Devil - Official Trailer [HD]

As all film trailers it starts off with the logos of the company’s involved in the film. This includes Universal, MRC and also chronicles which are all huge contributors of making the film Devil and other productions.

The first is what looks like the camera is scanning across the sea but there is no main focus so this shot makes us feel very dizzy, and this is also the opening scène is the actual film. Then all of a sudden the camera tilts upwards to show what looks like New York sky line but upside down. I feel that the reason they have put the skyline upside down is because everything is going to go wrong and maybe its not an ordinary day.
The first caption reads ‘On an ordinary day’. This is just establishing that there is nothing going on that anyone knows about just yet but also doesn’t give to much away. The music is very quite and again doesn’t give to much away yet setting up the tension for later in the trailer.

This is a very quick cut into a woman walking across a reception. The mes-en scène shows us that they are obviously in a work place in the city and by the way she is walking very confidently through the reception it seems like she works there. The words ‘do I look like such a threat’ gives us a little insight into who may be the attacker or who may be dangerous and they may be covering it up. She seems like a Fanfatale innocent on the outside but not so angelic on the inside.

As the same music carries on the next caption says ‘Our life’s are filled’ and the then next ‘With chances encountered’, ‘And random Events’ , ‘But Today’, this gives us an idea that the film is based on chances and maybe destiny.

The shots of 5 men and woman fade in and out showing different expressions and camera angles. This shows us the main characters and a little about there background by the clothes there wearing, the confidence they have in this certain building. Then there is another slow fades shot into a man and women turning around looking into an open lift.

The next shot shows the four main characters in the lift while the lift is closing but as the doors are closing someone says ‘could you hold that please’. As the man in the suit says sorry there’s no room the other man we see saw earlier hold the door with his hand and his response sarcastically ‘thanks for your help’ already makes tension between the characters in the group.
The same music is still playing to keep the quiet atmosphere going.

After another caption the camera looks like it fly’s into the building air vent from the top of the sky scrapper. This is a very clever and different angle to use in a trailer which is always good as it gives us a different dimension to the screen. The camera shot keeps going through the vent and into the slot for the lift. The words ‘everything, happens, for, a, reason’ appear across the lift and as we go through or pass the words we come into the same lift with the same characters as before.
The music cuts as we arrive in the lift and see that the lift breaks down. This is the turning point in the trailer and makes us feel the genre of the film (Horror). The quick cut into a low angle of the building in what looks like a storm coming again shows us that something unkind is about to arrive just like a storm.

The film directors are clever by showing that the lift that is stuck is the 6th lift, and the saying going that the devil comes through the 666 so this is a very interesting way to show the devil is among them without being obvious way.

The director fades some of the characters faces in the cuts and then they have a black out where a sound effect comes in. This sound affect makes the audience a little on edge and then the lights come on and a dazed young woman seems hurts, this is another turning point to the trailer where everything starts going wrong.

The trailer leads onto the other passengers suspecting one man into thinking he was the one that hurt the girl which give the audience something to think about and keep the story line as a surprises as in the film it doesn’t turn out to be him. A few shots of the outside building in the storm enhance the bad atmosphere in the trailer, also the mid shots of the lift not being able to open shows that the characters are not going anywhere soon.

The captions ‘One of theses five people aren’t who they say they are’ gives us an indication that its one of the main characters and nothing outside. This makes the audience suspect each and every one of them while they watch the trailer and film. This is a good way of showing the audience that it won’t just be an obvious story line.

The music kicks in at some point and also the cuts get a lot shorter so that they don’t tell the whole story line in the trailer. The shots show us that its everyone for them self in that lift, there’s nothing or no one to help them. The horror genre really conveys at this fast turning point of the trailer.

The best part of the trailer for me is when they use the sound effects of the lift to change the fading shots. This is a really clever part of the film as it makes the audience feel that the trailer is slowing and claming down when its really just building up the suspense

With a trailer you always remember the first and last shot and I feel that with the last shot the audience will really remember this as it makes you jump because it’s so unexpected after a quiet few shots before.

The whole devil trailer is good by the way they use there music, shots and sound affects to capture the audience.