MY TRAILER ANALYSIS WILL BE UPLOADED ON MONDAY, AS I HAD TO LEAVE AS COLLEGE WAS CLOSING AND COULDN'T RENDER IT IN TIME. AL SAID THIS WAS FINE.
As my trailer changed throughout the time, therefore there wasn't a specific trailer I revolved my trailer around. I did however watch a variety of trailers, such as The Women in Black, The Purge, You're Next and Devoured. I did also decide to challenge forms and conventions in terms of the soundtrack.
Whilst incorporating distorted psychological non-diegetic soundtrack, I juxtaposed a piano soundtrack into the beginning of the trailer. From watching You're Next and The Purge, both trailers begin with equilibrium and then dramatically turn to sudden disequilibrium, which is communicated through the sound scape, mise-en-scene and cinematography. In You're Next, the contrapuntal and ironic soundtrack of perfect day is playing through the disequilibrium, which very much challenges the conventions of psychological horror, however it is that which makes it creepy and almost comedic in a sense, that for the protagonists, its clearly not a perfect day. I wanted to use slightly contrapuntal non diegetic sound, but I did it in a more subtle way, having it in the background during the disequilibrum.
Within this scene of Devoured, although not identical, the same soft piano style is present. The scenes, although are completely different, hold the same purpose. They ease the audience in, before disequibrium strikes. I decided that the scene should be something normal, from every day life, which would give the appearance of equilibrium, however I had ideas when it came to the kettle and its connotations.
To me, I used the kettle to symbolise the building climax of the protagonists anxiety, suggesting that soon she would boil over, hence the repetition of the shot in numerous parts of the trailer. I also did this with the ticking clock shot, as it would unnerve the audience, creating suspense.
I also mirrored another shot from devoured, which was the door slamming scene. In devoured, the door slam happens within the first minute, which is one of the horror signifiers. Within my trailer, the door slam is included in the montage towards the end of the trailer. As I had limitations with location and technologies, i found it harder to create suspense through mise-en-scene like in devoured, therefore the door slam is one of my more shocking shots.
The mask.
My main inspiration from professional texts was the costume of the antagonist. After seeing the poster for the purge at a bus stop, it was when i realised I wanted an antagonist who was anonymous. This way, the crimes or things they did were more terrifying as you can't put an identity to them. Although my genre changed, I wanted to make sure my mask was original to other real texts, so went to an arts and crafts shop and got this which was completely different to anything I had seen in a professional campaign.
Unlike most of the trailers I watched, my trailer only featured two characters. This was due to re-filming my trailer after the rough cut, and a change in my concept. Although I challenged a convention,
Within this shot, we can see a still fromThe Women In Black, where the protagonist is looking down from a window, and moments later the monstrous other appears behind his shoulder. Although this shot does not conform to the conventions of of a psychological horror, as a high angle shot would traditionally be used for a protagonist to suggest anxiety, I used it as the framing of the shot symbolises entrapment psychologically of the protagonist.
I decided to set the filming location in a home. It was easy to film in my own home and had complete freedom to use it in any way I liked. All of the trailers I analysed and deconstructed were either set, or had scenes without a house hold. This symbolises the invasion of the safe zone, and therefore creating an anxio-genic atmosphere. In this way, I conformed with the conventions which would be expected, and due to the genre hybrid, the invasion of the home was important, especially to tune into the psychological element.
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