After fully analysing several horror film trailers, we decided to look at some more unusual film trailers to look for inspiration for our own trailer.
The first trailer that we looked at was for the 2008 Swedish film 'Let The Right One In' (which was later remade for an Amer audience starring Chloe Grace Moretz in 2011). Filmed in Sweden, the film is set in the winter, which means that harsh white and blue tones are prevalent throughout. The coldness of the tones are linked with the horror genre (obviously the polar opposite to the warm tones you may get in a comedy or romance). With the main characters of 'Let The Right One In' being children, it helped us to get an idea of how to portray our child ghost in our trailer. As well as this, the fact that the film is Swedish meant that the international trailer did not have much dialogue in it. Our trailer has one main character, and almost pushes the normal conventions of a film trailer, in that she will have no one to interact with. The use of sound in this trailer is important, and therefore, we will have to carefully think about the use if sound in our trailer. Also, the last 20 seconds of this trailer is a single shot of snow falling. This scene is literally and figuratively chilling, with a shrill echo playing as the snow is falling. The use of text over it is effective, and it is a very effective way to end the trailer, from the crescendo of the music beforehand. The contrast of the red of the title against the black and white of this last shot is very eye catching, and this scene has given us many ideas for our own trailer.
Another trailer which caught our eye was the 1980 trailer for Stanley Kubrick's film 'The Shining'. The rising credits alongside the loudening, creepy music with the still frame of the elevator builds a lot of tension, and the flood of red 'blood' (at 0:55) is a very effective way to insinuate death, without showing a dead body. This teaser trailer is quite clever, and we may use this as inspiration for part of our trailer.
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