Trailer notes

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 HOW and WHY Trailers are structured in this way

The non-diegetic sound that they use in Horror film trailers is used for a specific reason; the use tense music that builds up throughout the trailer to a point where it reveals the jump scare or the part of the trailer that hooks you to carry on and watch the film. If the clip had no background music the scenes that they show wouldn’t be as scaring and frightening, because there is no build up. In addition another convention of Horror trailers are the snap shots of scenes that are normally less than two seconds, the reason that they only show seconds of the shot is because one they don’t want to show you what happens in all; because then the film would be given away also the background music that is building up with the snap shots of the clips adds to the suspense and the conventions of Horror trailer. Furthermore as the trailer continues the snap shots that start to show on the screen becoming quicker and quicker until the last one where it slows down.


To conclude Horror trailers are structured this way for the attention of the viewer, all the convention for a horror film trailer are done because it is what the target audience are looking for and it is what they enjoy about Horror films which makes them want to watch the actual film. A Horror film trailer is a promotional aspect for the Film.   

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