Deconstructions/Interesting shot ideas

Although the following two trailers are theatrical ones, we thought we could still seek inspiration from them, so below are some deconstructions of interesting shots etc...
 Devil - Teaser trailer

This shot reinforced our ideas that we could show the werewolf transforming without actually showing it. For example, we could create shadows on the wall and shoot the werewolfs shadows or silhouette. Many lower budget films do this. In this shot, although we are only watching a shadow, we can tell that the victim is being possessed or something along those lines.

Interesting narrative shots.. this text helps the audience visually, and the fact that it is upside down above the city connates that something is wrong, or twisted.

 

Thought it was interesting how a suspicious character can be created merely by the presence of a hooded jumper.

Use of sound throughout the trailer is also very impacting, for example.. at the end.. the non diegetic backing sound cuts to a shot of complete darkness and all we hear is diegetic panting and a scream of "who are you".. then the lights come on and back to non diegetic sound.
Another interesting use of sound which we are thinking of including in our trailer is the use of contrapuntal sound between the times 2.03 and 2.16. Whilst people are fighting for survival, and dying, all we hear are casual beeps.. like a metronome.. which could indicate the process is ongoing, and will never stop anytime soon.

The last exorcism

The trailer often has biblical references, which make it seem more real and historical etc

 


Again, although this, in essence, is only a close up of a girls face, the red tint, and the quick editing makes it seem a lot more extreme and impacting in the trailer itself.

Again, this is only a shot of a girl pretending to break her finger, and in the trailer, we do not see it actually break, we just hear a cracking sound which creates the illusion.

This is a clever shot, and goes back to when we analysed Quarantine a little. The shot shows two men quickly holding and looking down the camera lens straight at the audience, this makes us feel like we are there with them. The diegetic sound "switch it off" also gives the shot more of a documentary kind of style. As a group, we really like the idea of using handheld camera shots.



The two shots above and below again give the audience a visual to focus on, and again make the trailer feel quite like a documentary or recording (retrospective view?) The text is also spine chilling in its own.



This ending shot is terrifying. The red tint gives many different meanings, including, blood over the screen, the idea that the devil is in the room etc. The silhouette or figure of the girl can be seen and although she is so far away, it is cleverly shot so she looks scary. We could easily do this with our werewolf and we did shots like this in our coursework last year too!

Often during the trailer, the shots change to a red tint, which could be seen as a POV kind of shot. The red also connates blood, the devil etc. These red tint shots literally only last for a second, as many of them are designed to shock the audience and we are looking to do the same thing in our trailer, with quick shots of the werewolf.

There are also many shots used in the trailer which have the style of recordings.. for example.. black and white static appear on the screen, which looks very effective.