Trailer research

These are two trailers that I have found on youtube to help give me some ideas and conventions of what need to be in our radio trailer. Although both are film trailers, you can interpret both into what they would sound like as radio trailers by just listening and and not watching them.

This is the film trailer for the film 'When a Stranger Calls'. I chose to look at this particular trailer because it has the same sort of story line as our film and therefore it shows the sort of things that would be good to have as in our radio trailer. The music in this trailer i feel is what creates the fear and suspense in the audience. It starts of quite but has a spooky feel to it so the audience know something may happen, but soon gets louder and scarier. However, in certain parts they cut the music and then add in a band about a second after the music stops to really make the audience jump and sit on edge. The dialogue within the trailer also adds to the suspense of the music as the lines that are said are panicked and scary which add to the fear. There isn't a voiceover in this trailer but it may be because it is a film trailer not radio trailer. However one thing I did notice was included was the caption of the film 'Have you checked the children?'. This it would seem is what combines the film and trailer together as it is the website name also. The release date is also included in the trailer which seems to be conventional because the audience need to know when the film is going to be in cinemas.


This is the trailer for the film 'The Strangers'. Similarly to the previous trailer, it is also a film trailer so you have to listen to the trailer rather than watch it. I also chose this trailer because it has similar aspects to our film and therefore would be helpful in giving me inspiration for our own trailer. I think the dialogue in this trailer is what makes the overall feel of it scary. They have picked lines from the film that create emotion within the audience and also fear and panic so that the audience that are listening to the trailer are gripped and want to go and see the film. There is some music in the trailer that slowly builds suspense, but they have silenced it in some parts as a second later there is a sound effect of a loud bang etc. This is something that I also noticed in the previous trailer, it seems to be an aspect of horror trailers that keep the audience gripped and creates fear within them. This trailer also has the caption that is in the poster and film combining the three products together and also adding a fear factor within the audience as it is quite a scary caption and could relate to anyone listening to the trailer. It would seem that this is also conventional of a horror genre trailer as it is also in the previous trailer.