Research on a trailer

During our filming and editing, we watched various trailers to get some ideas of camera shots and angles we could use in our own trailer and how evaluated how effective they were. An example of a trailer we watched was Scream. We chose this trailer because our target audience are both males and females and teenagers. Scream has the same target audience therefore the conventions for this trailer will be aimed at our target audience.

We liked this tracking shot of the victim being chased by the killer because it is thrilling and makes the audience alert. We used this shot in our trailer and included a scene of the masked killer chasing its victim and stabbing her.

 

We found this establishing shot effective because it shows the setting of your trailer and by making the location look mysterious and dark adds to the fear of your trailer. We used this shot in our trailer at the beginning showing the location slowly and clearly.