I worked with Kayleigh for this piece of work.
The genre of the movie is shown with the use of the creepy music at the beginning, demonstrating a convention of horror. This music is emotive and in keeping with the genre. There is an establishing shot within the first scene of the trailer, which demonstrates they are in a hotel which does not look of a high class with bright, neon lit lighting and a building with simple square windows. The fact that the shot is filmed from behind the bushes/trees makes the audience feel tense and on edge, waiting for something to happen. This effect is a key convention of a horror trailer and makes the audience feel as if there is someone watching on from behind the trees. There is a creepy feeling within this shot as the camera tracks slowly across the hotel. Also the fact that it is filmed in the dark adds an even more secretive effect and builds suspense. The 'darkness' is typical horror convention and therefore the movie-makers have adopted this very easily made effect throughout the film, as it is set at night time.
In the second scene we are introduced to our main characters, two girls who are getting ready to go for a night out. We see their relationship as friends. After this, we find out that they are driving to a night club and the shot of the girls in the car seems to be a typical horror convention as we only see their faces with the darkness surrounding them. This gives a feeling of the girls being alone and what looks like lost. On their way, they find they have a puncture but however they find a house which they run to for help. Another typical horror convention within this scene of them running to this mystery house, is the rain falling heavily. This adds to the dark, eery effect as for example; if this film was shot in the daylight and the sun shining brightly, birds singing etc, the effect of the film would not be within the horror genre therefore ruining the dark, scary mood within the film. When the girls the house, a man comes to the door, looking through the window first and the audience see a very strange-looking man. From this point onwards, I myself as an audience member feel scared but also intrigued as to what is going to happen. However, this makes the audience of the film want to see and find out more. We feel obliged to go inside the house with the girls.
The strange man has a creepy voice and inside his house we see flickering lights, another key horror convention. Throughout the trailer, there are close up shots of the man face, where we never see him smile until the end, where the man 'quest' is to join these two girls and a man together, to form some sort of sick joke in this strange mans head - a human centipede. The last half of the trailer shows many key concepts of the horror genre with jump shots of the 3 victims screaming as they are being tortured. Inter-titles (typical trailer convention) tells us that he is a demented surgeon and the clothes that they are all wearing are dresses that you would find in a hospital. Hospital scenes are often demonstrated within horror films are are associated with a frightening and torturing appeal: we are scared but also excited at the same time, wanting to see more.
This horror trailer for The Human Centipede shows a sick, twisted and demented surgeon and with the shots, music and characters filmed, the audience watch this trailer wanting to know what exactly happens in the end. We wonder, will this man ever be caught or will he just carry on? This is something I want to adopt into my horror trailer.
Underground.
This horror trailer starts off differently to other key horror classics. We find ourselves in a club, a very busy party scene where people are having fun enjoying themselves. There are typical shots of sex scenes which is demonstrated a majority of the time in horror movies. The genre of the movie is something that we find out later on in the trailer where the party scene suddenly changes and the mood indicated becomes rather mysterious as these people are underground. There is a fight scene which is where the story or 'quest' section really begins. Gun shots are heard, which scares it's target audience. Terrified, we discover the central characters as they are running to escape and this is where they find themselves locked underground. Once again, darkness is captured and therefore creates the horror aspects of the movie. There is a dramatic number of jump shots used, which only captures a quick second of scenes in the film and this leaves the audience feeling unsatisfied, wanted to know what these scary shots are really about. This therefore entices the audience to wanting to see the whole film- a typical trailer convention.
We hear voices throughout the trailer, which sound terrified but also frustrated and angry. This being a horror convention which we find in many films with scared, desperate characters wanting to escape.
The actual location that is filmed and name of the film, is UNDERGROUND. Being trapped underground in itself is a frightening feeling and shots of metal stairs and bars demonstrate the surrounding that these characters face. The 'quest' to get out is most definitely hard, where the monsters reveal themselves, wanting to kill these poor innocent people. We are left thinking, what have they done to deserve this? However, this is a typical convention in the genre of horror.
Throughout this trailer, the audience feel scared as to how these characters are going to escape, and this being something I want to demonstrate in my horror trailer.
The Omen.
The Omen.
To begin with, the audience are introduced to the film by a man narrating a brief overview of the actual story. His voice is deep and booming, and is placed over eery, quiet music. This is typical of a horror trailer, as it foreshadows the up coming danger and panic about to be previewed to entice the audience into watching the whole movie. The audience are shown the two main innocent characters - Damien's adoptive parents, walking through the woods happily. This happiness is shown to be ruined by Damien as he screams and scratches his mother during a visit to the church and refuses to get out of the car. Although the audience are not made aware of the reasons behind this sudden attack, 'The Omen' title itself has religious connotations making one aware instantly that perhaps this child has negative connections with the church in some way. This makes the audience immediately interested in this unknown category of film, as in this day and age this was a rare topic to bring into the world of film.
Conventionally it falls into all the typical areas of horror - It contains religion, children and innocence being destroid, and this is all previewed in the trailer. The story, however, is not fully told which leaves the audience in suspence and wanting more. Although this trailer is dated it is a very iconic, popular film, and these clips show why there is still mention of it even today, as it contained very frightening ideas on the anti-christ and children turning evil.
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