Horror film trailers analysis

We chose 'The Women in Black' trailer because we believe it has a similar story-line too our movie; therefore this will be a good trailer to get inspiration from. We especially liked the fact that in between shots there was a blank screen with some sort of writing on. We will most likely be using something similar to this in our own trailer.

Within the first 26 seconds of the film we see the first character’s death, which we know, is the catalyst for the occurrences of the rest of the film. This allows the trailer to gain the audiences attention and is also a way to set up the plot for the rest of the film. The fact that they installed the fear into the audience this early in the trailer makes the audience engaged in what they are watching, curious as to what the mystery of the film is. We also see a door opening by itself; this emphasis the 'fear factor'. This is shown in the first 13 seconds of the trailer and shows us that they are trying to evoke fear early on in the trailer.