Thursday, 28 November 2013

Trailer Analyses: Key Conventions


Final Destination

  • The non-diegetic sounds which created a tense feeling
  • Blank black slides with messages to hint what will happen, giving away little clues
  • Cliff hangers before the deaths
  • Showing the previous films, encouraging new audiences for people who have not seen the previous films. Voice over of female main character
  • Not a lot of gore, however you could tell it was a horror due to the predicted deaths and also showing the Todorov narrative theory, The equilibrium, the disequilibrium, but leaving the new equilibrium out to persuade people to go and see the film.






The Omen

  • The evil child
  • Losts of jump shots and fast pace
  • No music to begin with then progressively got louder and faster.
  • The music and screen shots worked together
  • The typical nuclear family At the end the main theme of ‘666’ is shown.
  • Release date and production company





The Orphan

  • The pace was slow but still creepy and tense
  • Didn't give anything away except from the hint that ‘there’s something wrong with Ester’.
  • Close ups of little features.
  • Ending of diegetic music of ester singing a typical nursery rhyme
  • Lots of crying and screaming. The nuclear family Release date and production company
  • Jump scare at the end.



Extra Large Movie Poster Image for Orphan



No comments:

Post a Comment