Thursday, 15 January 2015

Class Trailer Review

Name of film: Evil Dead
Year Released: 2013
Genre of trailer: Horror
Mark after reviewing: 9/10
What happened in the trailer?
In the trailer a group of young adults who all seem to be in their twenties have come to a cabin in the woods for a break to get drunk and have a good time but one of them finds a book and starts to read it in the trailer we see the guy reading the book and we can see it says “Leave this book alone” written in blood. This is where it all starts as it has awakened demons from the surrounding woods. One of the young girls in the group (Mia) becomes possessed by the demons and she tries to kill the rest of the group. They try to survive and escape but the nearby roads are flooded. The trailer is full of gore and keeps the audience starring at the screen.
Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are fulfilled well?
·         A lot of gore
·         Music worked well
·         Establishes plot
·         Collision cutting slow to quick & quick flashes of action with sound of fx to accompany them.
·         Genuinely horrific bits – tongue cut/eyes on the girl.
·         Music fits the writing very dramatically.
·         Inter titles tell us the story while still being dramatic.
Which aspects of the trailer did you think were unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?
·         Might have shown all the best bits
·         I would have ended the trailer with the scene which the girl is under the floorboard singing “We’re gonna get you”.
·         Ruins plot a little as It gives to much away and it is a very long trailer (2.20)
·         Overly unrealistic puke.
What was the trailer’s average score? Why did it receive that mark?

8.6 – The highest average rating of the films that we reviewed in class, this is because there was plenty of collision cutting, a great use of music and it was genuinely scary. Although there may have been a bit too much gore in the trailer.

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