Analysing Film Trailers

The Blaire Witch Project
Genre – Horror/mystery/thriller
Narrative – Students film their experience in some local woods that have is rumoured to be haunted
Unique Selling Point – Real camera footage to make it look realistic, the teenagers film themselves so the audience can relate to the film and belive that it is real
Target Audience – Teenagers
Music – Creepy music/spacey/fast paced
Shot Types/ Camera Angles – Blurry and shaky to show that it has not been filmed in a studio or with a real camera set to make it more real life like, close ups of hands and parts of people with dark woods in the background. Close ups of grass and trees
Pace – Music makes it appear fast however the pace is in slow motion
Dialogue – Screaming, no dialogue as everything is explained in intertitles
Voiceover – None
Special Effects – None as the teenagers are filming, makes it more belivable
Credits and Intertitles – Introduction sentence to give an insight to what the plot of the film is, reviews from papers and magazines to show that people have enjoyed it, title at the end