The following shot is of the man being chased entering an abandoned building and locking the door behind him. It then cuts to a mid shot of the people coming out of the cars and following the man to the building. The people are wearing casual clothes and are middle aged this could indicate that they are parents, chasing the man for reasons we don’t know yet. A man at the front of the group holding a hockey stick in his hand shouts, “Krueger, come out you sick bastard!” From this we realise that the man being chased is called Krueger and the hockey stick indicating that the parents are clearly upset with something and that the scene is going to get violent. The upbeat music is still continued and the editing is still normal paced.
The following shot is a close up of Krueger holding the door knob so no-one can enter, his facial expressions showing he is scared. He then replies, “What do you think I’ve done, I haven’t done anything.” The upbeat music suddenly stops after the shot replaced by diegetic sound of a man lighting a petrol can and throwing it in the abandoned building that Krueger is hiding in.
The next few shots are mid shots of Krueger catching fire. Diegetic sound is still used but this time of Krueger’s cries and screams burning alive. Whilst he is on fire he takes of his coat to stop the fire, he is wearing a red and black striped jumper underneath which the camera focuses on. The scene cuts back and forth between Krueger burning and close ups of the facial expressions of the parents. The facial expressions showing they feel bad listening to Krueger burning alive and probably regret the decision they made in fury. The lighting in the building was back lit by the flames of the fire, the back lit lighting creates a shadowy figure, which builds up more suspense for the audience. The final shot of the scene is the building blowing up with Krueger inside. This opening scene to the trailer indicates that the film is definitely not going to be a romantic or comedy, as it has an action packed opening. Romantic or comedies usually have calm relaxed openings with soft music to flow with it.
The scene then fades to black, non diegetic sound of a single drum beat is played as the producers name appears on screen in a red font with a black background, the red font maybe symbolising blood, maybe indicate the horror genre. It then fades to black again but this time 3 young girls playing in a park is shown synchronised with the non diegetic sound of the single drum beat. The next few shots are the same, in terms of the editing fading to black after every shot and a single drum beat during each shot. The final shot of that particular scene is a mid shot of a women talking about having nightmares. As the next shot begins non diegetic sound changes to young girls singing a nursery rhyme type of song, this making it uncomfortable for the audience, as they are singing in a slow rhythm with a high pitched voice, creating an eerie atmosphere. As the song is playing there is a mid shot of a man, there is dimmed back lit lighting in the building creating a mysterious shadowy figure similar to the one we saw of Krueger earlier, this shot in particular makes the link between the mysterious shadowy character and Krueger.
The next few shots are establishing shots of Elm Street. The non diegetic sound of the young girls singing is stoped for a split second, replaced by diegetic sound of someone with a metal claw scratching against metal pipes whilst tailgating a woman, as the pipes are being scratched we identify that the person doing that is wearing a red and black jumper. It is also in the same location as the one we saw the mysterious shadowy figure. The audience will suddenly realise that the shadowy figure is Krueger himself coming back to haunt the street. A quick close up shot of the woman waking up screaming from a nightmare is shown, with the eerie non diegetic sound of the girls singing continuing.
The following shot is a mid shot of two young girls about the age of 7 locked up in a cage, this shot making the audience even more uncomfortable with what’s going on, as young girls are not locked up in cages. It then cuts to a close up of a woman sleeping whilst taking a bath, with the same metal claw we saw in the trailer previously appearing from the water. She suddenly wakes up from the nightmare and the claw disappears. This along with the other woman waking up from her nightmare indicates to the audience that they are having the same nightmares with the same person in it and as we have established it Krueger. The next shot is a high angle shot a man shouting “Don’t fall asleep” to a woman, she then tortures herself to stop herself falling asleep, this just proving that something weird is happening in their dreams.
All the next shots are montage shots, showing people running, hiding, screaming and being taunted by Krueger in their nightmares, mid shots of the freaky shadowy figure of Krueger appearing every few shots during the montage. Fast paced editing is used for the montage, as the montage is quick shots of random clips from the entire film, having montage shots is to build up tension for the audience viewing the trailer. After the montage we can come to a conclusion that the genre is definitely a horror/thriller.
The final shot starts with a high angle over the shoulder shot of a blonde woman crawling away from the Krueger who says, “There’s nothing to worry about, this wont hurt one bit.” A quick low angle glimpse of the Krueger is shown scratching the blonde woman with his metal claw. The shot ends with a scream by the woman and the words “Don’t fall asleep” appearing on screen. The quick shot we see of the Krueger shows he has a burnt face which tells the audience that it’s definitely Krueger, as we saw him burning to death earlier in the trailer. For most of the trailer natural lighting is used, as the villain appears in nightmares the main source of light in the trailer is the moonlight.
The film is targeted for young adults and late teens as most of the characters in the film are teenagers. This is because the audiences could relate to the characters in the film and some of the situations they may have come across in real life.
In my opinion I think this trailer is very effective and as this is a remake off the older one the way they have put more shots of Freddy Krueger and fans will acknowledge this and go watch it.
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