1. Textual Analysis
Friends forever

2. The first shot is an establishing shot, allowing the audience to
know where the main plot of the film is going to be filmed. The
second shot of the young girls holding hands skipping down
the road shows that they are the main protagonists in the
trailer. It allows the audience to get an idea that they are
happy and that they have nothing to worry about for now.

3. Here we see the young girls looking very happy to be in each
other’s company, playing together at the park. The second shot
shows a car that one of the girls gets hit by. By doing this the
audience finds out why one of the girls is left on her own and
how the friend was killed. This is also an establishing shot as it
shows the audience where the scene of the crime was. We
know that this is where she is killed because the previous clip
shows her running into the road and looking at the car.

4. The use of the low angle, close up shot enables the audience
to see the blank expression of the young girl who has lost her
best friend. This is a convention that is often used in real
horror films. The use of the extreme close up of the girl if
effective as it again shows the blank expression and it looks
scary. The dim lighting on the clip connotates horror and evil,
and lets the audience know that she is the girl that has died
and is haunting her friend.

5. I chose to have text in my trailer rather than a narration, as I
thought it portrayed my trailer better than a narration would
have done. I included the tag line ‘Do you believe in ghosts?’ in
the trailer, letting the audience know that the young girl is
being haunted by the girl that had died and is a ‘ghost’. The
following clip of the girl walking through the field is an effective
way to have near the end of the trailer, because it gives the
audience the idea that she is being followed by something,
creating the spooky atmosphere that was intended.