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This is the film trialer for Shutter Island, appealing to a similar demographic I have in mind. I love how the editing in this is short and snappy with fading transitions which make it very effective and builds up suspense which would work well for an apocolyptic/thriller/horror genre of film.
It begins with the distrubuters logo and then an establishing shot of a boat surrounded by mist which indicates the suspisuos nature of the film, foreshadowing the events. It uses faded transitions between every shot which disrupts the flow but is effective in showing some of the plot, if not the trailer would be difficult to dennotate. There isn't too much camera movement, but uses a range of camera shots (over the shoulder, 2 shot, establishing shots, wide shots) before the pace increases at around 1 minutes 50 seconds when the shots become a lot shorter before the title. There is then an additional shot where a man jumps on  DiCaprio's back before the credits which is jumpy. There is alot of Dim lighting surrounding the shots which are taken around the mental insistute which is an important factor of setting the scene, provoking the audience to be aligned with DiCaprio.




This trailer was the one used to promote the blair witch project, a film with in a film, all shot by a held hand camera. I really like the idea of using the a hand held camera to shoot a documentary or film trialer as it can see more than the average camera, moving with the person on their eye line and in the sight. The idea of interviewing the citizens at the beginning is a nice element to the film, giving the target audience a feel about the story line and characters. I think that the hand cam could only work for a horror/thriller/documentary film though becuase of the jumpy movement which gives away the type of camera used which wouldn't work for a romantic comedy for instance because they are all clean shots.

It begins with a black scene with background information on it before interviewing people, in both black and white and colour shots, giving the impression that the legend of the blair witch has been around for a while. Reviews then come on scene while there is a shot of woods and forestry. Black transitions are effective pauses in  this, connatating mystery and danger before tracking shots of the people at night in the woods. The close up of the girl is an interesting point of mood change, the close up of half her face demonstarates the hand held camera and amatuer handling while aslo showing the fear in her eye. The fact of their being no music, unlike most trailers, is very creepy but forces the audience to focus on what is said and the ambient/diegtic sounds.