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Horror Film Trailer Conventions

Horror Trailer Conventions

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Page 1: Horror Trailer Conventions

Horror Film TrailerConventions

Page 2: Horror Trailer Conventions

Lighting/Colour

There is often a lack of light, at least in many scenes, to add tension and create a dark atmosphere associated with the trailer. Colours are usually desaturated in these scenes to highlight the more darker tones in the shot, along with an increase of contrast and slight cyan tint.

This is a good example of the colours being edited along with particular use of lighting.

https://youtu.be/fChx_YZUAR0

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Fade to Black

This editing technique is common in all trailers however horror most of all as scenes are often already dark and black is in use a lot. A fade to black adds to the theme of the film and helps add a smooth cut between related and unrelated scenes.

https://youtu.be/fChx_YZUAR0

This shot is about to face, you can see the slight opacity, black through the image.

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Mise En Scene

Mysterious and dark objects and often used in horror movies. For example a arm chair or rocking chair in the corner of a shot. Antiques that add drama and suspense to the scenes. Even a store cupboard with normal looking objects in could be made into a spooky shot, with light adjustments ect…

https://youtu.be/fChx_YZUAR0

A old treasure box is used here.

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Title

A typical graphic title for horror films and trailers include aged texture and colours associated with horror, like red, black and grey. They are used to expose and reveal the whole atmopshere ans theme of the film, for the audience to judge the film already and be able to tell what it might include just by the font and text of the title.

https://youtu.be/fChx_YZUAR0

The text is black here with a crumbling and breaking effect on the background as well as the faint water colour ‘2’ behind the main title.