For my genre analysis i have chosen to do the film The Last House On The Left. The genre of this film is an horror,thriller and drama.The film was directed by Dennis Iliadis and was written by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth. The film is a remake of the 1972 version. The trailer has to identify the three genres so its broken up into three different parts.The trailer identifies the genre of drama straight away the trailer shows the family driving down a long country road it has a non-diegetic sound playing through it and it shows an establishing shot of the town telling us that it is an isolated area with no one around. By showing this tells us that the genre is horror as well because many conventional horrors are based in lonely isolated places. The trailer also tells us that they going away for a holiday as the dad says 'are we there yet,its the last house on the left' saying the films name and also giving us an idea that they don't have any houses near by.
The beginning of the trailer the editing is quite slow and the transition used are mostly dissolved they are slow and soft which shows that there is a calm and clear atmosphere. As the trailer continues it starts taking us into the thriller genre where the tension builds up. The trailer starts cutting from one scene to another. The genre is established for a younger audience,it shows the young girl mary and her friend and a young boy spending time together,but then the non-diegetic music starts to pump up as soon as three older people walk into the scene. Match on action showing them getting dragged and kidnapped into the woods. The trailer is linear showing everything in order. So it gets dark and starts raining which brings back the horror genre because in the rain nothing can be heard.
Near the end of the trailer it brings back the drama genre because it shows a caption on ''what would you do'' but then it straight away goes into thriller because the group of people that assaulted the girls end up in the girl's(mary) house after shooting her,but she appears to be alive and makes her way home too. "taken by trees-sweet child o mine" is the soundtrack used when the scenes starts to cut from one to other showing the parents taking revenge. Once the trailer comes to the end it shows the films name and then continues back into the trailer where the man is lying on a table with his head in a microwave, this keeps us wanting more.
After watching the trailer it shows how the three genres are used throughout and how they don't seem to be done at the same time. The trailer is very interesting it uses soundtracks to help with the scenes. The establishing shot helps show the scene(town) and also the films genre which is horror,thriller and a drama.
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