Other Film Trailers From My Genre

The Ring (2002)

 

Short description from IMDB:
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it

IMDB rating: 7.1

Shots

• Close up - mostly of peoples faces 

• Extreme close up - hand on the door handle, the video tape being put into the video player, little boy drawing the picture and an eye opening are a few examples 

• Establishing shot - the cliff with the building on which is followed by another of a house 

• Two shot - the woman talking to the little boy in the rain 

• Over the shoulder shot - mostly used for conversations 

• Reaction shot - the two girls talking at the beginning, one of them is telling the other about 'the ring' and the consequences of watching it - there is a reaction shot of the girl being told the story's face    

Angles

• Low angle - when the woman is talking to the little boy - who is in bed, when the hand is reaching to touch a girl on the shoulder and the man in the tunnel  

Movement

• Pan - for the establishing shot of the building on the cliff the camera pans up 

• Zoom - there are several zooms included in the trailer for example the camera zooms into the videos on the shelf, on the telephone ringing, there are a few zooms into faces and a very 
fast paced zoom into a tunnel 

Editing

• Eye-line match - the characters watching the tape on the TV

• Shot reverse-shot - mainly when the characters are talking with each other 

Sound 

• Diegetic sound - Dialogue and ambient sound (telephone ringing)

• Non-diegetic sound - Score (added to create an atmosphere)

Mise en scene 

• Location - mainly set in a house 

• Dark and neutral colours are used    

Orphan (2009) 

 

Short description from IMDB: 

A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be

IMDB rating: 7.0 

Shots

• Aerial shot - car driving down road

• Close-ups - used for conversations between characters

• Extreme close-up - hand turning door handle

• Establishing shot - car pulling into car park

• Medium shot

• Two shot

• Point-of-view shot (POV) - Woman looking at a file

• Over the shoulder shot - Children in the room

• Overhead shot - Looking down at Ester when there is the fire in the tree

• Reaction shot - Ester being made fun of by her classmates

Angles

• High angle - looking down at Ester

• Low angle - Ester in the toilet when she's punching and kicking the wall

Movement

• Pan - Ester painting alone in the room
• Track - Woman running after the car
• Zoom - into Ester's face, zoom out of woman on the phone
• Slow motion - Ester walking past the car, woman running after the car

Editing

• Shot reverse shot - conversations

Sound

• Diegetic sound - Dialogue
• Non-diegetic sound - Score

Mise en scene

• Montage