The trailer starts off with five characters who are excited
to go on a trip. All characters can be linked to stereotypes such as the blonde
woman, in many horrors or thrillers the blonde one is normally the dumb one as
a stereotype, in this trailer the character comes across as a 'tart' as she
seems to be around a male character all the time and her body language is
different around them. Another character within the trailer is the male with
glasses has a bit of attitude but also can be classed as the smart one within
the group because of the stereotype look as he wearing big black glasses.
Another female character within the film is known as the innocent character as
she doesn't seem to socialize with the group that much. Finally the last male
character comes across as a strong muscular man and could also come across as a
'ladies’ man' as he is always standing by one of the female characters.
At the start of the trailer you have a happy or cheerful
mood to due the parallel sound of music in the background which changes
throughout the trailer which then creates a different mood and also in
different situations throughout the trailer. At the start of the trailer you
have incidental music with also clips of their friends starting out on a trip
in there camper-van. The timbre of the parallel sound is smoothing of which
gives you the mood of the group, with the music playing and the clips of them setting
off, it gives the audience a sense of felling that everything is okay or jolly.
The music then changes to a more mysterious sound as the music is very slow but
with sharp and quick high pitch sounds which makes the mood a bit dull and
gives you a sense of danger. This may connotes to the audience that the mood is
changing and something dangerous is heading there way. This type of music is
what you would expect from a thriller genre, although the genre of the trailer
is thriller it also has a sub-genre of horror which you would expect death
which may be linked to the sense of danger, thrillers are normally violent and
out the ordinary.
Within the trailer are in different colours of lighting in
different settings. The further they travel as they are going in different
environments, the darker it is in scenes which signify to the audience the
passage of time has progressed as the trailer has gone on.
One of the scenes in the trailer (0.49) you have the male
character with attitude notices a mirror with his friend on the other side.
This suggests to the audience that the environment they are in is very odd as
you don't expect to have a mirror like this which is out the ordinary and may
also suggest to the audience that the cabin carries secrets of which the characters
are not oblivious to.
Throughout the trailer you have the titles, the titles are
coloured yellow from the start, when the group of friends set off and get to
derelict places such as the gas station, the titles of the trailer got to a
different colour of red which signifies to the audience that danger is
approaching and also death, this also makes it obvious to the audience as when
the colour of the title is changing colour gradually, things start to go wrong.
At one part of the trailer you have four of them who seem to
be trapped, the muscular character says that we should stick together. A couple
seconds later you have a close up of his face which seems to have an edited
effect which makes his face fuzzy, he says to the group again 'we should split
up'. His opinion has change very quickly. This connotes to the audience that
the characters are being controlled or handled within the cabin but without
them knowing about it. This is where it gives you a taste of the thriller genre
as it’s a mystery of who is controlling them. Throughout the trailer you have
different settings such as the gas station and the woods. These are places that
are derelict which you would find in horror or thriller genres.
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