The film I will be analysing is Disturbia. I chose this film to analyse because we used ideas from this trailer as inspiration for ours. Disturbia is a thriller/drama/ mystery about a boy who is under house arrest and becomes convinced that his neighbour is a murderer. The trailer is considerately long 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
The trailer opens with the main character Kale having a tag attached to his foot, there is a quick pan showing his face. Us, as an audience are automatically wondering what this boy did to get a tag. Non diegetic music is being played from the beginning. Then the productions companies come up and it goes to the judge sentencing Kale to 3 months house arrest which is important information for the viewers to know for later in the trailer. The scene cuts to Kale looking very bored making a tower out of food. There is a quick extreme close up of a gavel being struck against a sound block. As soon as that sound is played the pace of the non diegetic music changes to more up tempo. Text comes up on the screen next saying 'for the next 90 days'. This was a convention that we are using in our trailer. We decided that this was effective to help the audience to understand what was going on in the trailer.
The next shot it of kale putting down objects to make sure he stays in the safe zone. The scene first is an establishing shot of the garden, then a ground shot tilted up showing Kale, and lastly a ground shot of his tagged foot showing a red light and him placing down a garden gnome to show where he can go before the red light goes off again. Text again 'all kale has is the window'.
The tempo of the non diegetic music changes to more drum beats and there is a voice over from the movie of Kale talking to his friend. As this is going on there is a split screen of four shots of what Kale is looking at through his binoculars. This was another shot we took as inspiration for our movie trailer, we were thinking of using a four way split screen of when our main character is walking.
As the trailer progresses the non diegetic change at certain important parts and there are a lot of fast shots in each scene. The non diegetic changes one last time to just beats and the shots change in time with the music. After this the non diegetic music changes completely to more serious dramatic sounds and the shots become a lot slower. This is 58 seconds into the trailer. We liked this convention that it throws the audience off what genre of movie Disturbia is. The trailer goes into more longer shots and a voice over of Kale speaking. There are some spoint of view shots from Kales camera filiming his next door neighbors house. The diegetic music becomes really high almost climatic and then stops completely. This is a usual convention for a trailer to have. The diegetic music returns and this time sounds like a heart beat as Kale tries to escape and find out what his neighbor is up to. The shots of the scenes become fast paced again and there is some fade outs. The text says 'the quieter the street' and there is a light beneath the text which is different to at the beginning where it was just a black background. The diegetic music speed up so it sounds a bit like a drum roll, and then it stops completely. As the trailer develops the clips get faster and they start to flicker to create an uneasiness with the audience. The trailer ends with a climatic scene where someone is hacking at the door. The title credits comes up and then it ends. I think this trailer is a big influence in ours as we liked some of the conventions they used like the 4 split screen and the change in pace with the music and the clips. We also liked the text as it helped explain the storyline a bit more.
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