Above are four screenshots from Friday the 13th and then underneath them are screenshots from our trailer. I have chosen to use my version because I think that it's stronger than the one edited as a group. Because I worked on editing it myself I feel I have been able to stick to one idea without other people coming along and changing it again. A problem that occurred regularly when editing the original trailer.
1. Friday the 13th shows an establishing shot at the start to let the audience know where the film is taking place. It is also shown as a pan. The Dead End trailer also has a shot like this. I think this kind of shot works really well at the start as it sets the scenes
2. Both these shots show a people that are happy and enjoying themselves at the start. This gives the audience a false feeling that the people are safe. But in the background you can hear eerie whining sounds which then make you doubt this feeling.
3. These two shots are focused on a girls face looking shocked in a direction, maybe because they have seen the killer. The Friday the 13th trailer shows the 'bad guy' along side of the shots of the girl. Whereas the Dead End trailer doesn't show the bad guy until the girl has been captured, and it also shows a glimpse of the mask as the word 'forgotten' shows up.
4. I chose to compare these two shots because of their colour schemes. They both feature a dark blue colour. The bright sky of the Friday the 13th shot is similir to the bright like that is shown in the Dead End trailer.
The conventions of a teaser trailer are usually about 1 minute to 1 minute 30, my trailer is 1 minute 13 which I think seems to be a perfect length for a teaser.
You need more stills really because you have not been able to get into much detail or explore many conventions of horror. And your bit, sentence which is about trailer conventions is FAR too brief. It is only one sentence long and only considers length. You MUST explore other aspects of how trailers work here, such as narrative elements revealed and concealed, characters and identification, how the "tease" is created (how the trailer leaves you wanting to find out more about the film), how intertitles/voiceovers work, how music works etc. We covered it all and you must look at at least a significant amount of this.
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