How to make an Effective Trailer
To make a scary horror trailer there is a variety of techniques that need to be used including different effects. Effects can be simple or complex throughout the trailer but it needs to make the audience tense and worrying what will come next. For example:
- Toying with the audience: By using different camera techniques whilst filming, it makes the audience think that there may be something/someone going to jump out round the corner but really there is nothing there.
- The weather: Horros tend to happen in dark miserable weather, you rarely see something happening in broad daylight with the sun shining. By the weather being horrible it adds to the suspense. Fog could be used to create eeriness, snow could be used to show that people may be blocked in and are able to not get anywhere.
- Scary music: Music needs to be used to create suspense and keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Whilst there is a tense moment in the movie then there may be fast music to create tension, but the use of silence could also be used before a dramatic moment to make it more scary.
- Suspense: This links into the music and camera shots as well as what happens within the scene. The audience think that something is going to happen.
- Location in the middle of nowhere: There is nowhere for the victim to run or get help, also there will be no-one around to hear the screams. Old buildings, castles and abandoned houses would be good to use for being scary as everyone thinks that they are haunted (stereotypically).
- Ambient sound: Crickets are an example to use, this adds to the scene as the audience believe there is no-one around as there is no sound except for the wildlife. This links into them being in the middle of nowhere with nobody to turn to.
- Hints towards the killer: The audience may not see the killer but get hints of who it may be.
- The theory of when the nature of families are not perfect it indicates that something may go wrong. The family is difunctional = represents life.