Deconstruction of Teaser Trailer Mutants (Kurt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEw_qaFCk94


Mutants

It starts off at a fast pace, with the colours representing the climate temperature, in a very cold place, with most of the colours white and blue to reflect on perhaps isolation. It flashes briefly on the eye of someone, not showing the identity of this person but only an eye, common in most horror movie trailers, as this is what draws the audience in with the use of a hidden someone’s perspective. It helps to create the tension. Long shots of the scenery are shown pacing the drama so the trailer makes you aware of what type of place the film is going to be situated in, whilst there are cuts to the eye again to carry on the tension. The screen goes black after an over the shoulder shot what watches two people in a car. This does this for a significant reason as straight after there is a clip of the type of horror we are dealing with ,a human being gone crazy like a zombie. It’s effective in making the audience jump. There is a scene which just focuses on the legs, again hiding the person, so therefore making it more edgy as the feet carry forward without the revelation of a body or features on a face to see who it is. Mutants flickers at the end, giving the image of electricity flickering, and how darkness could be in the film perhaps because of no electric. The use of diagetic sounds are used to create chaos and confusion. Then silence is used to thicken tension, with a scream to startle the audience. All the way through the trailer there is a electronic faulty noise that is used to perhaps create alienation. There is a non diagetic background score which is sinister and piercing that is used to build up moments to where someone screams or crys, then it rushes into a faster sound score. The use of diagetic sound in the clip where the hand wipes blood across the screen of glass gives an eerie taste of horror for the audience. This is a good trailer, because although it doesn’t give away the puzzle, and uses Barthes code, it keeps the audience hooked and enthralled by slices of action, pauses of silence and screams and cries that help create a dark mood for the film. Varied clips are used such as close ups, long shots, medium shots, and over the shoulder shots, so that there is a variation in the trailer as a whole.