Containment Trailer

In the trailer we are first shown television pixilation before the typography of “If the door to insanity” “were opened,” “would you walk through it?”. These were shown in 3 separates cuts with dongs through each quote. This is to make each part of the quote more effective and to create more tension in the atmosphere. Non-diegetic sound in the form of the dongs could symbolise something like “the end is nearing” for the main protagonist which could show how he may get killed/similar situation during the trailer. We are shown a number of different questions during the trailer and could try to be telling a story and making the audience think about the film &trailer before watching it. High pitched sounds were used each time to show important parts of the trailer which shows hints about the film to the audience - this is a cheap and easy way to give subtle hints to the audience without giving away the whole plot.

Pixelation was used as transitional jump cuts within the trailer and makes the audience confused as to what has just happened – something during the scene has just cut off and they do not know what is going to happen next. This is also a cheap and easy method as we can just generally download the sound & picture onto a computer. Other non-diegetic sound effects used within the film were gun shots and quick pace movements of the antagonist which symbolised the change of the pace within the trailer. Montages of quick jump cuts during the trailer was effective because it showed a lot more of the plot but within 30 seconds – yet sometimes trailers like these may show too much of the plot and then the whole story is already revealed within the trailer (something that we do not want to do at all – we want to tantalise the audience into watching the film without revealing too much of the plot). 

During the trailer, the camera used was hand-held for the whole of trailer (the picture above shows the security guard holding the camera to show as evidence of perculiar creatures within the film). This resembles a more real-life feel but the problem with using a hand-held camera for the whole of the film is that it looks really unprofessional – for some scenes it is effective but for the whole trailer = no.

At the end we are shown two extra scenes of CCTV footage from the film. The audience would of not been expecting it and shows how the film makers could be showing a message saying “there’s more to the film than you expect” and puts the trailer on a cliffhanger and tries to persuade the audience even more to watch the film. 

The film was made with a low budget in mind and shows that it is very possible for our group to make a film trailer like this. The film is done in the same surroundings (office block) but with different camera angles used (e.g. high angles, medium & close up shots), the trailer looked like it had been filmed in a number of different locations. There was one main actor used for the trailer and the main mise-en-scene used for the film was cling film for the antagonist but still looked effective due to the editing of the trailer. They did not use stereotypes such as “made from the producers of that famous film” or “based on a true story”; they relied on a good plot to counter the fact they had practically no money for the acting and technical aspects of the film and that is something we should concentrate on because of the low budget we have.