Research and planning- Trailer analysis one

Genre:
This silent hill trailer is a horror genre trailer. I can tell this because of the fast sounds that build tension also the jump cuts to different scenes makes me think that this is a horror trailer. Also the things that we associate with horror like the blood, darkness and the screaming sounds.On this trailer there are also intimidating faces like the women she goes to for her father, and the little girl that walks slowly from the tornado. The media language here like the fast pace editing, the close up of the faces to show facial expressions the wide shots to build tension and fear and show whats coming.In this trailer all we see is the girl she is the main character as she has most shots of her we know this as Carol Glover has said the final girl will be terrorised throughout the film, on this trailer we see that she still survives even till the end because its her nightmares and her dad gets taken away from her first.

Representation: 
This film is from a female point of view as she is the main character and we see her throughout the film. Here the women is being stereotyped as being the strongest as she saves all the people but we mostly see that mens do the saving as mens have the power to do this. On this film her friend disappears and her dad too but then she goes and saves them so we see her right till the end.

Narrative:
The story is about Heather Mason who faces her nightmares since childhood until when she finds out her father and her friend disappears she finds herself in a strange and alternate reality that holds answers to her nightmares. In the film trailer we see the binary opposites which is said by Levi Strauss and Roland Barthes the opposites like when she is in the good mood we see that the atmosphere is light and when its her bad moments we only see darkness known as low key lighting. Heather Mason seems to be the hero throughout the film we see this in most shots in the film and trailer this is to identify that she is the main character in the whole film, this is one of Propp's theory where he talks aboput character types in our case she is the hero and final girl till the end of the film.

Audience:
By watching the film I think that the audience dont need to be passive or active as the certificate for this film is TBC which is known as to be confirmed because the BBFC have not confirmed what the age should be as its not all scary but its known as a horror genre. For this film I think it can be for any gender also at the teenager age any one can watch this but if twelve they may have to be accompanied by an adult. The audiences lifestyle can be a student in a school as we see Heather Mason in the school corridors so we get told she has been to 5 different schools since she was eleven. I think we also get a bit of reception theory in this film because if she has been to five different school we can assume that she has a bad behaviour or some sort of problem that does not allow her to stay in school, we are getting different meanings from the film by listening to voices.

Media language:
On this film trailer we see quite alot of media language such as the cinematography shots and pace, the editing of the film, the mise-en-scene, dressing, facial expressions and lighting and lastly the sounds that we get from the film trailer.

Cinematography-
On this film trailer I saw alot close up shots of the main character this is to show that Heather Mason is the main character in this film, we see how she feels throughout. We also get wide shots like when the small women comes walking infront of the tornado also when we see the wall where it says 'come to silent hill'. Moreover there were alot of fast pace editing as Kuleshov method said its the montage, the fast pace editing in the trailer is used to create tension and make it dramatic. Also on the trailer there was low angles, zooming technique used and camera tracing the people.

Editing-
Like before the editing of this film trailer is a montage because of the fast pace editing. Not only this but at the begining of the trailer there is a lot of jump cuts which shows part of the film. But mostly ther are alot of straight cuts that are visible on screen but we cant really see them. theres dissolve and mostly fade out blacks on the trailer.

Mise-en-scene-
The facial expressions used on this are to show the intimidation of the people and to create tension of the audience and the facial expressions are shown with close up of the face. Moreover, the lightings are used like dark to demonstrate fear which is called low key lighting also high key lighting for the times when she is with the guy and also sometimes with her dad and when in school.

Sound-
The dialogue used by Heather Mason is throughout the film trailer also to potray that she is the main character. The trailer uses calm, gentle music when she talks about herself and her dad and the boy Vincent, but when it comes to the monsters and the ghosts it's loud and fast paced to make it realistic, dramatic and to create tension for the whole film and trailer.