A nightmare on Elm St Trailer

Editing: In this trailer it follows a typical horror trailer. The start of it is conventional it has slow shots which build up the tension and can sence somethings going to happen, then it fades into another shot making the audience on edge and know somethings not right. Then it changes to lots of fast shots of different events happening this shows panic within the audience and the characters themselves. Its interesting because the shots variey from slow, short shots to fast which the audience don't expect. Also another clever editing skill is the music is in time with the shots which makes it very effective.

Mise en scene: At the start of the trailer it is dark and in a place which pretty much looks empty, like people used to live in this area and don't anymore. Its very old and mysterious, theres no sound until a mysterious man is getting chased by 3 cars that the audience has absolutly no idea as to why. The fact the start is set when its dark fits in well with the film, this is because the killer kills people when they sleep so being chased in the dark gives off the impression thats why he does it at night. 1 min into the video we are shown a shot of the sign 'Elm st' and then shots of a normal streat with houses and people living in it, which is simular to the start of the trailer but the difference is people are living in this street and its not abandend.

Everyones dressed in light normal colours which is different to the villain who is wearing black and cant see his face, he also has blades on his hands to make him seem a little more abnormal and know somethings not right about this character and recognise straight off his the killer. There is a shot at 1.17 minutes which looks like an old factory/store room which keeps coming up in the trailer so its showing that this place must have a big part within the film, almost have a link to the villian. Also within the trailer you get disturbing images which are stereotypical of horror, its to make the audience feel at edge yet interested, an example is young girl is at a funeral with scratch lines down her clothes, they use children shows their innocence with the harsh realities of what happens to the victims.

Sound: The start of the trailer has heavy breathing which shows there is panic within the character which leaves the audience wondering whats going on, why is there panic? With the breathing you can also hear quick footsteps like someones running and you hear this before you see the actual character running away from cars. Suddenly there is a loud bang and thats when the music kicks in, its got a fast paced and goes with the man running, the sound of cars hitting there breaks aswell gives off the fact everythings in a panic rush. Already by 28 seconds the sounds and music has made the trailer seem very action-packed. Suddenly thats when we get talking, its not a voice over its the characters we here the mans name 'Kruegar' and whilst one of the chasers is banging on the door you here him say "come on you sick basterd" this already shows you he is a victim and has done something wrong to upset people, as he was mentioned as being a "sick bastard". Also you get a sence of feeling sorry for the man being chased as he says "what did i do, i didn't do anything" whilst this dramatic music builds up as one of the chasers is about to throw a can of petrol with fire on it through the window as you hear glass smash. There is a quick sudden silence after the dramati sound whilst the building is setting alight, then a caption appears in red, and then there are 4 quick shots with a loud beat to everyone that appears, with talking over about the villian. Then it goes into a longer shot of the sign of 'Elm st' and has singing of children, which is peaceful with an echo yet makes the audience slightly worried, there is a regular beat in time with the childrens singing that sounds like footsteps, this gives the impression that something bad is coming. Inbetween these sounds there is loud crashes, screaming of women etc. There is a silence for a quick second then it makes the audience jump with a scratching screechy noise of the vilians hand scraping across something metal. After there are short shots of different scenes and bad things happen to the characters, throughout this there is a heart beat sound everytime it changes to a different shot, and talking over it one is with a man saying "don't fall asleep" which is very important because thats when the villian will come and get you.
Towards the end there is lots of screaming, bangs, noises then the last thing you hear is a scream then a sudden thud noise with the title coming up on screan with the villian saying "you have nothing to worry about" when there clearly is and you finally see abit of the villians face before going onto another caption. Which is really effective as it says "dont fall asleep".