Jide's Textual Analysis Of Saw 3 Teaser Trailer

Saw 3D is said to be the last of the ghastly Saw film series created by director Kevin Greutert most of the Saw films have received average feedback of around 3-3.5 out of 5. But what could be said from the masterpiece of a teaser trailer.

The Saw film is of a horror genre but the sub genre would be of a mixture of survival and psychological horror as it has characters beliefs, eerie sound effects and a normal human being, whose horrific identity is not revealed until the end, which is of a psychological. It also has survival

Editing- The sound of the music composes very well with the editing and are very much in pace of the teaser trailer. At the beginning the teaser only seems to show a black background with text which would in a sense create suspense as the audience will wonder what is going on or wonder what this next chapter of the film’s story line will be about which in sense most likely make the audience will want to watch more of the teaser. It then seems to fade out into showing parts of the trailer of the film with an eerie music being played follow by a narrator speaking. What is also good about the editing is that the music seems to stop when the narrator is talking but when the narrator stops talking it restarts which makes the trailer look very professional.

Mise-En-Scene- There is four types of Mise-En-Scene which are props, lights, camera, non verbal communication and setting. Well in the teaser I could safely say that there are no props used as most of the time in the trailer the actors will be in a situation where they are locked up or trapped, this may be because this is a horror film which suggests that most of the time the actors will be defenceless and the whole part of them not using props is because this fits well with the genre. The lighting used in the teaser is mainly low key lighting as it fits well with the genre of a horror movie, it being a dark, cold place in the middle of nowhere and there being traps and puzzles everywhere in the dark to create a lot of tension between the audience which could build them up to get them scared. The setting in the teaser shows it to be in a period of the 21^st century.

Sound- The sound in the trailer is very much on point with the video as the slides show the eerie music is played right in sync with it, a loud noise is also played during the slide until the video clip is played but as soon as the next slide comes in the sound restarts this brings about a sharp sense of trepidation among the audience. The only sounds used are non diegetic and sound bridge.

Camera shots- There are quite a number of camera shots used such as in the beginning their is the wide shot used which shows where the action is taking place, there is also an mid shot shown when an actor is in trouble, long shot where an female actor is shown to be in trouble, a close up to show actors fear and facial expressions, reaction shot as a actor responds to a sudden trap, and finally a high angle shot to make actors look small insignificant and vulnerable.