Choice of trailer type

The trailer we have have decided to create will be a highlights trailer, including conventional elements of our selected hybrid genre, focusing specifically on psychological horror with minimal aspects of gore. The reason for choosing a highlights trailer as opposed to a scene trailer is because they convey a wider variety of scenes from films more effectively, and therefore establish the narrative better. We also want to portray a range of horror conventions to reinforce our genre style, some of which include low key lighting, stereotypical character archetypes, jump scares, a slow to quick montage etc. We intend to adapt existing scenes, such as Mia whispering to her brother in Evil Dead, to add intertextual value within our trailer, thus adding audience appeal.  To deliver a successful trailer, we will focus on various editing concepts, particularly collision cutting to juxtapose scenes together which will work to create suspense and tension. The Conjuring (2013) trailer is an example of a psychological trailer which adapts a range of genre conventions, such a slow to quick montage which is incorporated with a jump scares to deliver a final sense of shock.