Trailer Conventions

Cabin in the woods(Horror)

• Montage of clips
• Gives brief plot through speech and visual text
• Music- deep, dark both non diagetic and diagetic
• Music-Silent and then hits a big note with next clip
• Skips a lot
• Red and black backgrounds
• Dark scenes
• Screams
• Echoes

American Pie reunion
(Comedy)

• Montage of clips
• Music-Light, happy, non diagetic
• Gives brief outline of plot through speech in the film.
• Humorous
• Voice over

The Lucky One

(Romantic)

• Brief outline of plot
• emtotive music
• Climax
• Chronological
• Names of actors to draw attention