The Orphanage is a horror style movie which was created in 2007. I looked at this particular movie because I am intending to do a horror movie for my final place. The trailer shows a range of different features which help to show that it is a horror movie and intends to scare people.
Personally I felt that the trailer was chilling and did actually make it clear that the movie was a scary movie, which obviously had a huge twist. The features combined helped make the genre of the movie clear, it was a horror movie. The trailer has a very atmospheric feel about it, it was clear that it was aimed at people who enjoy ghost movies.
Firstly the music throughout was extremely creepy and within the feel of the trailer. The music was chilling and helped to add to this ghostly, horror atmosphere. There were 3 different types of music. The first was slow and helped introduce the story, however after a while it stops and is interrupted by the screams, whispers and laughs of this hidden evil spirit that becomes clear when this begins. The pause in the music helps bring it to reality and highlights the horror movie feel. The second part of music begins and it begins to get a little faster which helps show that it is more into the story, this is also interupted by more screams and sinister sounds. The third set of music is very fast which helps illiterate the fear and also how the audience will feel. The music ends and the sound remains the screams and other sounds of the people. The sound in the trailer is very important as it shows that it is a horror film and also helps draw the audience in.
The camera angles helps make the trailer more interesting. In this particular film, I counted around 56 camera angles in the film and a lot of different techniques. The two most used camera techniques would have to be panning and zooming. I noticed a lot of those being used. The range of angles was amazing, they changed angles at least every 3-5 seconds to variate the trailer and to show the different scenes.
Finally another two things combined which helped create the feel was the captions and the voice over. Both of these combined help create a chilling feel. The voice over was very dominant and helped tell the story, talking about the innocence of children combined with horror. The captions also explained what was happening.
