Influences

For our trailer we have finally concluded that we will be making a teaser trailer of the genre; horror/thriller. After researching this genre we discovered various trailers which displayed this theme well and therefore influenced our ideas. 


Influence as a genre:

Below is a teaser trailer promoting 'Paranormal Activity 2'. This relates to our theme as the storyline is reasonably similar to ours involving dark spirits and children. Its dark storyline and the way it's genre is shown has helped our initial thoughts develop in how we wish to present our teaser trailer. Therefore we thought this teaser trailer represents it's genre well. 

Influence as a structure: 

As audience members viewing this trailer for the first time we found it very enjoyable and successful. This is why we believe it could be influential for us when editing our teaser trailer.  Its structure is very fast and dynamic flicking between clips. However, there are repeated clips shown throughout adding to the suspense and thrilling atmosphere it created, not showing too much of its storyline. Furthermore, music plays a large part in this trailer becoming more distorted and louder towards the end making the viewer feel discomfort. Large titles were used adding to the style of the film making it clear to the audience its effect on viewers and were placed between short clips to add to it’s impact. 

Influences as micro aspects (sound, costume, shots):

We thought that 'The Children' would be an ideal influential trailer as they use juxtaposition with the sound; for example, in the beginning sequence, there is upbeat and joyful Christmas music and it fades out into a stereotypical child's music box whilst there are clips of violence.
The way that the children are dressed in this trailer is similar to our idea of how we would like to cast our members, due to their age. 





We have print screened some shots that we felt were eye catching and suited our idea well. We decided we liked this shot as we believe it could be used when the ghost child is watching the student sleep. In this image it represents it for the same purpose similarly to 'The Orphan's' shot: 

'The Children'

'The Orphan'

'The Omen' is also influential as this teaser trailer also helps us give the ideas of costume, mise en scene, shot (rule of thirds), sound and shows the clear genre. We think because of the lack of dynamic it gives a creepy feel mixing child innocence and thriller through these aspects. We particularly like the fact that the child is on a swing which creates an eerie sound, the costume being children clothing and the lighting being dim but not completely dark so can focus directly on the child with direct address creating suspense. 

This idea is similar to 'The Orphan' with the idea of suspense and child innocence: