Horror Trailer Analysis
Name of film: Sinister Year released: 2012
Genre of trailer: Horror Your Mark: 8/10
The trailer starts off by telling you that there has been a murder in this house just to give the audience an idea of why strange things are going to happen. It shows a happy family moving into the house where the murders were; things start to change when the dad finds a camera and a few home videos from the old owners of the house. The films show images of a weird creature that abducts children known as ‘Bughuul’.
This trailer shows all aspects of a good trailer as it doesn’t give you too much about the film but it gives you enough to make you want to watch it. It has a good soundtrack when creepy things start happening and then it builds up when the film has more action in it. I think it has good pacing as it goes from slow to fast then back to slow to keep building suspense and the camera movement is quick. There is a jump at the end which grabs the attention of the viewer making them want to go see the film even more just to find out what this creature is. What we could take from this and use in our trailer is there use of music because our horror trailer is going to have some action so using the sinister trailers idea of starting off with slow music then building it up would work well in our trailer.
A bad point from the trailer would be that I don’t think it focuses enough on the children even though the creature abducts them instead it focuses more on the dad and you don’t really get to see any of the other characters. In our horror trailer we will mainly focus on the main character Keith as that is the name of the film and mainly what it’s about but in sinister I think that they could have done it better by showing more of the other characters in the film.
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