Halloween Deconstruction

Trailer opens with clips of appropriate production companies.

There is dark green light (dark green relates to the horror genre) with fading text in the bottom right. There is a non-diegetic narrative that begins.

There is a scene in the style of home video, making it seem slightly distorted, accompanied by non-diegetic technical failing sounds.

Narrative continues throughout changing scenes.

There is an establishing shot of the house. The house is typical of a slasher movie, as it looks very homely and this type of setting is more distressing for the audience.

There is a straight cut to a close up shot of a rat with a blade to it's head. This is the first sign to the audience of the characters unstable and twisted mental well being.

There is  then a close up shot of the boy getting a knife from the kitchen, letting the audience know that something gruesome is going to unravel.

The point of view shot of back of the woman allows the audience to 'view things from the killers perspective.'

There are various straight cuts showing different angles of the killing until there is a non-diegetic loud crash.

The close up shot of the hand touching the leg of a sleeping girl gives the audience the idea that the killer is twisted sexually and clearly shows that his mental thought process is socially ubstable.

There is a loud, high pitched scream, which is stereotypical to slasher movies. The straight cuts of scenes that follow begin to build, with tension increasing. They include screens of a girl hysterically crying, a close up shot of police lights and a long shot of girl looking out of a car window.

There is the image of the mask with text in front, followed by a mid-shot of the villain putting the mask on. Backlighting shows the outline of the mask. Backlighting is used a lot in movies of the horror genre as it creates a lot of mystery for the audience as not everything in the scene is clear. 

There is a close up shot of the killer in low key lighting, making him seem dark and frightening to the audience.

The camera starts shaking, again adding to the urgent build up of tension.

There is a long shot of the villain carrying a girl, with the use of backlighting meaning the audience can only see the outline of the two characters. This is useful in a trailer as it does not give too much away about the plot e.g the identity of the character being carried.

-There is text informing the audience who the writer of the film is- 'from writer of'

The straight cuts quicken further, showing more disturbing scenes.

-There is the build up accompanied by stereotypical, creepy horror music, until the title of film appears- 'Halloween'

There is a long shot of the house featured throughout the trailer. The camera quickly zooms to a mid-shot of the villain and another character struggling at the door of the house. This is accompanied by an on-screen diegetic scream.

-Text appears on screen informing the audience of the release date.