Paranormal Activity 2 Trailer Research

Paranormal Activity 2 Trailer

                                                                          

The paranormal activity 2 teaser trailer leaves alt of suspense for the audience as this trailer doesn’t reveal a lot about the storyline at all. This teaser trailer has a different approach as it doesn’t have fast paced cuts revealing snippets from the film; this trailer just shows one or two clips from the film but doesn’t reveal anything about the film.

The trailer clips are separated and transitioned by this effect which is good because it relates to the horror genre and adds more suspense to the trailer. This effect has a big impact on the trailer because it is a horror and this is mainly used to relate to this genre as something may have happened to the camera filming the event occurring. Therefore the fact that they have used this in order to transition one clip to another it has a good impact on the teaser trailer.
 

 



With this film being a second of its kind and following on from the previous film it means that they have included some text into the teaser trailer that links into the previous film. This means that it will recap your memory of the events that occurred in the first film in order for you to understand the second film.

The trailer switches from different camera shots of the rooms from around the house giving you the knowledge of the setting in order for you to know where these events take place. In this case it is a house and most of the camera angles are looking down on the rooms.

Throughout the trailer there is incidental music in the background which adds suspense to the trailer. The music playing is a slow and mysterious sound which builds up to the two stings there are throughout the teaser trailer when scary events happen. This adds suspense to the trailer and means that when the sting occurs it should have an effect on the audience, which we know as the trailer reveals footage of people watching the trailer and their reactions. The cameras go close up on the audience’s faces in order to show the people watching the trailer how scared they were when something happened. This is a good idea because it shows the audience that the film is scary which will make them want to watch the movie more to find out what happens.

 

 

This teaser trailer leaves the audience on a real suspense because it hardly reveals anything about the film. I believe that if this was a teaser trailer for a horror film that hasn’t already had one released it wouldn’t be that effective because it doesn’t reveal anything at all. However because this is a follow on from the previous film it will be very effective to the people who had watched the first Paranormal Activity because they will have some idea of what is going on and will leave them in a thunder of thoughts of what may happen in this film.

The trailer then ends with one last sting which reveals a little more about the film as a woman is left standing in a door way which will automatically make the audience think who is that and what she is doing.



After the last sting it then goes to some text which reveals the title of the movie which is a good way to leave it as it finishes on an extreme cliff-hanger leaving the audience in confusion and suspense.