Film Trailer Analysis

In film trailers usually have quotes or phrases. These things make the audience more interested in the film because the quotes or hints are usually making the audience want to watch the film more and can leave the audience puzzled which will make them watch the film and want to find out. Also the thing that would make the audience watch a film is the actors in the film. Actors in the film are important because the audience might watch the film because of the actors, because they’re famous. Also the other thing that makes the audience watch the film is because of the actors, maybe because all the films they watched with the exact actor were really good, so it might make them think that the film with that particular actor might be really good as well.

Sometimes in trailers there is also the actor’s/ background voice. Which will maybe tell a bit about what’s happening or might make the audience be even more interested in the film because what the actor/ background voice might of said made them puzzled and just interested to watch it.

Music that is played during the trailer might be calm and essential, or tense. By the music in the background the audience might be able to tell what the film genre is about.

The target audience for this film might be people who love horror films. Probably people/ kids ages between 13-30, because old people aren’t really interested in horror films. The trailer gives away a bit of the film by showing in the beginning of the film that the girl (main character) is adopted and is an orphan and that she is going to do something bad because in the trailer you can see that she has some kind of mental illness.

There isn’t any information about the director of the film throughout the trailer and there isn’t any information about the release date.

The genre of the film in the trailer has been presented throughout the character because the girl is adopted, which shows in the trailer. Also because the girl has mental illness and it shows how her parents take her to see a specialist. Also in some bits the girl is in a white dress in darkness, which makes her look scary. The setting of the film is alright, which doesn’t make it really scary because it is in a modern house which is shown in the trailer.

From the trailer you can get more ideas about what the film is going to be about because it tells you more about what is it going to be about, gives you more detail. Also from the trailer you can see what other people are going to be involved in the film. Also you can catch up with the story and see if it is going to be good or not, whereas from the poster you can’t really see what is going to happen and you can’t really understand it.

The advantages of using an internet trailer is that you can understand the film more and you can get a better idea what it is going to be about, whereas about the poster you just see on images of person which don’t really tell you what the film is going to be about.

Film Poster Analysis

The typical codes and conventions of this film poster is the eye catching image which will kind of show a bit of what the film is going to be about and it can tell the audience about the genre. The other conventions that this film poster includes is the production blurb Probably the most important thing in a poster is the name of the film because audience will want to know what the film is called.  Also audience would expect the rating of the film, to see how good the film is. There is expectance of seeing the certificate, to see if the film is appropriate for younger people. Critic view would be expected as well which will give the audience information if the film has any ups and downs and probably how good is it as well.

The genre of the film is horror.  You can see that of the image and the way the name of the film is written.  This girl in the main image looks scary because you can barely see her eyes because they are dark because of the shadow. It is also because of her face expression, she looks serious and quite angry. The background is dark red which might represent blood in any ways and the house which you can barely see with only one window light up. The title of the movie also makes it scary because it looks that it’s been scratched on or that a girl or a boy who been learning how to write wrote it. And the little girl with the bloody background and the scratched movie title add up to being scary.

The titles has been designed this way because that would make the audience think or make them expect that this is going to be about little kids, because when little kids start writing, they write in a similar shrift.  And because the title is written in a kid’s shrift, this movie is going to be about little or young kids, its going make the movie even scarier.

I think that people who love scary films would love to see this film. Most horror films are scary if they have young kids in it that are mysterious. This is exactly what like the girl in the image is. The main selling point might be that the film is about an orphan, which makes the film a bit different from the other films. The thing that makes the film even more interesting is that it is all realistic, not computer made or exaggerated like films about ghosts in which people wouldn’t really believe in.

My poster and film doesn’t reference to any intertextual products.

The company that produced the film is Warner Bros.  Warner Bros is one of the most knowing film company known and is a major Hollywood company.  The film company would place the posters in most viewable places that people would see like: on the buses, in the bus stops, on the back of the magazines on television.