Introduction

Length – the length of our trailer is 55 secs which is typical of a teaser trailer because teaser trailers only give a little information.

Empire Magazine Cover Poster

Teaser Trailer

Title

Gold – Connotes thriller because the gold colour represents money which is a common motive to commit crimes in thriller films.

The title – “UNMASKED” Represents the battle between good and evil, where good is trying to solve a crime and unmask the criminals. This connotes thriller because of the criminal element within the trailer.

The font – Is New Times Roman which gives a harsh feel to the trailer. This connotes the criminals lack of empathy, which is typical in a thriller film.

Background – the black background represents the darkness of the plot and the death represented in the trailer. This connotes thriller because usually thriller films revolve around darkness and death.

Setting/LocationThe house – victims house represent the murder scene and the robbery that happens later in the trailer. This house is seen as the main element in the thriller trailer.

The crime scene tape – this symbolises that a crime has been committed which is typical for a thriller because thriller plots are based around crime/crimes.

The body – represents that a murder has happened and because the crime is in front of a house (victim’s house), it symbolises fear and uncertainty which is typical in thriller films.

Costumes The masks – represents the emotionless of the criminals because they are represented as faceless which links with the title where the “good people” are trying to unmask the criminals. This is also typical of thriller films, good fighting against unknown bad people.

The black clothes – these represents the darkness of the criminal characters which shows that they are dangerous. These characters and costumes are usually featured in thriller film. This shows that the characters are more dangerous because they act like they have nothing to lose

Props

The keys - close up of the keys represents that the victim drop her keys when she was attacked. This also represents fear because it symbolises that she was near her home which is personal.

The knife – the close up of the knife with blood represents that the knife was used in a violent crime. This is usually typical iconography in horror films. However, knives are used in thrillers usually as a secondary weapon. First weapon typically being guns.

Camerawork

Two shot - this two shot of the criminals is the very last shot of our trailer. This image comes after the title and “coming soon” to represent that there is more to this thriller that the audience believes . This is used in our thriller trailer as a lasting image, the final shot that the audience sees. This is used to entice the audience into watching the full film, if we made one.

Editing (3 part structure)

Part 1 - our thriller trailer starts off with a crime scene and throughout the trailer we see what has happened. This starts off somewhere in the middle of the full story plot which breaks continuity. This is typical for a trailer because a trailer is supposed to show the parts of the full film which entices the audience to watch the full film.

Part 2 – the black and white (representing past) shot of the victim being killed by the 2 criminals represents that this part is before the first shot, breaking continuity.

Part 3 – the final shot represents the last part on the 3 part structure where two shot only shows the main characters, leaving questions about the plot. This also breaks continuity because the audience does not know where this shot will fit in the plot.

Captions

Caption 1 - “death without remorse” connotes that our thriller plot will have violence and crime, which is stereotypical of thriller films.

Tagline – “Every action has a price” is our thriller tagline. This connotes that the plot is about the ripple effect and consequence of the decision that are made. This is typical of thrillers to have a dark tagline which connotes bad things will happen.

Key Character Traits

Criminal traits – this shot shows that the characters in black are violent, ruthless criminals that are willing to kill. This is stereotypical in thrillers where the criminals are very violent and dangerous.

Police traits – this shot represents the police officers walking under the crime scene tape to examine what has taken place. These characters are represented as good fighting against the criminals. The costumes that the police are wearing are lighter than the criminals, representing that they are good. However, the costumes are still quite dark which connotes that they have seen evil and part of themselves may have become corrupt.

Special effects

Flash from Camera – this flash is used in our trailer when one of the police officers are taking pictures of the keys and knife which then flashbacks to how the keys and knife got there.

Black and White – the black and white saturation is used in our thriller trailer to connote that what is happening is in the past.

Soundtrack

Hunted – the soundtrack we first chose was hunter which sounded eerie and more like horror which did not connotes the thriller film we were hoping to achieve.+

Slowly creep – this is the music track that we decided for our trailer because it gave a scene of suspense which is typical in thrillers.

Magazine cover The glow around the empire letters is similar to “The Dark Knight” magazine. However, we went with gold instead of green to link all our products together.

The close up of the criminals face shares similar characteristics with the “joker” cover because it emphasises on the bad character rather than on the good character.

Most empire covers doesn’t have the masthead on top of the image. This is where we got the idea from to put the masthead on top of our image.

Poster

The gold title is similar to the “Halloween” poster. We kept the colour scheme because the gold represents the money that the criminals are stealing in part of the trailer.

We changed the iconography because the knife in the “Halloween” poster connotes horror and we wanted to connote thriller. So we changed the weapon to a gun which is typical thriller iconography. We got the idea to put

our tagline in the top left corner because it stands out on the white background.