Research on Film Trailers

To kick-start my research on film trailers I decided to get the top 3 highest rated and successful Thriller films and analyse the trailers and what made them so successful. I decided to do this because we are planning on making our film trailer fit the thriller genre. These were the top three trailers and a little paragraph on what I thought about them and what stood out.


1) The highest rated thriller film on IMDB currently is The Dark Knight (2008), directed by Christopher Nolan. The main thing I noticed which gave an impact on me was the violence and action scenes and how creative and cinematic they were. The cinematography shown throughout the trailer really gives off a perfect "real life" Batman effect. The colour grading is the same thought being very yellow in the day and very blue at the night.



2) The second film on the list is Inception (2010), directed by Christopher Nolan. Inception is a very moving film and the trailer really promotes that. The music from Hans Zimmer really compliments the action and even though it is quite a serious film in general the trailer ends with quite a funny clip of a man using a grenade launcher.

3) The silence of the Lambs is on of my personal favourites so I had no hesitation to delve deep into this trailer. The first thing that caught my attention was the amount of close up shots of Hannibal Lector staring into the camera. This stare makes the audeince feel uncomfortable as if it was them interviewing him and not Clarice. The whole trailer has a very earie vibe.