Inspiration

To create the trailer we have gathered a variety of inspiration from a range of films and teaser trailers that grabbed our attention. The three films that stood out the most were ‘Seven’, ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Along came a Spider’. All films are based around a similar theme and area of the thriller genre. They are all based on a detective/s exploring and discovering a case based on a range of topics. As a group we decided to base our own film around a detective case as there is so much that we can look at. The ‘Die Hard’ series is great to look at as in each one, a different idea is explored. Whereas ‘A Long Came a Spider’ has a good twist at the end that really captures the audience and is unexpected. But the most inspirational was the film ‘Seven’. We first watched this film in class and straight away it captured us in the prospect that we couldn’t predict what was happing next. This is an aspect of this sub-genre that we feel is extremely important to include. Within thrillers to capture and hold the audience’s attention, you need to be able to keep the suspense and keep them guessing, and this is exactly what ‘Seven’ does. In addition thriller trailers are extremely important in being able to capture the audience straight away to get the audience’s interested to come and see the movie.
From our power points we established a variety of key features that trailers should contain to hopefully be successful. But a couple of things in particular, with regards to thriller trailers, are action, and providing enough information that the audience want to see it, but not to much information that the audience know the story and now don’t need to see the movie. Seven does this very well in the fact that it gets you guessing.
There are a variety of detective movies available that we need to make sure the actual idea and storyline doesn’t clash with other movies. Just like ‘Seven’, as a group we like the idea of a continue murder and wanted to forma idea around this theme. Furthermore we like the idea of two detectives taking on a case.
‘Seven’ is obviously our main form of inspiration, but we would like to take the idea and make it our own.