Quarantine's genre is thriller/horror it follows the main conventions of a film trailer, the opening shot is of the film 'company screen gems' the red font against a black background can conotate what sort of film genre it is for example red connotes blood and violence. The plot is about a reporter making a documentary on the fire department they are called out to a building of houses were there has been an incident with a woman not been seen. However when they break into her room they are greeted with something with someone far less then normal. As the narrative progresses the building gets sealed of and the people trapped inside and quarantined within this building.
Through out the trailer between cuts texts are shown the beginning one is "authorities have denied any knowledge of the incident" this gives the audience another idea of what this film may be about. This quotation implies that what ever has happened was a major event possibly fatal event. The following quotation are telling the audience a story as well as showing the footage. “what happened that night…Has never been explained… Until now”. These texts are shown in a bold font is white which contrasts with the black background making them stand out.
As the footage in the trailer turns to night vision of green so does the font style of and colour. “This year… witness the shocking truth you are not meant to see” These two texts are shown in a smaller less bold font but there is a green fuzzy wave that appears with it. As we have already been told that this event has never been explained before the green wave has a connotation of paranormal creatures. The audience could read into the colour change that the film may hold something that isn’t ‘normal’ creature that we would usually be faced with. This is explained at the end of the trailer.
In traditional horror trailers the protagonist isn’t shown in great detail for example you may see a second clip of the thing but not a huge amount of footage is focused on the character/s. What you are shown is the after event a consequence of what the thing has done. In Quarantine an example of thins is the person falling to the floor we the audience don’t know what has happened to him but from the previous footage of a creatures face we have an idea that this has something to do with it.
The music starts of quiet with a few key sound effect of the fuzzing this only happens when the camera interference is shown. As the action progresses so does the music as it cuts with the action. When scary bits of the film are presented like the creatures face there is a high frequency buzzing noise this is done to make the audience jump as the sound has been quiet up to that point.
The film trailer Quarantine influences a lot of my work as it is filmed on a hand held camera which is the effect I want on my work. I like this effect because it places the audience within the film action. Some key point i like and would like to use are:
In the opening shots there is the date March 11, 2009 this immediately places the audience within the film. Adding verisimilitude as the audience know the date that this happened on.
I like the effect of night cam so your not seeing the action/danger directly which has the audience in suspense as they are not knowing what is going to happen next.
The fuzzing noise effect between cuts emphasises that it is filmed on a hand held camera.
I like that it is filmed on a hand held camera it gives the audience the effect of being in the film were the action takes place. It also has the effect of seeing it through someone else’s view point.
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