Trailer Research - Trailer Conventions

For this task, I was asked to look at trailer conventions for a horror trailer. I watched the trailer without sound, so I could focus on the visual features of the horror trailer. This helped understand how important sound is in a horror trailer. It helps creat suspense and jump scares more frightening. Sound can also help audiences identify genres. For example, a horror trailer would use fear inducing music and sound to show what genre in is. From completing this task I would like to use eerie, fear inducing music to spike my audience with uncertainty and fear. Also the music and sound will help the audience discover that it is a horror trailer.