A trailer I found interesting

This is the remake of the 1976 film 'The Omen' which has been slightly twisted to be 'The Omen' 666 trailer. The reason for this is that they released it on the 6th of June in 2006.

Typical horror conventions are presented in 'The Omen' trailer, through the classic iconic inocence of a young boy called Damien. Damien was adopted by Robbert and Katherine, after their first newborn child died not long after birth. Robert makes a wild decision to adopt Damien, and tell his wife that he was their biological child and was determined to raise him as their own, in secret.

In this trailer Damien represents typical conventions of horror. To beggin with, in the trailer the setting is very isolated and cold, he is in a busted down park, with only a dog to keep him company. The setting looks to be in a more surburban locations, where the sense of isolation is more apparent. The scene in the park, is to make the viewer feel that even through his iconic inocence, that something deep lies beneath. This is a classic way in which horror conventions work, and it is called the binary opositions, where a childs inocence is soon twisted to be evil and possed by the devil. Which, when this film was first released in 1976, was a huge hit for horror (Satan.)

Many types of technical codes are represented in the trailer. Through the camera work we get a narror depth of field to beggin with to show that the only company Damien has is a dog. When the camera beggins to become almost handheld, we get an arching movement around damien, which refers back to the binary opostion theory, where Damien is sat on a swing, to show that it should be inocent, but as the music and the dark misterious setting is also apparent, it flips the thought you get of a young boy, and makes it a typical technical code for horror. This flip of identity's for little boys, is further twisted as Damien at the end of the trailer smiles at you. A little boy smiling at you should be inocent, but due to the anxiety that the trailer produces, it makes you feel uncomftorable and on edge. When adding sound to the trailer, they mostly use ambient sound. They dont offer a lot of variety of it, but i think that is what makes the trailer more frightening, you get a mixture of the dog panting, the wind, and the swing squeeking all the way through. The only non-digetic sound we get is when Damien looks towards camera, where we get some notes from an instrument to make the moment feel more intense.