Although there is a difference between trailers and teaser trailers in terms of length, they both share the same purpose as advertising tools. We could not find any teaser trailers based on these films but because normal trailers are not a lot diffferent to teasers, I did not see this as a particularly big problem.
Throughout my research I focused particularly on any patterns that I could identify in each trailer. From this I would be able to learn the forms and conventions of thrillers especially how they are used to thrill the audience.
1 - Pulp Fiction (1994) -
2 - The Dark Knight (2008) -
3 - Inception (2010) -
4 - Goodfellas (1990) -
5 - Rear Window (1954) -
6 - Psycho (1960) -
7 - The Usual Suspects (1995) -
8 - Leon (1994) -
9- Vertigo (1958) -
10 - The Lives of Others (2006) -
We decided to keep the trailer short, just under one minute in length, where we would use face-paced sound and editing. It just depends on the genre. The purpose of a thriller teaser trailer is to thrill the audience and make them want to see the film for themselves.
These trailers have given me a clear understanding of what thriller trailers involve. It has also given me an insight into how people decode and subvert these trailers in terms of genre, codes, conventions, iconography, context and narrative.
Audiences will be expecting thrillers to give them thrilling sensations. It is the purpose of the thriller genre to do so. Watching sample thriller trailers has been beneficial to our group for inspiring us to challenge and subvert the forms and conventions to create new inventive ways of thrilling our target audience.
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