Qualitative Trailer Research

Nightmare on elm street is another classic slasher film which was popular at the time and still is it is a 1984 American slasher film and was directed by Wes Craven . The trailer for the film begins with the green card followed by the supporting card which we found was evident in many of the developing slasher films of the time so we tried to include those cards as well by creating our own green card and an in association card for our trailer. The change in sound is clear in this trailer as it changes when someone is being killed, the pace of the sound changes dramatically from one sort to another and the cuts to the sound are also clear which is evident in our trailer. We found that with slasher films from the time the integration of the sound and images create the meanings attached to the shots. The pace in sound is important in horror films as in its trailers there is an informal structure to the build up and slowing down of the trailer, the sound builds up with the action in the shots and mid way through the trailer both increase in time and go back down yet sometimes there will be a smaller sort of jump right towards the end but all end slow.

This is a the trailer for Nightmare on Elm Street;