Research: The Shining Trailer

The Shining has alot of short, quick clips that show quite alot of the action but it does give quite alot away about what is going to happen in the film. For example, at the beginning the storyline is revealed before you see any of this 'action'. Also throughout the trailer there are a lot of fade-ins and fade-outs into the next clips, this helps create the tension within the trailer instead of just cutting to the next scene. There is tension also created in the middle of the trailer as the clips start getting faster and shorter as more action happens and as the trailer goes on. 


At the start of the trailer there are a number of establishing shots just showing the setting that the film is. Shortly after this, there are quite a lot of short clips showing what happened in the house before with the man walking up the drive with an axe which makes you think that the film will be based around this. This is similar to when films use the 'based on true stories' line to entice their audience. Then we meet the family that are going to be living in the house and the audience automatically know that something bad is going to happen. Then the quick shots start as the tension rises, during the quick shots there are a lot of long black shots that are followed by short, quick clips of action. The music in the trailer also helps to build up the tension as its quite dramatic and fast.