Analysis Of The Film Leatherface

A blood-curdling horror movie has to tell a story while incorporating specific aspects that make it into the terrifying film that attracts an audience to the theaters. Using darkness, suspense, jump scares, and horrific background music, directors are able to create a movie that scares everyone. In the soon to be released film Leatherface, all of these aspects are addressed and play an important role in how scary it will be. The trailer for the upcoming thriller/horror movie, Leatherface is successful in capturing the audience’s attention by the way it uses color, camera angles, and sound effects to create a suspenseful feeling while raising intriguing questions that will persuade people to watch the film.
One of the most important qualities

It's the first thing people notice, so it has to be done logically to persuade the audience to feel a certain way. In the trailer for Leatherface, color is used to generate a feeling of suspense by shifting back and forth between a warmer, daylight tone to a darker, blue tone. In the beginning of the trailer, a couple is driving in a car laughing and having fun as seen in figure 1. There is a warmer tone created by the use of natural daylight to make the audience feel how the couple is feeling. Following the playful feeling created by the first scene, the color shifts when the protagonist and her child are introduced. The scene, shown in figure 2, is dimly lit by candles with no other light. Switching to darker lighting hints to the audience that the characters involved in the scene could be related to or are the problem presented in the movie. Going back to the natural daylight, figure 3 demonstrates the next shift in color when the sheriff is talking to the protagonist about her children. In this scene, the daylight is used to highlight and create shadows on

An important part in all film is the sound effects, but it is especially vital to a horror movie. The use of sound effects in the trailer for Leatherface is successful in creating a thrilling feeling for the audience. The trailer begins with the couple driving down the road; While this is happening, calming country music are playing in the background. Starting the film off with what sounds like a soft guitar causes the audience to feel relaxed. However, after a few seconds of the soft music playing, an intense screech interrupts the scene. By incorporating the loud, train like screech right after the relaxing country music addresses the jump scare factor of a horror movie, thus, succeeding in addressing all of the aspects of a horror movie into the trailer. Along with abrupt, loud sound effects, the trailer also uses a low, constant beat to captivate the audience. When introducing the protagonist and her child, there is a chilling beat playing in the background that sounds like a low, deep drum. Adding this steady beat to the trailer is useful because it keeps the audience at the edge of their seat in anticipation waiting for what is going to happen next. In the scene involving the institution that was mentioned earlier, there is a loud siren sound constantly echoing. Then, when something unexpected