Above are all the posters for the the films I have looked at, although all the trailers are different the posters all follow the same style. The image in all of them is of a scene that looks like or is a screen shot from the film, although perhaps with some more dramatic photographic composition. The colours tones and even the fonts used in each poster are in the same style of the film, so for "INBRED" the writing is weathered and run down wile in "Grave encounters" it has a ghostly glow around it. These conventions should be easy to work with when I make the poster for my film.

INBRED

This trailer stood out from the crowed for me, the subtlety and and simplicity seems to create a lot more apnosphere and suspense than the other theatrical special effects oriented ones I have looked at so far. Rather than trying to shock the audience with gore and terror this film shows them something intriguing and builds tension around that.I Would like to use this strategy for my trailer for two reasons, the first being originality's. To make my piece stand out from the crowd i will have to be strikingly different from the stock trailers that saturate the market. The second reason is resources, I will be able to make a far better quality sequence if it is kept simple so I can work with the equipment and software available in school. On top of that it is likely that I will be working alone so a shorter subtle sequence will be more achievable than a predictable lengthy one.

Grave Encounters

This to me is very predictable trailer, the idea of a team of sceptical people spending the nigh in a supposedly haunted location has been done time and time again, though I will say that this example is well executed. The technical conventions used here are affective strategies that I may use in my piece. These consist of it the use of nigh vision or grainy images, keeping all shots dark and unerving. using fast cuts in junction with sudden scares to increase the intensity of the experience and above all build tension throughout the trailer.

127 HOURS

This film is slightly less one dimensional, the shots at the start are in the style of a mainstream light hearted film. Then the typical fast shots and screams begin when everything starts to go wrong, this trailer i think is more affective a subtle build of tension is better than random scares than are only affective because they are unexpected.

"Paranormal Activity"

The trailer for paranormal activity is a prime example of the almost predictable type of trailer that is often released for films of this genre. The trailer consists of night vision shots of a dark house that begin to build tension as the cuts get faster and strange things start to happen. Given that the big scares in this trailer consist of things like a door opening or unexplaned footprints this kind of trailer is very affective but also quite easy to pull off with limited money and resources.

so far I have looked at a few examples of film trailers from the genre of horror thriller, these films seem to have a fairly standard format of lost of fast cuts and creepy noises. this should be a fairly easy strategy to pin down for my trailer.