Friday, 19 December 2014

Psychological thriller trailer deconstructions

Asylum is a psychological thriller about a woman who falls in love with one of the inmates at a mental asylum in the 1950's. At the beginning of the trailer the pace is slower and there is quite a lot of colour used in the shots. The intensity of the non-diegetic sound also intensifies which builds suspense, this is quite effective, at the same time the pace of the shots gets faster to fit in with the music.  From this trailer the aspects that are most effective which we would want to use is the increase in the pace of the shots and the suspenseful music specifically the booms which are used towards the end of the trailer. Because of the setting of our film: in London we don't there to be too much colour in our trailer. We also want to include a psychologically disturbed antagonist in our narrative.



The black dahlia is a psychological thriller about a killers whose infamy consumes a whole town in the 1940's. There is quite a warm atmosphere in the and there is a lack of colour in the film. The police are heavily featured in the film. This is not very practical for us as it would involve a lot of actors who are middle aged which would be quite hard to source.  The narrative being told by a voice over is very effective and and we are going to use as a news report in our teaser trailer, we think that this is the most effective way for the audience to understand the narrative without using dialogue. In this teaser trailer the diegetic sound is quite slow paced which works quite well in this trailer but we want to build more suspense so the diegetic sound will get louder towards the end of the trailer to fit in well with dramatic footage. We would also like to take inspiration from the extreme close up used in the trailer as it creates a sense of mystery.



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