Research and Planning: Teaser Trailer Analysis

Saw 7

0:07 a long shot is used to set the scene in a city of tall buildings keeping a calm atmosphere.0:08 it is taken to a black screen representing the horror genre with text saying "the time has come" in capital letters of silver colour attracting the audience to surprise them with fear. 0.10  the city is shown again in a long shot but with people walking, hanging around not expecting anything horrificly huge to happen and the shot is speeded up in a diagonal crab movement to get the audiences attention to something surprisingly spooky and on 0:11 another black screen comes up with text saying "for all to experience" in capital letters of silver colour.

0:13 a busy front of a building is shown in a medium long shot and with a fast crab movement to the right focusing to a freaky window display. 0:15 in a medium close up people are walking past it and 1 man is looking at it with a confused face expression of fear making a turn facing it, then in a close up shot another face expression is shown of shock from a women who's wearing red to represent the color of blood and others are behind her with similar face expressions, then in 0:16 quickly with fade edits another guy in red with people near him has a confused face expression showing he doesn't know what's about to happen. The speed of these shots of people shown builds up the excitement from the fear. A black screen follows with text saying "the las act" in capital letters, silver font informing the audience as it's the last it could be the best of these horror "Saw" plots.

0:17-0:22 fast close up shots are shown of two men in the window display and the passing people watching them in fear. Diegetic sound is used when one man shouts "help us" through the window as he's scared of the situation he's in, close up shot focuses the death trap the 2 men are in, both are frightened which is showed through their face expressions and quick body movement from their frustration of trying to free themselves. Close up is shown of one of their hands aswell to focus on him been chained to a dangerous machine. Camera flash editing with non-diegetic sound effects of it is used to focus the audience to the bizarre situation the 2 men are in of their death trap. Birds eye view is used to notice the many shocked/terrified faces of the people watching. A lot of shot reverse shot is used to build the fear in the audience and tention.

0:23 follows another blackout shot with silver text in capital letters saying "of a legend" intersting the audiece to the suspicion in the horror genre. Then a fade in effect shows a close up of the "Jigsaw" man looking at someone in a scary way. 0:24 a big close up is shown of a small tv playing the video recording of Jigsaw a scary looking doll, this is a typical character of horror. 0:25 it goes back to the people infront the window display of the 2 men in their horrible situation in a medium long shot, next in a medium close up 2 mannequins are displayed with an active saw machine inbetween them making a digetic sound of the screeching machine to make the audience jump, then it leads to a close up shot of the people watching and amongst them 2 women have their hands infront their mouth to show they're horrified which then follows a really quick blackout edit into 0:28 where 1 of the man in the display is struggling in terror to release himself, this is shown through his fast reactions and his red face on a close up shot. Leading on from that some policeman rush past the watchers which at the left bottom corner of the medium close up shot a women is identified who by the face expression is scared with disgust with the hint of her opened mouth. Next the saw machine is in a big close up shot moving towards the audince making screeching diegetic sounds to put the audience in terror aswell as the watchers who are in the background of the shot.

0:29 a back screen with text in capital letters of silver font says "this halloween" with a a spooky khaki green mist around it and a hook linked to a chain shatters glass to bits launching them towards the audience to put them in fear. An edit of 3 different small shots with the tint of blue comes up in 0:32, this creates a spooky effect and builds tention in the audience when one guy screams which is a diegetic sound. 0:34-0:37 an extreme close up shot focuses on a particular part of a machine making turning movements does a fast cut to a swirly red and white target spinning fast to allow the audience think what is happening, nect anothe fast cut is made to a frightened, breathless man locked up in a broken car to let the audience know something scary is about to happen. another fast cut is made to birds eye view to focus on a women and a man who could fall into their death trap, their danlging leg moving shos they're terrified, next on a cose up shot the man lets go and falls down to his terrible death. Black screen follows with silver text in capital letters saying "witness the final cut" and shattered glass flying towards the audience and faded still big close up shot of the saw machine, it leads to a meaning of this being the most horrific of the "Saw"movies.

0:40-0:45 a big close up shows a light turning on to grab the audiences attention to more horrror scenes, the follow up shot is of a strange machine on the ceiling in a close up shot then to a medium shot shows a guy trapped in a cage being pulled away from the screen to show something awfully scary is bound to happen to him. In differnt types of shot that man around his death trap is shown building tention of the audience, big close up is shown of the spikey death trap he could fall in.

0:51-0:53 shows a sharp saw parts flying across the screen above the audience at a cinema room to bring the fear in the adience watching the trailer with the ones in the shot. 0:53 a long shot focusing on a fiery blast coming out of a warehouse to scare the audience. 0:56 a big close up in a high angle shot shows the fear in a women's face from her sweating, screaming and her widely opened eyes as she is about to die from the machine slowly moving towards her face.

1:00 a medium close up shot is shown of a person in a creepy pig face mask. Lighting is on the person in the mask to make the shot look scary when focusing on the creepiness and having no light on both sides of the creepy mask person. 1:04-1:08 a lot of fast cutting is used to show differnt people in their death traps building up the fear in the audience. 1:04 a man strapped to a wall is zoomed into to show that the guy is getting more na d more terrified. 1:14 high angle shot is shown of the powerful, dangerous machine moving towards the victim. 1:15 the women is zoomed into to focus on her getting scared and diegetic sound of her gasping shows it too.

0:07 is where diegetic sound of background music begins to play starting with bell noises, creepy wind noises in 0:11, bells agin at 0:12 and the music building up at 0:15 to emphasise on the death trap situation. 0:17 the music jumps using a non-diegetic sound. 0:18-0:19 diegetic sound of the 2 men groaning and squirming reflects their terrified feeling. 0:21 sharp non-digetic sound effect is put on to build tention in the audience, it sounds like an active saw machine. 0:25-0:26 Jigsaw speaks in a creepy voice, this is a diegetic sound. 0:33-0:43 Jigsaw speaks again in his freaky voice. 0:54-1:11 the "Saw" theme tune is played in th background as a non-diegetic sound building up the tention in the audience throughout the end of the trailer. 1:08 Jigsaw says "game over" which is a diegetic sound meaning the film has with a lot of scary games involved grabbing the attention of the audience.



The Expendables

0:00-0:01 is a big close up of Sylvestor's face showing his roughness indicating he's the leading man, then a straight cut goes into a medium close up of Arnold talking like he's the decision maker. This is a diegetic sound of his voice. Next 5 quick big close up shots introduce "the team of legendary warriers.." as the voice over commentates, this is a non-diegetic sound in 0:04-0:06. This then leads to a big close up of a gun in someone's hand who is shooting away, the gun/bullet noise is a diegetic sound. 0:07 is a long shot of a war going on and the setting exploding, next a straight cut goes into a medium long shot of a plane flying in the darkening sky. The war is represented by the army vehicles and uniform. 0:17 shows a guy leg going down to the ground to kick another guy to get him to fall down, in the background 2 other men are already collapse on the ground. 0:20-0:21 a diegetic sound comes in of a man saying "come on let's see what you got" to mean he is ready to begin a bit of action, in this close up shot shows that the 2 guys are about to start a fight or something similiar related to violence. As it is a 2 shot it's showing an enemy connection between the 2 of them. 0:25 is a birds eye view of one man smacking another man to the ground, this angle is focusing on the action between the 2 men.  0:26 a low angle shot points out that the man lifting the other man is in power. 0:36 is a long shot of the action "warriers" walking in line next to each other towards the screen and dead bodies all over the warehouse showing that they have accomplished their mission. 0:43-0:45 is first a man in his uniform shooting upwards at something off the screen, then follows a medium close up of the top of a tower exploding in the night sky which emphasises on the explosion as it is a birght orange colour.