This post will demonstrate what one film trailer of my choice includes in every shot for the first 60 seconds of the trailer. I will use this as research for when I attempt to create a film trailer, and therefore I will look at a film that is of a similar genre to the one that I will attempt to create, which is a thriller. I will include the shot number, the number of seconds into the trailer and what the shot contains.The film trailer I will be looking at is for the film The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
1. 00:00: Production company logo fades onto the screen: 'An Orion Pictures Release'
2. 00:03: Close up of detective wearing glasses asks 'You spook easily Starling?'
3. 00:05: Close up of main character Starling shakes her head 'Not yet sir'
4. 00:07: Starling is in a jail, she is locked behind bars and the prison guard says 'He's past the others, the last cell'
5. 00:11: Mid shot on prison guard and he says: 'I'll be watching, you'll do fine'
6. 00:14: Mid shot of Starling behind bars and voice over says 'A killer is on the loose'
7. 00:18: Close up of Starling in a car and non-dietetic audio from the radio says: 'He keeps them alive for 3 days'
8. 00:19: Close up of newspaper strips talking about the killer, radio continues 'And then he shoots them'
9. 00:20: Extreme close up of girls lips, radio continues 'Skins them, skins them and then dumps them!' - this audio plays which flashes of the newspaper articles appear on and off the screen
10. 00:24: Starling walking through the jail cells, voice over continues: 'A rookie FBI agent is on his tail'
11. 00:27: Mid-shot of Starling in a car, she says: 'He's got, real physical strength'
12. 00:29: she continues: 'He's cautious, precise and he's never impulsive' as the shot changes to the image of the killer undressing a victim
13. 00:31: Mid-shot of Starling in the car again, she says: 'He'll never stop'
14. 00:35: A panning shot, through the jail
15. 00:37: Close up of Starling, voice over continues: 'But in order to close him down'
16. 00:39: Mid-shot of the killer in a jail cell, voice over continues: 'She'll have to match wits' Hannibal Hector in the jail cell says: 'I'll help you catch him, Clarie' to Starling
17. 00:42: Close up on Starling
18. 00:43: Close up on detective with glasses again saying: 'Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Hector inside your head'
19. 00:45: Shot of police car and policemen running, with the sound of sirens in the background
20. 00:48: Mid shot of Hector in a different jail cell, voice of detective in the background says: 'Just do your job, and never forget what he is'
21. 00:51: Close up of Hector
22. 00:52: Close up of a newspaper referring to the killer, and the voice over of the detective continues: 'He's a monster'
23. 00:54: Close up of Starling, voice over of detective continues: 'Pure psychopath'
24. 00:55: Close up of a different detective, he says: 'It's so rare to catch one alive'
25. 00:56: Close up of a victims body
26 00:57: Close up of Starling holding a picture of the victim
27. 1:00: Camera zooms in from a mid-shot to a close up of Hector in a jail cell as he speak to Starling
Notable conventions in this trailer:
Sound effects: chilling sound whenever there is a change in shot that relates to the killer, i.e. newspaper articles, body of victim or pictures of victims etc.
Transitions: fade is used on more than one occasion
Editing: quick cuts, a person is never on the screen more than a few seconds
Low key lighting
Lots of close ups of the characters is connote their emotions - usually worry / anxiety or fear
The production company logo at the start
The use of voice over throughout - both the voice over man and speech of characters
Variety of shots - usually low angle shots looking up at Hector and close ups or low angle shots on the detectives and Starling, pan shot, POV shot, handheld camera, mid shots, long shots, use of zooming in, over the shoulder shot, etc.
Digetic sound: chilling music, sound effects, sirens, radio and voice overs etc.
Here is the link for The Silence of the Lambs trailer I looked at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKs169Sl0I
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