Cabin in the woods

Director: Drew Goddard

In this trailer you can see immediately that it starts with a group of friends excited to go on a get away with each other, later on you begin to see things go wrong like people dying and there is alot of violence. You could see that each one of the characters has their own identity: The character with the glasses appeared to look like the intelligent character of the group because of the stereotypical look that is used, where as the other short haired character could of been described as an athlete because in one of the shots he is holding an American football. The male character with the longer hair could be described as a fool because of his attitude, where in the same category he could be called a druggy as he also appears to be rolling up something to smoke an the van. Now there are the other two female characters who have conflicting identities where the blonde one could be said to be a whore because of her body language, where as the other female character doesnt want to be in the spotlight and you dont see much of her so she could be described as the more innocent character.

The sound in the trailer tells us how the mood changes later on there is three different kinds of sounds this is because at the beginning it has a more cheery mood like it would be when a group of friends go off to go have a break with each other this is clearly the point where everything is ok, the way the music changes to a more mysterious sound even though you can still see things are ok, this shows that they are oblivious to the fact that something is going on and then a rock type of music comes on and tells us that things have become dangerous and violent. This is what you expect from a thriller trailer, however the sub-genre of the thriller is horror so it means that the thriller has to be more gruesome, thrillers are originally violent but with horror genre they are usually more out of the ordinary and gory. What you can expect from the film from the trailer will be lots of death.

In the trailer the scenes go from the group of friends to a different set of people at some kind of controls, in two different occasions you see the actions of people change, examples are when the athletic characters says they should stick together, the editing then went off the group for a while and then back to the friends again where you heard the characters opinion change and him then telling everyone to split up this would be a little suspicious when you hear someone's opinion change so quickly. What you can assume from this is that the characters are being manipulated without them having a single idea about it, this gives the mystery of who is doing the manipulating which drifts us over to the thriller genre.

The text in the trailer tells us that they dont know what is going on as it tells us that they believe everything is alright but nothing really is. The way the colour of the background of the text changes from yellow being a more innocent colour basically quite a neutral colour to red a colour that relates to violence it could connote blood and rage, the thing that gives this away is the fact that it changes colour when everything starts to go wrong there.

The setting is the basic setting of a horror but it follows a kind of thriller like storyline looking at the trailer you could see, the setting involves a derelict like gas station where the guy is mysterious and intimidating and after that they go into the basic scenery of some woodland and an old house with a strange interior, for example the window that the intelligent character looked through which the innocent character believed to just be a mirror in the other room. This shows that there are some secrets to the cabin which you would find strange.