SMILEY
2012
In the
trailer for the film smiley it keeps to many of the key things you would expect
in a horror film trailer; low key sound with dramatic sounds of girls screaming
over it, fast paced cutting of a montage of clips. In the whole clip it shows
the ‘baddy’ but does not reveal a whole lot about the film so it keeps you
interested in watching the film and to do so you would need to know what it is
called so they show the title of the film right at the end so that you see all
of the clip and don’t miss any key bits that would attract you to want to watch
the film. In this trailer it has similar narrative structure to the film for
example it will make you feel safe and nothing else jumpy will happen then Bam!
At the end it gives you more scares with a scream this makes you know that the
film is going to be jumpy throughout as soon as the signifier has been
released.
Muse-en-scene is vital in a trailer because they have just a few minutes to draw you into the
film and make you want to watch it but in most trailer its starts off with an
equilibrium so it would be nice and calm and normal to start with then break it
with something; usually the signifier, but in ‘Smiley’ it doesn’t start with
this calm beginning like a lot of trailers, it starts off with a girl in the police station reporting the
crimes of the ‘baddy’ which in the trailer the policemen doesn’t believe her so
automatically you get the feel that she is alone without help from higher
authority, but as the clip goes on you see that she is in it with a group of
teens who are sharing the grief of this ‘Smiley’. You see ‘Smiley’ in the clip
and you see how he kills people, and whenever he is shown he is shown in dark
dirty places which you would associate with evil and feel most scared.
Editing is
also very important in Horror trailers because simply you need to fit a lot of
clips into a small amount of time, and do it in such a way that after watching
a few minutes off a clip it would make you want to pay too watch the whole
film. In ‘Smiley’ the clips are not in order as they would be in the film but
this puts you straight into the middle of the film because that is where it
becomes more interesting and then it doesn’t give too much of the film away but
still shows you a good montage of clips to indulge you into the film. The pace
of the clips is very quick and there is over 100 cuts in the space of 2minutes,
from that you can clearly see just how quick paced the trailer is.
There are
loads of ‘over the shoulder’ shots to make you feel like you are in the position
of the actor and is more affective in scaring the audience, there also is a lot
of close ups which shows the emotion of the characters and helps you feel what
they are feeling throughout their ordeal in the film.
These are some of the codes and conventions in the technical code of a horror movie trailer.
These are some of the codes and conventions in the technical code of a horror movie trailer.
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