Trailer analysis
Friday the 13th 1980
In
the trailer for “Friday the 13th” the audience isn’t really shown
that much other then the lead up to a death because back then in 1980 all the
audience really went to see a horror movie for was the interesting ways in
which the murderer could kill his/her victims.
The
trailer is shot in a very standard way but what this trailer has that modern
day trailers don’t is a narrator, even though he is just counting numbers for
each murder there is modern day trailers don’t tend to have this. When the
first few numbers come on the screen you can’t really tell the reason for them
but by the end you know that they are counting up each murder that happens
within this film. You can tell this by the way the people start screaming and
the shot of knives that are shown.
The
sound effects in this trailer are sudden and low toned but there isn’t as many
sound effects in this trailer compared to a more modern trailer. But when this
film was made slasher was quite a new sub genre in the horror franchise and all
that the audience really cared about was how the victims were going to be
killed and what special effects would be used in killing them. That’s why this
trailer got it right in showing the audience all the different victims just
before they died so it keeps the audience wondering and wanting to go and see
the film. It keeps the audience excited and wondering what will happen.
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