What is a Teaser Trailer? - The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight Teaser Trailer

The Trailer instantly begins with us hearing dramatic and loud music. This is a use of non-diegetic sound and creates suspense as soon as the trailer begins. It also allows the audience to guess the genre of the trailer before they even see anything appear on the screen. It then goes to an establishing shot where we can see mountains covered in snow. The use of diegetic sound is used in this shot as we see and hear the horses. I think this is successful at  creating an atmosphere and shows that the horses are being forced to to come to a stop.

The use of costume is effective as it shows instantly when he looks up from his hat that he is a typical cowboy character. The way the cowboy looks up slowly, revealing a well known actor creates him as an important character straight away as well as making him seem mysterious.The instant different in costume between the character outside and the two people in the carriage shows that they are from different classes. I think that they use the difference in hats throughout the trailer to show the difference between the characters class as well as there voices along with this.

The use of props show the audience what sort of person the character is, as well as setting the era that the film is set in. Gun's are a use of mise en scene which are portrayed as powerful in the teaser trailer  as the character with the gun always in charge.

Low key lighting is used throughout the teaser trailer to show the mood of the characters. Also it creates a link between the weather and the lighting creating an overall low mood for the characters.

I think that the font of the writing in the teaser trailer matches with the trailer content. This makes it memorable for the audience. The look of snow on the text at the end of the teaser trailer links with the location of the film. This adds a personal feel to the text and makes it unique for The Hateful Eight film.The colour red is used on some of the text in the teaser trailer. I think this represents blood and that the characters are not afraid to kill anyone. This idea is reinforced throughout the trailer as we constantly see guns used and that the idea of the woman being hung is a humorous game.