Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Trailer Analysis: Key Conventions

The Roommate:



Key Conventions:
  • Change in music to create a scary mood. In the trailer the music goes from a cheery guitar riff to a eery high key piano riff, which has repetitive thuds on the drums.
  • The trailer builds up in tension as it goes on.
  • Inter-titles to add extra information and gentle hints, e.g 'Only have one Room mate'.
  • The actors voices are normal and happy at first but change to soft and scared at the end.
  • There are a selection of moments which appear in a disorientated sequence to scare you. For example there are jump cuts to extreme close ups of the stalkers face.
  • The jump cuts were always on the loud thud of the drums.
The Hitcher:

Key Conventions:
  • Dialogue from selected areas of the film played in the background so that the audience can understand the plot.
  • Flashback to normality in the middle of chaos.
  • Choir hymns are sung when we go back to normality however violent strings and loud crashes are played when the trailer becomes more thrilling.
  • Quick fade out to black.
  • Flashes from black to picture quickly and repetitively to build tension and disorientation.
The Fan: 


Key Conventions:

  • Voice over hinting to the plot of the film. For example 'To one fan he meant so much more. A fan that never stopped believing... Always watching...Waiting to be a part of his life'.
  • Inter titles that show the producers and actors names
  • Starts off with equilibrium and ends with dis-equilibrium.
  • Music gradually builds up pace.
  • Loud hits of a bat on jump cuts.
  • Quick fade to black's.

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