Devil Trailer Analysis

      
I and my fellow student Jason Parrish studied this trailer, among others to highlight the genre and tarilor conventions.

The trailer for the 2010 horrror movie "The Devil", uses many of the conventions that are expected in a horror movie. The interesting use of using a city as the location, though being stuck in a elevator creates a kind of isolation from everything giving a more frigthening feel to the movie as the evelator is stuck on the 11th floor. The use of camera angles also gives more tension when the people are stuck in the elevator, this is done by a high viewing angle that makes the viewers seem superor compared to the victims. In the trailer they take risks by using 4 seconds worth of darkness, this is a major risk because this time could of been used by footage to grab the viuewers attention. Though by using the darkness this works as we just hear noises in the background that make us want to know more of what is happening, in this four seconds we also kinda get to see what the characters are going through as they cant see anything in the elevator when the lights go out so we as the viewers get to expereince what the characters are experiencing. Also the use of text and images at the begining of the trailer, this is because the images are shown upside down this shows already 5 seconds into the movie that something isn't right and that it isn't the adverage day.

Both of the ladies are wearing some light colours as their characters, but they are also dressed very smart as they are attending work on a daily bases. Though the younger women is dressed more feminine, wereas compared to the the older women wearing a suit shes gives off the appearance to be more mascualine. This shows the younger women has more of a sexual appear towards men, as she is wearing a very fitting top that hiughlights her feminine features more compared to the other women.