Inspiration- 'Prisoners' Trailer

This is the trailer for the film 'Prisoners' This includes two main male characters both played by Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.

We came across this trailer, and after watching this we were instantly inspired to so something similar. The trailer is based around the idea of abduction. It is Thanksgiving in America, and a family are going over to a friends.

Both families have a young daughter, these two go outside to play, this is when we then see an old RV, a very quick glance. This is the criminals. The parents get panicky and eventually phone a detective. I think although this is a thriller based genre, it has a hint of action with the fights, weapons and 'hard' looking men. Especially the detective, he is shown to be a strong character. His hair is slicked back, and has a tattoo on is neck. this gives him a cool attitude towards what he does and who he deals with.

I think that if characters like this are shown, I would watch the trailer. When characters are attractive the audience will be more drawn to watch. Whether its a certain actor they like, or someone they like the look of.

Weather conditions in this, are ones we would like to use in our trailer. It gives off a weird feeling and we want this trailer to make the audience feel uncomfortable.  We are using the ideas of rainy, dull and grey conditions. If the weather was sunny and bright, this would make the atmosphere brighter and this is not what we are aiming for.

We have decided that we are going to do something similar to this for our final trailer.