When a Stranger Calls Teaser Trailer

When a stranger calls is a good teaser trailer to show all the conventions of a good teaser trailer. The beginning of the teaser trailer firstly sets the scene, with the long drive up to the house where the girl is baby sitting. Because the house is set far away from other houses, and the time of day that the film is shot we can automatically see that the film is going to be a thriller or a horror. The main character also is a girl, again showing this representation among horrors of females being the weaker gender. The diagetic noise of the telephone ringing from the beginning also gives a creepy and suspicious feel to the film. The Inter titles between shots also help towards the genre of the film, with things like " she thought it would be a quiet night". The lighting in the shots gives a major indication to the film and that something scary is going to happen. There’s lots of fades between the shots, and also lots of close ups of the telephone gives a big indication to the plot and narrative. The music builds up and gets louder as the drama and action begins to take place in the teaser trailer, the cuts between the shots become more quicker and fast paced also. the ring of the telephone also keeps playing to, with action and cuts between each ring. Inter titles also begin to show, with words like alone, isolated, trapped, all on a red background with red being iconography of danger. The words " you cant escape the terror" also come up again, and from then the action becomes so quick its so hard for the audience to see what is going on, almost in a blinking action, therefore making the audience watching the teaser trailer to then want to go and see what happens. The trailer is 1.43 seconds a little longer than a conventional teaser trailer, so if the length was shortened it would the perfect teaser trailer. The effect of the quick pace editing, diagetic noise from the ringing of the phone and the lighting all add to the feeling and the emphasis on the thriller film.