Conventions: Music that has an eerie tone, building suspense. The music/soundtracks of horror trailers really set the tone of the film and give the viewers watching a nervous feel.
Tropes: Horror movie genres always have jump scares, or at least one. Horror films also always have horrifying backgrounds or a more complex plot that we see in trailers.
Clichés:
The “dumb one” always running in the opposite direction of safety or loosing
all common sense when in a scary situation. In horror movies
at least one of
the main cast either comes possessed or dies or gets haunted in the end.
Takeaways: The reason I decided to use the nope trailers as a reference (final trailer vs. first trailer) is because when the movie came out last summer, I had watched the first trailer thinking it was a horror, then watched another and realized it gave a completely different vibe than the others. Some people in the comments seemed to agree with me. One comment on the second trailer stated “I thank god I didn’t see this trailer before watching the movie. The first trailer was so goddamn good and scary and this one not only gives so much away but it makes it look like some action movie. But I saw the movie yesterday and not only was it absolutely horrifying but it was a MASTERPIECE”. My main goal is to make two different trailers that seem like they’re in two different genres, which I think is exactly what these two accomplished. Also, the main difference I can take away from these are the music choices. Analyzing the different elements of these two trailers will definitely help me prepare for making my trailers.
1st trailer:
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