Diana's A2 Media Blog

I think that the trailer starts with a very conventional way of using the flashy effect and then the male character gets throwing into the camera. The used of fade into black is very effective which gives the trailer a slower pace to start with. Adding some scenes of audiences in the cinema could give other audience a general idea of how scary the movie is, and the reactions of them suggest the fact that they are all scared of it. There is a second of an extreme close up of the monster adding some monster-sound like effect which reinforced the paranormal theme. I think that the CCTV vision is quite scary and it works well with no sound, because sometimes silence can be quite scary.



This is the trailer of The Shining 1980. It is rated as the top 10 scariest movies in the industry. I have chosen as one of my favourite trailers because I think that the soundtrack goes well with the scenes. The trailer continues using the same shoot of a interior location which established where the story will be located. The mise-en-scene included a lot of red which connotes danger, blood and attention. After the inter titles appeared, blood starts flowing towards the audience which scares me the most. The repetition of the creepy soundtrack which is constantly repeating the same rhythm which could make the audience to feel unstable or expecting there will be something jumping out suddenly. In the trailer, there is no actual characters showing which I think it works quite effectively because the trailer would allow audience to imagine. As well as it is the movie version of a famous fiction.



This is a trailer of a Spanish horror movie with a lot of gore elements. The trailer starts with a female character talking and she remains as the main subject as the trailer progresses. Low key lighting is used, and the lighting source could be the torches that the firemen have. Fading into black is also used frequently. Handheld camera work is used almost the whole trailer which makes audience to feel included in the scenes. Showing a lot of close ups and extreme close ups of the characters expressions to make the audience to feel more real.