Research - Creep

I am working with Beth on the coursework and together we have chosen to do a thriller/horror themed trailor because the codes and conventions (camera, editing, sound and mis en scene) are clear to undertand how they are shown together to an audience. We have a general idea of a girl being chased by something or someone for our own production, so we used this idea to find some trailers that will involve this and then analyse the use of camera, editing, sound and mis en scene to help produce our own trailer.



The first trailor we chose to research was from the film Creep.
I really like the beginning as it is very slow, which will draw the suspence up from the audience. The camera is hand held making the viewer feel unstable when watching, also because it is slow moving, hand held and with the heavy breathing the viewer assumes they are watching through another person's point of view (most likely the person who is chasing the girl in the trailer). What makes it scary is the fact that the audience doesn't know who's view it is. The sound is also a key componant to the beginning, by having the heavy breathing and the droning sound of the underground makes the viewer feel on-edge. The trailer starts with a well lit environment then gets darker as you carry on watching this makes it scarier because less is seen when its dark making the viewer want to see more than what is shown from the trailer.

Mostly through the trailer the camera is hand held through each different scene especially near the end of the trailor with the fast pace cuts to different scenes and the music is loud building up the action, with the audience only getting glimpes of each scene because they are so quick. Looking at the sound through the clip, they are more natural by using heart beats, heavy breathing and the sound of the trains in the underground makes it feel more real to the viewer. However the camera is generally steady when they show reaction shots of the characters. There are lots of reaction shots and most are close up. In one scene with the man in the empty train the camera zooms close up to his face to emphasise his reaction making the audience feel how he is feeling.