Further Research into My Genre

Se7en is a psychological thriller. The narrative of this story entwines more horror elements in this film than other films of the same genre. I was looking at this trailer to see how the narrative of the film is portrayed in it. I was looking at this because in my trailer i wish to leave a cliff hanger at the end of the trailer so the audience are not disappointed when they actually see the film. A trailer needs to entice the audience with some of the action, horror and narrative but not all of it otherwise you spoil the story. Se7en does this very well in its trailer. The narration on the trailer is to ensure the audience get told the information they need to, for example in this trailer about the detectives personalities. The actual clips of film feed the audience parts of the investigation, enough to wet their appetite. The murder scene scenes are only briefly shown, this allows the audience to only memorise that part of the film and makes them curious which is a natural human instinct.

The music in this trailer is what brings about the atmosphere. The music comprises of diagetic and non diagetic sound. The music which is non diagetic is the main song and creates an eery atmosphere with its mid slow tempo and eery sound. To create more of an insane feeling a metronome is used to add more of a suspenseful atmosphere. Music is very important for my trailer as this is what creates the genre. If this type of music wasn't used then the audience would be confused as to what the genre is and also think that maybe it is a spoof.

The narrative of this film is shown in a difference sequence than the film. The deaths are shown in order but the detectives shots are all different sequences. The shots changed quickly but the shots linger longer than a horror trailer. There are a lot of shots in psychological trailers so in order to make my trailer good quality i need a variety of shots.  The shots also do not include the ending of the film and the audience never see the killer, there is only one quick shot of the killer where he fires a gun but the shot is so quick that the audience don't have the time to absorb how he looks. This sticks with the audiences curiosity and therefore achieves its objective of getting the audience member to want to go to the cinema and spend the money to watch the film.