Textual AnalysisFriends forever

The first shot is an establishing shot, allowing the audience to know where the main plot of the film is going to be filmed. The second shot of the young girls holding hands skipping down the road shows that they are the main protagonists in the trailer. It allows the audience to get an idea that they are happy and that they have nothing to worry about for now.

Here we see the young girls looking very happy to be in each other’s company, playing together at the park. The second shot shows a car that one of the girls gets hit by. By doing this the audience finds out why one of the girls is left on her own and how the friend was killed. This is also an establishing shot as it shows the audience where the scene of the crime was. We know that this is where she is killed because the previous clip shows her running into the road and looking at the car.

The use of the low angle, close up shot enables the audience to see the blank expression of the young girl who has lost her best friend. This is a convention that is often used in real horror films. The use of the extreme close up of the girl if effective as it again shows the blank expression and it looks scary. The dim lighting on the clip connotates horror and evil, and lets the audience know that she is the girl that has died and is haunting her friend.

I chose to have text in my trailer rather than a narration, as I thought it portrayed my trailer better than a narration would have done. I included the tag line ‘Do you believe in ghosts?’ in the trailer, letting the audience know that the young girl is being haunted by the girl that had died and is a ‘ghost’. The following clip of the girl walking through the field is an effective way to have near the end of the trailer, because it gives the audience the idea that she is being followed by something, creating the spooky atmosphere that was intended.