SOUND AND EDITING

TECHNIQUE RESEARCH

Eleanor McKeown

SPECTER TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S62EAniXb4w

At the start of the trailer there is a series of short takes from a news reel to an advert to

another commercial encouraging people to go to the town ‘merryride’. The transition of

these inserts jitters as to resemble that of a TV when the channel is switched over. To start

with the advert for the film appears happy, calm and bright but then the plot changes as

Transitions between at the start is fade to black.

In the middle of the trailer there is a long black take after the lights go out which lasts ten

seconds with dialogue over the top. The darkness then fades into a close up of a scary face.

A lot of inserts which are put into a night vision effect, which then jitter off screen similarly

to that as when a TV loses signal and changes channel.

7500 TRAILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0JcGehyXk

The trailer begins with slow takes of shots of the airplane taking off. After

take off the length of the shots dramatically decreases as a convention of

speeding up tension and heightening the suspense. Throughout the majority of

the clip, the rest of the takes are just a series of straight-cuts of the various

workers and passengers becoming haunted on the plane. The inserts which

describe the plot-line are also very well constructed as they text transitions are

carefully made, as the effect of the text looking as though it has been wiped

away is effective and looks mystical.

INSIDIOUS 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V2qNZsf8G4

At the start of the Insidious 2 trailer some slow piano music is playing with a female vocalist and

some dialogue from the family talking about a ‘better life’. After this point the music stops and a

scary lullaby starts to play as the child’s toy is moved into the hallway. This then follows with a

strings score of a murmuring violin sound every few-seconds, which speeds up as the trailer

intensifies. Throughout the trailer there are many shot-reverse shots as the ghost/demon looks at

the mother, for her to look back and then the ghost to be gone – a typical convention used in horror

trailers yet it is still very effective. Throughout the trailer orchestral string sounds are used at a

dramatic moment which then stops at the climax of the scene, which makes the viewer jump and

anticipate the next burst of audio. The inserts used throughout the clip are effective as they are put

against a black background and the font used is not too elaborate so is easy to read at a quick

glance.