Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Trailer Review

Name of Film: Dawn of the Dead

Year Released: 2004

Genre Of Trailer : Horror

The trailer shows what is about to happen in the film with a calm evening in a small American town and then when the sun rises, the world has been taken over by zombies and only a few humans have survived. The trailer shows the main characters in the film and also loads of shots of the zombies to emphasise how important the zombies are in the movie.

The positive aspects about this trailer is that it starts with a slow build up to get across to the audience who the final girl is in the film. Quick montage is also used to emphasise the panic of the zombies attacking. The trailer also shows most of the main characters in the film, but doesn’t reveal much about them so the audience has to watch the film to find out more about the characters.

The negative aspects about this trailer is that too much of the plot is given away, so when people watch the film they will know roughly what is about to happen during the film. There was also not enough gore used in the trailer and too much action so when people watch the trailer they’ll think it is an action film and not a horror. There were also too many fades and the font used wasn’t that great which may put off horror fans as the font may not be horror enough to suit the target audience of the film.


The overall class average of the film was 6.5 because it was a decent trailer but It didn’t use enough horror in the trailer so it doesn’t come across as a horror film and it attracts the wrong sort of audience for the film.

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