Comparison of Teaser Trailer and Trailer for Final Destination 5

The teaser trailer is fast paced using lots of quick shots to increase pace but uses text in between shots in correspondence with clips to raise tension and give the audience an idea of what the final destination films are about if they have never seen one before being that once someone has seen deaths plan and escaped it you will go back death will find you which is exaggerated in the trailer when the shots are reversed. The teaser quickly establishes the main premise of the film but includes enough action which is cut off to keep the audience interested and wanting to find out more.





Within 20 seconds the trailer is already more detailed than the teaser because the production and distribution companies logos were shown for longer and there was dialogue rather than a line or two that was in the teaser. The trailer shows the laser eye surger situation but the audience is already anticipating something going wrong either due to watching a final destination film before or the fact that the character having laser eye surgery is very anxcious and scared. The extended black screens in between shots raise tension as they extend time which makes the audience anxious and paranoid. As the laser machine starts going wrong the shots get shorter and quicker increasing tension and the beeping of the machiene is amplified to create more tension. The trailer pace then slows down significantly with the use of longer shots as they explain the main plotline of the story through a reccuring character (The coroner from the first final destination film who acts as the voice of reason/death). The trailer then jumps back and fourth in time showing the starts of various accidents death has created whilst still going back to the first disaster on the bridge which makes the audience intrigued as to what happens in each of the accidents. The title then slowly fades in informing the audience but also lulling them into a false sense of security as they think the trailer is over then an additional scene fades in showing a man getting accupuncture. The audience get a hint of something bad happening when an amplified wind sound is played when a candle goes out showing that death is there then the man falls off the bed with a blood curdling scream to really keep the audience interested and talking about the film.

Overall the trailer goes into more detail about the plotline of the film and spends more time showing the audience the accidents which allows the audience to get more invloved in the film compared with a teaser trailer where you are shown everything very quickly and not much about the accidents themselves is given away but still gives the audience a feeling of confusion and intrigue.