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Nightmare on Elm’s Street… Fight Club… The film promoted in the trailer is clearly a The genre seems quite mixed, horror- because of the fact there seems to be probably an action/ thriller – action an obvious life threat against various victims is implied through the use of by a crazed villain- a usual convention seen here in then- While Nightmare Some differences on Elm’s Streetyouis to hit me as dialogue ‘I want horror films. There appears toverybestraightforward a sense of in being a horror (which hard most as youwould can’know and the scenes of bit more included complicated. mystery at the villain’s identityfrom butthe it isoriginal more film) Fight Club is a fighting in the trailer. the film is the an action, a case of waiting for it to be The audience is left unclear of whether. However, trailer makes the film a mixture also connotates revealed/something to happenthriller ratherorthan the of both. Leaving it unclear out to be a psychological thriller audience trying to work it out themselves (a mystery within the film. through use of doctors and the reveal convention usually seen in thrillers). of ‘insomnia’ and the main character not being able to sleep.

Nightmare on Elm’s Street…. The trailer uses a variety of shots, including…. Fight Club… The trailer also uses a variety of shots, such as… -Two shots- of the narrator/ Tyler Durden to Mid shot- to establish important establish their close relationship and that they Really, both of the trailers are similar in terms of camerawork. characters within the film are theto main characters of the film They both use various shots seen regularly in films establish different things, such as relationships of -High character, Close ups- to show emotion and angle and Low angle shots- to establish emotions etc. Nightmare on Elm’s street does which use thecharacters are in control, who is the more heighten character’s fear camerawork to create an element of mystery to the villain's one etc dominant Low angle- to show power ofidentitythe such as extreme close ups (regular conventions seen villain and establish his control over - Shot Reverse Shots- to show exchanged in horrors). the victim dialogue within the film, mainly important pieces that relate to the plot- and the relationships between certain characters (hero/villain etc)

Nightmare on Elm’s Street… The music…. Fight Club… The music overall is tense and fast paced. The music at the beginning of the trailer is fast it leaves us wondering what is going to paced and sets the tone of the film. Ittoisbeclear a that music is more important or recognisable in happen next horror- we wonder what is going to. Nightmare happen… on Elm Street’s trailer than in Fight Club’s. It and gives audiences the idea the film will be full of action and have helps tomusic set the tone, genre and mood of the film being We also have kind of ‘religiously’ themed plenty of twist of turns in the plot. to hint at a sub genre of religion- it makes the directly to the audience while Fight Club’s promoted audience scared as we are dearly with background music is less memorable because it relied on supernatural and unexplained themes, such as and camera work to tell the story than music. dialogue ghosts and spirits Children singing- can be seen as very sinister or ‘creepy’ to audiences- heightening the fact the trailer is promoting a horror film

Nightmare on Elm’s Street… The dialogue included in the trailer tells us the film will certainly be a horror… Fight Club… The dialogue really gives us an insight into the plot and themes of the film…. ‘She ruined everything’- a villain ruining our hero’s life, character relationships etc. ‘Oh my god!’- tells us something has gone Leaves the audience to question who wrong, someone is scaredbut we left uses dialogue for two different reasons. . So both thearetrailers ‘she’ is wondering why Nightmare on Elm’s Street uses it more to set the mood/tone of theat afilm itself and establish genre, while Fight Club uses ‘Ruleitnumber 1 of Fight Club: you DO ‘Wake up!’ – gives hints psychological more to establish thus talk about Fight Club’ sounds theme within the filmlinking with plot points and character relationships, NOT strict, like a secret society/group – audience to the characters and making them dreams/nightmares andconnecting questioningthereality. makes us wonder what ‘Fight Club’ is… want to see what happens to them.

Nightmare on Elm’s Street… Fight Club… A lot of titles here… There were only two titles we recognised in the trailer… ‘From the director of Seven’ – will catch people’s attention, So, bothgenre, trailersand havethevery different usesfilm. for inter titles and popular ‘don’t fall asleep’- helps establish credits-‘Brad Pitt’- well known and popular actor, will bring audiences to psychological aspects of the film- to so with While Nightmare on Elm’s Street uses the film see thetitles filmlinking with thetoname alone. sleep, dreams and nightmares etc and it’s genre/subgenres, Fight Club uses the titles ‘Edward Norton’popular American actor from films such as ‘The title of the film itself- deliberately claw marks toareattract audience attentionmention of well Illusionist’ and ‘The Incredible Hulk’ slashed across the screen-known the iconic of the are likely stars claws and directors to persuade audiences to villain, Freddy, and it putsgo fear ‘Helena Bonham Carter’well known English actress for films such and into watchtheit audience. if they have enjoyed they’re previous works. as ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘Harry Potter’ The title of the film is also put at the end, as always, to leave viewers waiting until the end to The name of the film- again left to the end to leave audience’s see the title of the film. watching it until the end. It is also iconically carved into soapsuggesting it to be an important prop and linking directly to the film.

Nightmare on Elm’s Street… Remake of an original film – Those Fight Club… ‘Brad Pitt’ - well known, very popular actor. His name attached to who enjoyed previous films will be more the trailer is likely to bring people to likely to see whether this film is as itself to andsee the film. (because of good/better than original. So While Nightmare’s on Elm’s street focuses on thethefilmcinema characters to sell to the audience, Fight Club focusesprevious on the people films- Seven, the who actually made the film, like director David Fincher and actorof Jesse James) Assassination Brad Pitt to persuade people to think they will enjoy the film advertised. Iconic horror character- Freddy- Those who like the character and the films he has been featured in will be more likely to go see the film if they know it revolves around him. ‘Director of Seven’ - Popular thriller/horror film- will persuade people who enjoyed the director’s previous film to see this one. In the top 100 best Thriller’s of all time on www. IMDB. com (ranked 10 th)