Research and Planning: Influential Trailers

This is the trailer for a film called 'The Host' which is due to be released next year. I watched this trailer and absolutely loved it, everything about it I found interesting but I especially liked the sound and music. The first part of the trailer has dark lighting and a man creeps up on the girl, this builds suspense as we think something bad is about to happen, as my film is about a stalker I think that this would be a good and effective way to show the creeping up and watching of a person. At 1:14 in the trailer it shows the girl full of scratches this make up is how I would like my actress to look for my magazine cover. Although the genre of this film and my film trailer are very different with opposite plots, I feel there are certain elements I can take away from this trailer to use for myself.



This is the trailer for a film called 'The Lovely Bones' which was released in 2009. I really enjoyed how the main character in the film who was dead did the voiceover to the trailer, I feel this gave the film a very eerie and personal touch. I would consider doing this in my trailer and using only small parts of dialogue from other parts, I think this helps the audience to relate more to the character.