Wolf Creek trailer

The shots in this trailer start off very simple with some close up's to introduce the different characters and their facial expressions. As the trailer progresses some shots become very interesting, especially at 0:12 seconds in which is a mid shot with a hole in what looks like a blanket, which shows a car driving towards it. There is then a long shot as the car drives away into the distance. Following on from this there is a close up of one man's face, but the effect on the camera is that of a video camera, so he is recording himself. This is interesting as it gives a different perspective to the audience watching the trailer as not everything is being filmed by someone else. There is also a shot from inside the car they are travelling in, which shows a close up of a sign saying 'Wolf Creek Crater.' This is effective as we see the same perspective as the characters who are about to go through this nightmare. There is then a close up shot of a car with it's bonnet up which suggests that their car has broken down, so they are now stranded in the middle of nowhere.

There are some intertitles through this film, for example 'it was the journey of a lifetime' which gives the idea that something really exciting and good happens, which is completely wrong as this is a horror trailer. 'But in the middle of nowhere' is the next intertitle we see, which suggests that they are going to end up somewhere, that their screams for help will not be heard, so the result is that they will be doomed. 'The last thing they expected' 'was company' this tells us that they are not alone, and this person could be either good or bad. 'Based on true events' makes us frightened as this film actually happened to someone, and sometimes that makes a horror film 100x more scary.

The pace of this trailer is quite slow, so that we are introduced to characters and settings, and so that tension is slowly building. When the bad guy is introduced the scene pace increases so that we do not fully understand everything that is happening, and we are on the edge of our seats trying to figure out everything that happens.