Film Analysis of Cube

Cube is a low budget Canadian film made in 1997. This film is intertextual to saw and many suggest this film is where saw got the idea from. The plot is of a group of people who wake up in a cube that has a door In each side with joining rooms.
The opening scene is a close up of an eye opening, as if waking up. There is then an establishing shot which reveals the location which appears to be a cube. The man however continues on without caution to different room and gets sliced into piece. The title then comes up on the screen in a mathematical looking font which suggests some element of maths in the film.



you are then introduced to the rest of the character who wake up without a clue how they got there. They shortly discover they are trapped in a maze of cube shaped rooms with no food or water, this means they must escape before they run out of energy to carry on. They shortly discover with the death of the first character that some of the rooms are boobie trapped.

The film is extremely claustrophobic and traps both the character and the viewer in the cube for the whole duration of the movie. I feel the film engages the viewer perfectly by keeping them interested throughout the film by adding new developments to keep the viewer interested. But of course the 5 characters try to figure out why they are there and what the purpose of the cube is. Throughout the film you start to find out why each of the people may have been placed in the cube. For example the young girl is a maths genius so she was placed in the cube to figure out the numbers on each of the doors to solve the puzzle. There is also a doctor and a police man, the police man has a temper and by the end of the film becomes very dangerous which adds more drama to the story line. Another character is what seems to be an autistic guy who acts very odd, who up until the end seemingly serves no purpose. But he does in fact help an awful lot as he understands maths questions at an astronomical level of intelligence as many autistic people do find. And lastly there is the guy who somewhat helped make the cube but does not seem to know anything about why they are there, perhaps he is there to be punished for helping make it, or s it completely random afterall?

What I find most interesting about the film is how within these 5 random ‘strangers’ propps charector types come into play, as the risk of death heightens and they start to fend for their lives they all show there true selves. Much like the many sides to the cube there also seems to be many sides to the characters. Such as Quentin the police officer at first he seems to be strong, courageous and a born leader who seems to be helping the rest of them, but as the pressure builds he looses his temper and the audience begin the despise him and he become the villan. Here is a run down how I see it, of how propps charector types come into play.

Quentin becomes the villan because he is evil and kills the other ‘good’ characters. He does however fall at the end.

Leaven becomes the helper as she is good at maths so she is solving the equation in each room to get them out.
The princess could in fact act as the outside world; it is the goal that they are all aiming for.

The donor is worth as he offers information about the cube as he helped build it.

The hero turns out to be Kazan as he is the one who saves all the other character and gets them to the exit and he is also the only one who survives.

Quentin could also act as a false hero as he tries to be in charge o everyone and seem could when in fact he is only looking after himself.

The film mainly focuses on character development as the entire film is this set of characters in the cube finding a way out.

Some scenes become quite gripping as you start to gain a personal relationship with one of the characters making you want her to survive, as said by kats and blummers if you create a personal relationship/ identification with a character you are more likely to gain from the text as you will be rooting for this character to survive in this case.

In the end of the film the character that stayed calm and followed orders throughout survived meaning he passed the test. It truly was a test to work together as it was not a trick it was possible for every one of those people to survive.

Role of the Distributer

The role of the distribute is the advertise the film to the target audience by using advertising techniques such as trailers and posters. The distributor will then send there film to the cinemas and it will by there target audience if there advertising worked effectively. After the cinema release the distributer will design a dvd casing and send it to the shops. The distributor make there money dependant on how many copys of the dvd are sold and how many tickets to view the cinema are bought. some money also goes to the cinema, the shop the dvd is sold in and the men who drive the lorrys with the product to the stockists.

Narrative Theory of Spiderman

1. The villain — struggles against the hero - The Green Goblin
2. The dispatcher —character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off - May Parker
3. The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest - ?
4. The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain. - Mary Jane
5. Her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished. Mary Janes Father
6. The donor —prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object. - The spider that bites Peter Parker
7. The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess - Flash
8. False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess - Harry Osbourne

Key Conventions Of Horror Films

When thinking about key conventions of horror films you may first think of location, this could be: dark secluded areas such as woodlands, haunted houses, graveyards these locations are often shot at night time as a convention of many horrors are darkness as this can be quite scary.

Other conventions include a killer, but who is this killer? It could be: a ghost, a monster, a vampire, a werewolf, a serial killer, zombies, aliens or other scary things, these are all conventional things you would expect to find in a horror film.

Other typical conventions include blood, murder, guns, mystery of the killer for example hidden identitys, as well as eery music, jumpy scene, fast cutting and editing and special effects may also be used.

Film Magazines

In order to make my film magazine cover i had to look at various film magazines, this includes total film and Empire. I looked at how they lay out there magazine along with what content they have inside the magazine and how it is advertised on the front cover of the magazine. Film magazines are helpful in finding out new released as well as finding out all the latest gossip and what films are worth a watch. They could include film reviews as well of other movie related articles. Movie magzines are distributed to newsagents and supermarkets world wide reaching high circulations as they are popular amongst readers.

History Of Horror

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What's the difference between a teaser trailer and a theatrical trailer?

The difference of a teaser trailer and a theatrical trailer is generally a teaser trailer is much shorter and of course the main purpose is to tease. These are often released online quite a while before the release, they do not give any of the plot away and only give glimpses of what is to come. Wherase with a theatrical trailer it is shown just before the movie release and also shows a fair bit of detail into plot, they are often longer as well.

Analysis of Silence Of The Lambs Trailer

The trailer starts by showing you who the movie was made by, this is then interupted by a clashing sound and a flash of a close up shot of a flash we later discover is Hannibal Lector. To the audience at first this evokes curiosity because Hannibal has not yet been introduced. You can however tell by the sharp sound of the bang that this character may be bad.
You are then introduced to the female lead 'Starling'. The clash sound can then be identified as it is the sound of the closing gate in the prison. This sound has been related to Hannibal which could suggest imprisonment of his character, being trapped and not being able to escape.

Starling is then shown on the other side of the bars with the camera looking through, this is showing she is now on the same level as Hannibal Lector suggesting these two characters are working together.

A voice is then introduced which is that of someone telling Starling about the killer 'Bill', the audience are only shown a newspaper article at this point saying 'bill skins fifth' this tells the audience the nature of the serial killer, this also creates a separation between Lector and Bill making sure the audience is aware they are two different people. A further series of bangs are then played to accompany shots of what looks like a women, the shots are of lips, a necklace, and eye and a hand with the tattoo 'Love' on it. This makes the viewer confused because these clashes are previously associated with a killer but this appears to be a women? or is it... The mystery is then uncovered if you watch carefully on a shot later on it is the killler cutting open the shirt of a dead women, on his hand you can see the tattoo saying love, this seems quite ironic really.



At this point we are sure this is a man due to the hands looking quite masculine, this makes the viewer wonder what the shots of the lips and eyes with make up on could be about, perhaps a victim? This adds mystery to the storyline cause all is not clear in the trailer.

There is then a non diagetic sound, a voiceover that says she is going to have to match wits. After this is said there is a screaming sound also non diagetic and red smoke surrounding a flashing image of Clarices face followed by Hannibals. This could be a visual representation of the two of them 'matching wits'.

The view must not however underestimate Hannibal, the voice then calls him the darkest of minds, this is followed by shots of him in his prison cell looking creepy, these are intended to scare the audience and also make them curious why he is in the cell.

The viewer is then told he is a pyschopath, and a newspaper article reads that he is a killer. After this point the pace of editing picks up and some creepy suspenseful music comes on, the audience are then told that Lector is missing and arms, there is a series of shots of victims of Lectors giving us a glimpse of his escape.
We then see Clarice with a gun, we are unsure whether this is to attack Lector or Bill. There is another shot which us as a viewer can see that Clarice is unaware of, it is of a hand coming towards us. This builds suspense as we do not know if Clarice survives or not.

The final shots show Clarice with a gun about to shoot but then it is cut to a shot of lector saying 'Thank you' to Clarice. This makes the audience wonder what he is thanking her for? This opens up a lot of unanswered questions that can only be answered by watching the film.

Creepy music is played over the ending titles where the film name 'Silence of the lambs' appears, silence is in red which could signify that there is an emphasis on the silence, this could be an underlying theme of the movie perhaps? The actors names are then shown with a clash on each of them showing there importance. The names of the actors are shown because they are quite renowned actors. At the very end of the trailer there is a scream, but not a victims scream more of a evil growl, but whos?

Poster Analysis

This movie poster was chosen because of how interesting I found it.

The poster looks like the genre of the film would be an action film. This is signified by the guns in the hands of suited characters who look important and rich because of their costumes.

In the mise en scence there are the buildings and a road where they are standing but the road vertically curves upwards which could represent the physical bend of reality within the film. The road has been edited like on photoshop in post production.

The poster is interesting because it includes a road bending which is unusual and quite unexplained, it leaves the view unsure about what they would experience when watching the film as they have little idea what it could be about, this could encourage them to see the film.

Another unusual thing about this poster is that it is landscape when most of the time movie posters are portrait.

Inception is the name of the film which means the planting of the idea which also related back to the mind which is what the film is about. You know the film is about your mind because of the tagline which quotes "your mind is the scene of the crime", this also suggests a sub genre of crime and action.
The main colours in the poster are blue and red, these colours show the two main genres, red for action, blue is often associated with crime.
The text at the top says in spaced out lettering Leonardo Dicaprio, this is because he is a top celebrity which could attract an audience of fans of leonardo.

Poster Analysis

This poster is for the film Nightmare on Elm Street which belongs in the horror genre. It is a remake of an old film which is suggested by the quote 'welcome to your new nightmare' emphasis on the word 'new' - this is a remake of the first film.

The main image is of Freddy Krueger looking down with his hands overlapping each other, he is an iconic character in horror so he instantly recognised by his iconography of a blade for a finger, red striped jumper and hat along with his burnt skin.

Freddy's jumper is torn which connotes he is a rough character who is dangerous and scary.

Freddy is looking down with a mischievousness look which adds mystery to the new release because the target audience will be curious to see what the new actor looks like. He also has a smirk on his face which connotes he is up to no good and is also very evil. The hat is covering the top half of his face and the rest is quite dark in shadow which also adds to the mystery.

Red text has been used which looks like splatters which represents blood, this could insinuate someone has been killed.

The rule of thirds has been used here to divide the top 2 thirds as the image and the bottom third as the key information including the title and the date the film will be out.

Poster Analysis

The women has been photographed in a close up shot with a blue tint to the photograph. The blue tint makes the image look sinister along with the piercing red eyes. The red eyes connote some sort of danger or evil theme to the film - this could suggest it is a horror film. The main colours used in the poster are red/oranges as well as the blue tint, this could suggest that the film is not just a horror film it also has crime and phycological elements. Alot of cop/crime shows have a blue motif to them such as law and order. This is not a typical horror film, it is not your typical slasher which you can tell by the poster.

The women herself does not look evil as such because she does not look angry or frightening to the viewer cause you can tell the eyes were made red in post production. The women herself is the main character played by Jodie Foster who is a well renowned actress. Her face in the image is half dark and half light which could suggest two binary opposites of good and evil as well as criminals and the police, those of which could be apparent in the film.

The poster is quite simplistic as the mise en scene only includes a women and includes a death head hawk moth which if you know the book or film is the moth that is grown by the villan in the film. This moth is cleverly placed over the women's mouth the represent 'silencing' her. This links in well with the title, the colour of the text of the title is an orange colour which appears to be have picked from the colour of the moths wings. The moth seems to be added in post production on photoshop perhaps from a photograph of the real moth or digital graphics. The moth looks evil and signifys death as it has a skull on it which represents the horror genre. This suggests there could be a theme of death or murder within the film.

The tagline is telling the audience that the movie has been made from a 'terrifying' best seller. Again, telling the audience it is a horror film, it is also opening the market to those who have read the book by novelist Thomas Harris, this widens the target audience. By the looks of this poster the target audience is 16-25 years olds, much like most horror films, but because it is not a slasher it can be enjoyed by audiences over 25 years too.

Stereotypes of Women In Horror Films

A2 Media: Horror Genre Representation of Women Essay

I am going to discuss the roles and representations of female characters within the horror genre. I believe there are many sets of conventions that apply to the role of women in horror movies which have become established in the modern day to such an extent that any horror movie breaking these conventions is deemed controversial.

In media many women are looked at with a ‘male gaze’ this suggests the camera has a gender which is in fact male. This is a theory publicised by Laura Mulvey who had feminist views and felt that the objectification of women in the media is wrong. The example I am going to speak about that exemplifies this theory is the movie ‘House of Wax’ starring Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton was made famous by her sexualised appearance and became an iconic sex icon. Paris Hilton was used along with other attractive females in House of Wax to draws in a predominantly male audience whom enjoy watching females in compromising situations. Psychologically many males feel dominant if a woman is helpless or vulnerable in a movie therefore watching scenes of women in slashers’ strokes their ego and gives them a certain pleasure. There are many other examples of objectification of women in horrors as this in the media marketplace is what sells. This is however a very negative stereotype of ‘all women are dumb and need looking after by men’ which could put of females from viewing the film. The male camera represents women in this way using various camera techniques for example looking down on the women victims which connotes inferiority within the character, shots to enhance the appearance of the female characters body/figure can also be used, for example women may be skimpily dressed to excite the male viewer further.

Another theory that is a convention in horror films is the final girl theory. This is that the virtuous girl will always survive at the end of the film. This is used in many horror films such as Halloween. Girls shown engaging in sexual activity are often killed. At the beginning of Halloween the women is having sexual relations with her boyfriend and they are then both killed. This suggests a Christian ideology that if you have sex before marriage you’re not virtuous and therefore punished by being murdered. However Laurie, the girl who is she and not really to interested in boys survives to the very end of the film. All of her friends who were persuading her to ask out a boy all get killed due to their behaviour. The final girl is not only used in Halloween it is a theory widely used by many other horror films such as scream, the Texas chainsaw massacre, nightmare on elm street and Friday 13^th.

Other horror films including Alfred Hitchcock films such as Psycho include very blatant stereotypes of women. The actress that played the pretty blonde women in Psycho was called Janet Leigh. Alfred Hitchcock was well known for having a preference in blonde women, this means the main female roles in his film where quite frequently blonde. Alfred states that the audience would be more suspicious of a brunette. This derived from his very first black and white films which Alfred felt blondes look better on a black and white film. In general blondes are represented to be much more desirable than other women with other hair colours. Blonde hair often connotes purity, or being angelic. This is because of the contrast between dark and light meaning brown and black haired women are more associated with mystery and a darkness. However in the media today women in general are sexualised to great measures as a marketing tool to get people to watch a movie.

Blonde women are also desired because of the stereotype of the ‘dumb blonde’ men like blondes when they act dumb because it makes them feel clever and inferior, this puts them a notch above the women and satisfies there desire to look after a women. This is because the old fashioned man does not like women in power and would much rather them be a house wife looked after by the male. Men feel empowered by women acting in this way, meaning watching damsels in distress in horror films makes the audience film sorry for them and want them to survive. Having this connection to a character makes the whole viewing experience more upsetting if the character where to die.

Film Review For Return to Oz

Film Review For ‘Return to OZ’

Return to Oz is a film that was designed as a sequel to the Wizard of Oz, it was substantially more scary than the first instalment.

Looking at the mise en scene in the beginning half of the film makes it very clear how alot of the elements later onin the film came

The film is trying to portray the idea that there is nothing wrong with imagination and that crazy things can happen in your mind that parents simply do not understand. the film also represents how imaginative you can be as a child which is later lost when you grow up. about. We learn that Oz is in fact a figment of Dorothy’s imagination but this time ultimately more frightful. In both movies there has been a fine line between distinguishing what it reality and what is Dorothy’s fantasy. In the first film the viewers took the journey with Dorothy and were made to believe that this world of Oz was real. In the second film the viewer was taken into a new layer of the film when watch carefully you are shown that in fact the world of Oz is a fantasy land derived from experiences and different images she took in before her accident.

When watching the film carefully and taking in all the minor details of the mise en scene a clear connection can be made for most things that are apparent in the film proving that oz is all made up.

The narrative begins with Dorothy being taken to shock therapy because Aunt Em does not believe her that she took an adventure to oz and that she will be fixed with shock therapy making her ‘dreams’ go away. This shows how civilization was in the 1900’s because children where deemed as crazy if they were found to be too imaginative, the imagination was an idea that was at that time not thoroughly explored. Dorothy does however show quite odd behaviour, seeing girls in mirror reflections and thinking chickens can talk?

The point is that that Is an ambiguity to what we choose the believe like for example the key that Dorothy finds on the farm which she believes is a key to oz.

You could choose to believe that the key is just a normal key OR you could choose to believe that key says OZ.

The first sign that Dorothy’s trip to oz is conjured up from her everyday life is the main characters, firstly the doctor who will be performing the shock therapy.

Dorothy is obviously frightened by this man because he is wishing to perform a treatment that she is unfamiliar with and probably quite scared of. Due to this fear the doctor obviously becomes the villain in her imagination, The Gnome King.

Note the resemblance between the two faces they are undoubtedly being played by the same actor. They also both have the same wooden smoking pipe; the smoking pipe could connote him as a gentleman of age and upper class and importance because in them days you were deemed very important to be smoking a pipe as it was more for upper class men rather than working class.

This is the man who took over Oz after Dorothy left for the first time Dorothy sees the doctor as the man in charge so it is easy to see how he is translated into the ruler in the Land of Oz

A connection can be made, much like the doctor is trying to destroy Dorothy’s mind the Gnome king is trying to destroy Oz which is essentially Dorothy’s imagination.

Next is Nurse Wilson who also translates into an evil character in oz. In the hospital the nurse is essentially a minion to the doctor who is also the case in oz. Nurse Wilson has pointy shoulders and stone cold looks which could connote evil as this is such costume worn by a villain. She also always carries a key attached to her at all times.

Nurse Wilson is in fact evil princess Mambi in oz who also keeps a key on her at all times in order to unlock her many cabinets of heads. However her original head is that of Nurse Wilson.

Next is the wheelers which is obviously derived from a greater fear of Dorothy’s because they are translated both from physical memory and from sound. The wheelers are taken from the men who wheel round the gurneys in the hospital; the noise that is made from the wheelers is the same as the noise from the gurneys squeaking wheels in the hospital. Not only do they sound the same they also slightly look the same. This sound must have haunted dorothy so it is no wonder it comes back to scare her in the land of oz, the wheelers are also arguably the scariest part of the film.

They are pale and creepy looking men in the hospital who wear 1900 scrubs which are extremely long at the back and kind of look like strait jackets which could connote insanity, the wheelers do have quite insane personalities also. There extremely long coats perfectly resemble the orderlies in the real world.

The wheeler basically resembles what a cross between a gurney and a man would look like, he also has the same face as the man in the hospital.

Next are the characters that have become Dorothy’s friends in oz, firstly the electroshock therapy machine.

The doctor points out in the movie that the machine has a face in order to show her that it is not a scary machine at all. The machine must also be wound up much like her friend in the land of oz, the ticking noise both machines make is also identical.

Here is tick tock who is obviously a mimic of the electro shock therapy machine who comes with specific gears that require him to be wound up like the real version.

Also in the hospital Dorothy meets a young girl with blonde hair who we can only assume is another patient from the hospital.

We are never told who she is or whether she is a figment of Dorothy’s imagination or not but she runs around barefoot which could connote freedom and being at one with nature. The girl tells Dorothy about the “damaged” patients screaming in the basement and tells Dorothy to escape. Dorothy is kept afloat by a crate in the river which supposedly takes them to oz.

At the end of the film the same young girl is made new ruler of Oz. There Is a scene were Dorothy wishes she could be at home and in oz a the same time which is where this girl comes through the mirror. This poses the question whether she is Dorothy for the Land of Oz, so that someone can be in charge of course. This is suggested by the many times that Dorothy and this girl are shown as each other’s reflections.

We have however met this girl again before names ‘Ozma’ – which I believe stands of mother of oz. This is when she brings in a pumpkin in celebration of the upcoming Halloween holiday.

Of course Dorothy has remembered this and the jack-o-lantern gets transformed into the poor mans version of a scarecrow, Jack pumpkinhead.

I feel Ozma stands for mother of Oz because Jack speaks fondly of his mother who we later on find out is Ozma. This makes sense in the real world because Ozma brought the pumpkin to Dorothy in the first place.

Finally Gump, the deer head - which is shown over the shoulder of Nurse Wilson in one scene at the beginning of the film.

The deer head becomes the perfect inspiration for Dorothy’s flying couch called Gump.

That is all the friends and enemies that had taken inspiration from the real world and became features in Dorothy’s imagination but there are also a few more connections that I found interesting upon viewing.

Firstly the lunch pail which Aunt Em left for Dorothy at the hospital which the evil nurse says isn’t necessary. It is a possibility that the reason Dorothy conjured up a lunch pail tree in Oz is because she was promised food she never got and perhaps was quite hungry.

There are many more points of interest including the green leafy plants in the asylum which perfectly mirror those in Mambis room which get turned into wings for the flying machine. Also the couch in the asylum is exactly the same in oz which again is used for the flying apparatus used to escape Mambis castle - finally the trinkets which are on the desk at the beginning which correspond to the trinkets I the room where they are trying to find the scarecrow. These are the parts of the mise en scene which I found most interesting, I'm sure there are more the closer you look into the film. This shows how nothing in the mise en scene is done by accident and how a film is graphed to connote specific meanings, If the mise en scene where changed in any such way these meanings could have completely different representations.

Another interesting connection is that when staying in the hospital Dorothy’s room number is number 31. Much like princess Mambis head cabinets, because the princess has 30 different heads her original head number must be 31, therefore where does her original head stay?

When Oz returns to normal Princess Mambi is lead of in a large cage through the Emerald City. She is again shown in the real world in a jail cage at the end of the film when Dorothy regains consciousness and finds out that the asylum burnt down. This part does not make complete sense as it doesn’t stick the recurring theme of the rest of the film. This part suggests that Dorothy is looking into the future? As the incident in the Land of Oz happened before it did in the real world...

I think the film maker may have done this to confuse the audience after watching the whole film and deciding whether to believe in oz or not and then having the idea flipped on its head as this is thrown into the mix?

Maybe the audience isn’t supposed to know the 100% truth of whether oz is real or just a dream.

Analysis of Shrooms Trailer

I am choosing to analyse the trailer for Shrooms because it is Intertexual to the trailer I am
going to create.
The beginning of the trailer starts with an introduction of the characters in a conversational style. There is little sound at this point only the diagetic sound of the chara
cters talking. The beginning of the trailer sets up the narrative to the viewer that the characters are meeting up to take some shrooms in the woodland. The
characters are aged around 20 meaning the target audience for the film would be 16-24 which is typical of most horror films.
The first sign that something could go wrong is the shots of the characters in the woods where one of them is telling a story. This engages the viewer as the story is being told to them just as much as those characters in

the film.

Then there is the first introduction of titles. The titles are over layed onto a tracking shot of the woods; this is also an establishing shot showing the location. This story accompanied by the titles suggests that these woods have something wrong with them. The guy seems to be saying a

premonition rather than a tale of past events, because little does he know w

hat he is saying could become there reality. One of the characters then jumps and scares another character in turn scaring the audience and putting them out of ease. This is the first sign of a

disruption in the narrative.

There is then a nice overhead shot of the characters exploring the woods, an effect has been put onto the shot to make the people appear to be moving fast, this has been done to make it look trippy to mimic a shrooms trip. There is a voiceover this shot to establish the narrative, the

h will essentially make you trip out. protagonist explains that the purpose of the trip to to take some shrooms whic

There is then another shot used to insinuate a trip. This is done for the viewer to understand what the characters are experiencing. This shot is a close up shot made to look like double vision which is typical of a psychedelic drug trip. This is done perhaps for those who do not understand what a trip looks like to the characters. This also helps the audience identify with the characters because they feel like they are experiencing the same thing. This shot also has a voice over it saying ‘shrooms are just incredible’ this voice is distorted with an echo which is also something which could e typical to a shrooms trip.

The non diagetic music now takes a change and become creepy in a minor key, this is where the trailer takes a turn because the first sign of any disturbance is shown. A girl is them shown to have sex and is then flashed into negative which could mean that she is likely

to die because she is not virtuous. Shortly after this encounter the girl says ‘there is someone there’ which is a clue to the audience that something is about to happen and the drugs could take a turn for the worst.
At this point in the trailer to music is eery and sounds creepy it also builds up suspense in the narrative because the music is quite tense. It almost sounds like wind blowing which connotes a silence in the dark which could spook the audience giving them the impression that someone is there but not making a sound meaning they could be anywhere.
The trailer then poses the question of what is real and what is not, this is a question a

sked by the blonde main girl. This girl is represented as a good girl who is always a little uneasy about taking the drugs. The trailer shows how when you do not stick to your morals bad things happen to you. For example if you take drugs you will suffer the consequences.

The pace of editing and music is then sped up and a soundtrack is added to the trailer

to add to the action of it all. There is at this point a montage of shot of the characters trying to defend themselves with weapons they have found.

One of the final shots is of an empty car and the camera zooms into it slowly, a hooded figure then jumps out screaming at the camera this shocks and scares the audience which re affirms our thoughts that it belongs to the horror genre. This is quite a conventional method of making the audience frightened, suspenseful hold a slowly moving shot accompanied by tense music then immediately bring something onto the screen with a loud burst of the soundtrack. I shall try to incorporate this method into my trailer.

There is then a noise that brings the soundtrack to a stop allowing dialogue, the girl says that she wishes she hadn’t taken the shrooms. This could suggest to the view that they may be having a bad trip and this leaves the audience confused what is real and what is not, ultimately making them want to view the film to see what is coming after the characters.

Over this close up shot is a heartbeat which was added upon post production. This heartbeat could suggest the characters are experiencing a fair bit of adrenaline making their heart beat faster. It also adds a sense of realism to the trailer.

The rest of the trailer includes running shots which are conventional of horror trailers and also heavy breathing from the characters. This editing is of a faster pace and is evoking t

ension in the audience to whether they will get away or not.

The music at this point has became alot more bassy and has a fast bass line which sounds like the banging of running feet and almost mimics these footprints perfectly.
But of course a cliff hanger is left meaning you will have to watch the film to find out what happens. At the end of the trailer there is a pan shot where we briefly see what we believe to be the killer in the trailer. The pan shot is almost like a spin which could insinuate the state of the girls head ‘spinning’ meaning nothing is clear or stable in her mind. We also have another heartbeat but this time starting of slow and getting faster showing the adrenaline speeding up the girl’s heart. This represents she s scared because when you are scared your heart beats faster. This shot creates suspense because it is a reaction shot of what she is seeing which is later clear to the audience when the 'killer' is exposed.

The final shot is of the girl running from the supposed killer; she is almost looking to camera which could make a connection between the viewer and the lead girl.

This shot is the last shot and it has a skull edited over the girl’s face which could suggest that she is going to die.
In conclusion the trailer sticks to all the main conventions of a horror trailer including fast paced editing, spooky fast bassy music, association with the characters through close up shots as well as a setting up of the narrative using voiceover and titles. All these key media techniques a

re used to create an affective piece of advertising.