Film trailer analysis: Final Girl (2014)

Final Girl

The scene starts with a fade to black from the production company logo to a young girl having a conversation. The music played in the background are bell like chimes that is usually played during story telling to alert the audience that this is a talk from the past. The bland colour of the walls, single placed table in the middle of the room and the pen and paper suggest they seem to be a police conference room where its known to interrogate the others for information. This notifies that this man seems to have a high job profession in law and that there conversation is important and will draw the audience to find out more.
After the first scene it dips to black and fades the music away to introduce a new soundtrack that is funk which could signify the time setting was in the late 60s-80s.


The reason i done an analysis on this movie was because within our ideas we was thinking of doing a chase or battle between the binary opposition between man vs woman as this movie portrays. I personally feel that this trailer is not that great and that they do some good things yet bad things as well meaning we could learn from what works and does not work. The end pretty much gives away what will happen with the girl showing up with blood and dirt all relaxed and okay in the dinning cafe signifying the battle was won. I could be wrong where theres a big twist at the end, however after reading comments from the trailer itself also mentions this.
Besides the end the suspense they give through the trailer is great and I like the idea showing a past story of the protagonist at the start to show character development and the montage they do in the forest with them also showing parts of her training was nice to see and engaging. I also liked the set in the 60s style with the suits and unique theatre atmosphere at some parts such as 1:01 where the spotlight hits only the victim to make the standout and the villains blacked out to signify her fears of not seeing whats coming next.
Common themes of thriller they displayed through the trailer was the plot is the iconic gifted one from young age made to stop a threat after there training. Character d development is popular in thrillers where the protagonist has to grow to the environment they are placed in such as Hunger Games, Matrix and another new thriller film Predestination. They make good use of the soundtrack to signify the mood and situation along with the SXF such as low bass sound that drops in 1:04 to the next scene to signify that dead was over or even the sound they used for 1:09 using an angelic like sound with a sped up film rewind type of sound in time with the camera speeding up towards her that also uses a spotlight highlight her importance.