Analysis of a horror movie

This film is aimed at promoting a horror movie. This trailer is aimed teenagers and adults. The movie starts of with 3 little girls in a room. It is based on a women in black who's child was killed in an incident. The women then has mental issues and convinces other kids to kill themselves

(released in 2011)

The lighting used in this trailer is high-key lighting, which means in the trailer more filter lights are being used. the effect appears more realistic, this might depict a dimly lit stormy scene. Although you also can see some shadows at the back but the contrast between light and dark is much less pronounced in the trailer. However under lighting is also being used in the scene this comes from below leading to a distorted effect used in a horror movie. However another type of lighting is also used in this trailer which is called top lighting, top lighting is an very important type of lighting in media. This makes the film star look more glamorous on the trailer. As you can see the guy on the trailer has a mystic glow towards his face this connotes the audience to want to know about it and what he is in the movie. it also tells you straight away that he is the main character in the movie as well, because the way he has a big part on this film trailer. Furthermore the way he is holding a touch in his hand connotes fear towards the audience as well.

As you can see at the background of the trailer their is a women with a coat this straight away connotes to the audience that she must be the main character in the movie as the movie is called "women in black" and she is wearing a black coat

The colors used in this poster are misty green and bluey colour this connotes the fear and horror part of the movie. The color used for the haunted house at the back is misty green, this color connotes the scary part of the movie, audience will straight away tell the house is really haunted. Their is also a bit of purple contrasted with the green as well to make it more stand out and catch the audiences eyes. Furthermore the boy is seen in the poster in the center this is reinforcing that he is also the star.

We are going to use a part of the trailer of where the guy is sitting in the rocking chair which connotes fear for the audience and as our film trailer is going to be a horror we want people to get scared and feel fear when watching it therefore using a rocking chair in our trailer and using low key lighting to show the dark showdowey effect we are able to engage the audience into watching it from the start.