Trailer Analysis (Murders In Shadows)

These trailers have been selected for an analysis due to low key lighting used to build up more suspense towards the death scenes.

Don't be afraid of the dark

This trailer engages audiences by building suspense using a variety of long scenes to have the audience waiting, unexpected to what will happen. Low key lighting is used in this trailer, to hide the villains identity, and to provide a more scary atmosphere. The one key scene is were a character is seen holding a flash light, which is her only prop in the scene and only source of light, which works successful and creates suspense as we rely purely on her flash light to secure image of the source of evil. This trailer also uses, big bold fonts to introduce each scene which builds more suspense as we as an audience, must now wait to what the trailer is going to show us about 'fear' or about 'darkness'.       

The Massacre In Woodland Heights 

This trailers murderer/villain also relied on low key lighting, to make the demonic villain look scarier. timing was also used to build suspense as their was at least a 5-7 second gap for the next scene to fully commence. I definitely believe that slow murderers, are the most effective because it will require the audience to pay more attention, and focus more carefully. towards the end of the trailer there was a scene which we will use in  are trailer which is when the murderer comes behind the character in the car and slashed their neck but cuts the scene to make the illusion of them being attacked, and because it was dark it made it even harder to examine the distorted scene, because the lights will be out and we will only be relying on a secondary source of light for the murderess we hope to achieve this effect.    

MARK