Advanced Trailer Analysis

1. In this trailer are certain things that can be represented at a connotative and denotative level, the pier for example; on a connotative level it's just a a normal pier and on a denotative level it represents their guilt and unclarity of what's going on, the pier is spooky at night and you don't know what's in the water.
Also the lipstick on a connotative level is just a normal lipstick with a specific color, on a denotative level it represents blood and in the trailer blood is related to the accident and the supposevly dead person seeking revenge.

 2. The non-verbal communications are being used quite a lot in this trailer, at the beginning they all look happy and they have peace at mind, then from the point where they hit the person with the car they all have worried facial expressions showing guilt,fear and confusion this reinforces the fact that this is a horror/thriller hybrid.

 3. In of the shots at 1:42 minutes the characters can be seen from a crane shot, this makes them look vulnerable,small and isolated as if they're being watched. This emphasizes they're vulnerability.

4. Clothing, props, mise en scene, sets and settings have been used to suit the genre, the teenagers are wearing stereotypical teenagers clothes, they act like teenagers (when they go on the beach at night and tell scary stories for example) you get scenes in parties, the mysterious hunter has a hook, this is a classic prop used in horror movies, he is also wearing dark clothes and you can't see his face, this again suits the genre.

5. The soundtrack starts off with music targeted at a young audience and then as the trailer unfolds the song changes to a more aggressive fast paced song that suits the events happening in the trailer, the same goes with dialogue, at the beginning the characters are calm and talk about things with no meaning and then when the trailer gets serious the tone in their voices change to a worried one, they also talk louder and occasionally scream.

8.In the trailer there are a lot of images that make the iconography like the dead body, the hook or the pier at night these elements are all related to horror thrillers

9. The text fits into the thriller, horror, teen movie genre.  because of the more strongly inserted elements in the trailer so that it stands out more than anything else, the music, the locations, the characters all of those make it really easy to identify what the genre of the movie is.

Representation.

1)  white middle classTeenagers are being represented by the text

2) They are represented as being arrogant, reckless, entitiled, attractive and guilty

3) Hollywood which means that it's likely to attract a specific audience, in this case a white young teenage audience

Genre

1) it's a teen horror thriller hybrid, you can tell from all the elements in the trailer, the fact that it's a young cast, the situation suits the genre very well, the fact that the teenagers are doing things that they shouldn't be doing and that there are consequences for their actions. The locations, from a high school party to a creepy pier. The performance from the characters also help identify what genre it is, in this case you have a lot of people screaming, being scared and very concerned over the issue.