7500 and Final Destination Film Trailer Comparison

The trailers for the films 7500 (2012) and Final Destination (2000) both have the purpose to advertise their movies and bring in as many different audiences to watch the movie as possible, when the movie comes out to the cinemas. Both trailers are limited to about 2 minutes, therefore the trailers have to be both entrancing, entertaining, while at the same time showing the audience what the film is about without giving away too much. This is so the audience will have to come and see it what happens in the film for themselves.

With both of these films being in the category of horror movies, the trailers try to include as many scary scenes as possible. However one of the differences between the two trailers is that Final Destination shows the audience what we are to be scared about when we watch the film, while because the trailer for 7500 just shows the audience that we should be scared, for all the characters in the movie are. 7500 does this by showing clips of the characters screaming and scared but never what they are screaming about. Scary movies have changed throughout time, look at the movies from the nineties majority of the scary movies are of zombies and vampires, things that people know about, while in the modern world the movies tend to be based on what we don’t know. This is shown through the trailers with the fact that 7500 never shows what ‘it’ is that is terrorising them. 7500 uses the song leaving on a jet plane written by John Denver through out the trailer, it is a common song that most people would know, though it is slowed down and sung in a key higher to make it feel like what is happening on the screen is faster than it is.

People who are already at the cinema waiting to watch another movie mostly see these film trailers. These individuals are most likely going to be people who watch movies regularly and are quite used to reading what is on screens because we perform this activity so often. That is why both of these trailers use text...