Trailer Review: 30 Days Of Night

The trailer begins with intertitles and a slow montage building up tension. The intertitles introduce the audience to the narrative of the film, but the scenes being shown are the characters going about their day to day life. The trailer then picks up, parallel music is introduced in combination with a short quick montage of clips to introduce the vampires and a small amount of gore into the trailer. Once some gore is shown, the trailer uses a collision cut back to a slow montage, where tension begins to build again, through clever shots revealing vampires lurking in the village, and the character’s speech telling the narrative instead of intertitles. A scene is shown where a woman is alone by herself in the middle of the city, isolated from everybody else and calling out for help. Contrapuntal music kicks in along with a quick montage of gore and vampire attacks, creating a panic stricken feel to the trailer. The trailer finishes on a scene of a woman screaming whilst being bitten by a vampire, which then cuts to a title screen with the name of the film. Overall I think that the trailer works very well, as it is almost entirely set in low key lighting, giving the trailer a very dark and gloomy feel. There is plenty of gore, and the quick montages are done very well, giving off a strong sense of panic in the village. 

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Trailer Review: Cloverfield (2008)

The trailer for Cloverfield is a ‘scene’ trailer. It begins with a party happening; everything appears to be running smoothly with the characters completely oblivious to what is to come. Every shot is filmed with a handheld camera, which gives a realistic feel to scenes. Once the lights go out in the room that the party is being held, the lighting changes to low key lighting, indicating a change in the mood of the film, with panic being spread throughout the characters. Once the characters are outside, the handheld camera looks around, and sees a huge ball of fire coming from the top of a group of buildings, causing major panic in everybody. As people start to run, the shots become quicker cut into a fast montage, creating a tense, panic-stricken feel, and enables the viewer to connect with the character’s emotions. The trailer finishes with the head of the Statue of Liberty flying towards the group of people, an iconic symbol of America being destroyed, which is put into the film to cause a reaction from American viewers. The trailer ends on a cliff-hanger, as the trailer doesn’t show what causes the explosions, or what happens to the characters after this scene, which entices the viewer to go and watch the full film. The ending titles of the trailer have a distorted effect added to them, which goes with the feel of a handheld camera. The handheld camera gives a realistic feel to the trailer, as the shots are from somebodies point of view, giving the viewer more of a sense that they are actually there, resulting in them feeling the character’s emotions and getting more involved in the film.