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There are 2 establishing shots in the trailer, one of the girl sitting in the car and one of the house. This tells us before even watching the rest of the trailer that they are moving into the new house. The wide shot shows the family with the Diegetic sound of 'Home Sweet Home' you feel like the family is normal and has no worries to it. There is a Non-Diegetic sound that is also played that seems like a family song and not nothing anything to worry about. You can see from the other wide shot of the girl standing in her room that they are moving in as she has boxes and no bed sheets etc. giving you a peak of the story line. From the way she is talking and what she is saying 'Besides the fact...' makes us feel sorry for her as with another wide shot you can see all the class students looking at her making us feel how she might not fit in/has no friends etc.

There is many wide shots in the trailer, after the effect of the black screen you can see how there is a divide in the trailer now and this is where it goes downhill. You get to see the sick boy in the bed with the voice over of the mom when its showing letting you know why they moved here, this is when the audience stops feeling sorry for the girl. It gives you an insight to the families life and what it might be like. You can tell that they have sad and depressing life as with the two shot of the mother and son where you can see she is kissing him on the head, you can see how she would do anything as when you can hear the Diegetic sound she says 'I love you more than anything in the world'. There is two close up shots one after another of the daughter and then the mother. You can see the emotion on the girls face and how she seems miserable, the audience may feel like she feels like this as from that shot it cuts to her mom closing the door making us feel how she probably don't get attention with the mom as the mom looking at her has no emotion on her face.

You can hear from the new scene how it starts off with a Diegetic sound, the sound of the boys breathing machine. There is a Non-Diegetic sound that makes the scene more mysterious. It has close ups of the window, showing how its open giving the sound effect of the breeze making us as the audience think someone's broke in causing tension. There's another close up/wide shot of the boy. Its a close up of his face from a upward angle showing him sleeping, you can see a shadow in front of him then you can relate it to the window being open making audience come to conclusions.

You see that with the close up how something's waking the girl up, there's an effect used to cause dramatic effect to create a sense of disorientation how she's just woke up. I'd like to use an effect like this in my trailer flicking through different scary images to create fear. The first real scary scene in the trailer is when there's a close up of the back of the girl closing the window. There's sudden shot clips after that all go after each other going from the flickering of the light to the little girl. Having a long shot to show where she is in the house and what her outfit is etc. You can see that it was her outside James' door answering all the questions of the shadow etc.

There's a wide shot to show the young girl, the main girl and the boy James all there when the girl wants to give him a kiss. You can see how she is slowly moving towards him as this will cause tension as you think something's about to happen to him/her. When he opens his eyes makes us as the audience jump as we didn't think it was possible. There's even a wider shot used after this to show the girl looking at the scene. This causes confusion as she's already in the scene and cant be in there twice. With the effect of the light flickering this also makes it more terrifying to watch.

The effect of the girl jumping up is really effective making you know that it was some sort of dream or thought in her head. You can hear the voice of the Diegetic sound the man is saying 'No case of a James ever waking up' as he's saying it the camera focuses on the girls emotions in her face making it seem like she's still confused about what happened as it probably seemed so real. There's a point of view shot of the man shining down onto the camera the light making it so real and makes you feel apart.

There's an establishing shot again but on the night rather than in the day showing the comparison, you can see now how the house looking threatening and scary. Gives the audience a clue that it changes from the day to the night.  There's a series of clips of different items in the house after this. There's a close up of each things in the room, it starts off with the dolls. Dolls are usually known for children and sweet for them to play with however with films like 'Child's Play 1/2/3' and the new film 'Annabelle'. This makes you feel scared that something is going to be coming up in the room keeping the audience on edge. There's a close up of the main actresses face, you can see the frightened/confused look on her face as she isn't looking at the camera she is looking straight forward. This builds up tension as we can tell that the next clip will the thing shes actually staring at...

There's a medium shot of a boy however you can only see black. This is very effective as it's more scarier as it gives a mystery to the trailer as to who is this person? It doesn't look like the person is going to attack however it is still creepy as the question you're asking is why is he there? I would want to use dark lighting in my teaser trailer also because it makes everything more agitated as you want to know what it is.There's a medium close up shot of the door, you can see most of it and how it slams, its a medium close up as you want to see how its in her room. Making you know that something supernatural is bothering her as there was nothing else to shut the door.

The Non-Diegetic sounds are very effective in this scene, it builds tension up to everything that is about to come making your eyes glued to the screen and knowing that every time it beats down that something will happen. The words 'Kill them' relates with the history of the story with the voice so this makes us now know that throughout the film we are waiting for death and tragedy. This description of this is used with various camera angles like wide shot, extreme wide shot, close up and dissolve to end it off knowing that the time is back to present. These are all effective as it doesn't take to much of the trailer up and doesn't give a deep description just what you need to know. Using these cut shots after each other ensures that the audience won't get bored watching. I would want to use these in my trailer and use it of close ups of objects as well as faces for example weapon with blood on.

When the insects are under James' body makes you feel ill looking at it, there's a extreme close up shot showing his back and the detail of whats on there making it look worse.

You start to figure out that the film is a psychological horror and how its playing with people's mind, i like this idea and would like to reinforce it on the teaser trailer that i am going to be making as i think its interesting and wont make the audience bored or predict what will happen. 

There is a scene in the trailer of a extreme close up, this is effective and in my trailer i would like to use a lot of these as i think it shows the more scarier features to the victim/villain.

The ending in film trailers always seem to be the most important as they try and get everything in a short space and that's why the use cut shots too. At the end of this trailer there is loads not giving to much away. This is really effective and essential that i do this in mine.

The ending of the trailer is another close up of the ill twin brother James, hes better and looks well. It has normal and calm music over it making everything seem confusing. James has a type of evil look on him that makes you fearful as you know hes not normal. The words 'Kill them' over makes the audience think that he is a target to why this has all happened. The music over saying the words kill them makes you more alarmed and nervous as to who dies and who stays alive... Leaving it as sort of a cliff hanger of the trailer which is a good idea for me to use in mine.