Name of film: The Descent
Year released: 2005
Genre of trailer: Adventure Horror
My marking after viewing: 8/10
What happened in the trailer: A group of girls go on a caving expedition, but after a sudden rockfall, they find themselves trapped in unmarked territory. The story continues as the girls are ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators, picking the girls off one by one. Their only escape, is to try and navigate their way through the dark and claustrophobic caves they have never seen before.
Which positive clever or interesting aspects do you think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are fulfilled well? One prominent feature of the trailer I recognized and particularly liked, was the use of a night-time/vision camera throughout the second half of the trailer. The change in look of the trailer through the use of changing the colours to a darker setting gives the entire tone of the trailer a far more creepy and suspenseful feel. The text used fits the style of a horror trailer perfectly, as well as the use of overdubbing some speech on the text allows for greater continuity. The possibility of a final girl fits the generic horror conventions perfectly, as well as having a broad spectrum for a female victim, as all the main characters are girls, and will fit the convention of blonde hair, blue eyed victim well.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were unsuccessful and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
Although the narrative is established well in the trailer, there is far too much dialogue in the trailer, of characters just talking about the cave. Too much speech can slow the pace of the trailer dramatically, and cause an unwanted interruption to the supposedly fast-paced horror trailer, creating an unwanted possibility of boredom for the viewer.
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