Research and Planning: Analysis of Teaser Trailer 2

Media Language

• This teaser trailer starts with a few images of dark, dull, long shots of worn down buildings. All of a sudden, you hear breathing, and a slight echoey, underground-like sound. A person comes running out from the right side, and the camera cuts sharply to many different shots and angles of the dark outline of the character; mid shots, long shots, eyeline and low angles.
• Then a car comes up behind the man, as he is looking back, and they are getting closer and closer. He runs to one of the buildings that we saw pictured at the beginning, and the men in the cars quickly exit their vehicles and chase after him; however, he must of locked the doors as they can't get into the building.
• We see fast pace camera movent and shots, of all the characters' facial expressions, all with low key lighting, which is almost hard to figure out what is happening on screen.
• In contrast to all the fast pace, we then see a shot of a male character lighting what looks like a big fire ball, maybe even in slightly slow motion. This is the first bit of light we see and it is very bright, which suggests it is getting interesting.
• The sound becomes louder as we hear smashing and shouting.
• As we are about half way through the trailer, there are subtitles for the film, 'From Producer Michael Bay'. This is in red font and a black background, which shows exactly what genre the film is -Horror.
• There is a non diagetic sound after this clip, of a gun shot. The sound then replicates after each scene that follows. I think this adds effect and shows the continuity on the film. Within this, is a woman telling a story of a reoccuriung dream she is having, with images popping up to go with this.
• We then see a wipe, and there is 'Elm St' pictured on what looks like a street sign. There is non diagetic music at this point of child-like music, which we also heard in my first teaser trailer i analysed. As this is playing, we see shots of the street with only light from a street lamp and an image of a distant house. We then see the house closer up, with inludes shadows, making it look scary. We then see a scene with thousands of candles lit on the floor.
• There are many other images fading in and out, of different things, juts hints of what is in the film, to get the tension from the audience built up, for them to want to watch it and be wondering what is going to happen. There are close ups and mid shots to show the expressions. There are tracks,
• One clip is where a male says, 'Don't fall asleep'. We then see a scene of a girl in her bed and someone trying to get her to wake up.