailer is that it shows most of the main parts from the trailer, withought giving the story away, but it finishes with a zoom-up of the other two characters but we don't know what happens to them, so baring that in mind, there is diffinately more to the story of this trailer.
The whole point of this trailer was to scare the audience, because of the genre I chose, in my case I believe is does not do that but it doesn't take anything away from it, I believe it is still interesting because there are parts that can be considered scary, but because of how the trailer runs it doesn't make a scary trailer. But let's not forget that this is a trailer, if this was a trailer for a movie, the trailer may not be scary, but I can assure the movie would give a different affect. In a way I could say that I'm trying to trick the audience telling them that its a horror trailer but them believing its completely the opposite. This is where I could twist things around when they watch the movie. Its just what many movies do, theres always a twist in them.
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