The Strangers Trailer

The Strangers is the main film which we have based our 'Asylum' this because of the story line as the first part of the trailer shows it starts of very calm as a new married couple moves into their new home and they are planning a romantic night in as it cuts from the male character setting up a candle lit dinner and fades into the female character taking a bath with rose petals.  Then it cuts back to when he first proposed to her they mainly use slow transition fades to give it the romantic feel.  The suddenly the hole atmosphere of the trailer suddenly changes you can tell this because the music changes.  Then it informs the viewer that the film is based on a true event it then gives the feel that what happened in this film can happen and actually has happened in real life and this gives it the more dramatic feel to the trailer.  It starts to have title slides with text are to get the point across to the viewer, a very common convention is used they hear a noise outside so she looks outside and there is no one there just the sings moving in the wind, then the trailer starts to become darker the lighting decreases slightly, the intensity starts to increase it starts to build up when she goes and looks the door because she thinks something is going to happen, the most iconic part of this trailer is when the female protagonists is standing alone in the kitchen unaware of her surroundings then out of the darkness in the background a figure with a mask on appears this adds the horror to the trailer this is truly creepy and completely unexpected it also links back to the title of the film title “The Strangers” as in this person in the background is a stranger in their house, after this scene has happened the hole intensity of the trailer and also the music changes to more fast pace as in the heart is pumping quicker and due to this is where the “Villains” are introduced more in the trailer, suddenly the music cuts for a short silence this is effective because it leaves the viewer on the edge of their seat because they do not know what is about to happen, the quickly you here an old record player begins to play and it is a stuck record that keeps playing the same line and it gets faster as the events become more terrifying and deadly and as this happens the scenes get shorter and the trailer gets quicker so only the viewer gets quick snippets and not the whole thing because there would be no point watching the film then, towards the end it and at the end of most horror trailers it has a jump scare to truly freak the audience out however the strangers trailer have adapted this instead of a jump scare they have a slow scare were the last scene is a small girl with a mask on come out of the darkness this is just as effective as a jump scare because it adds again that creepy feeling to the film and because it is a child it also makes it scary.