Trailers Part 3.

Now this trailer follows a similar conventions of those in Inception, it shows what happens  in the movie however everything is so fast and distorted due to camera angle, composition and lighting that it intensifies the sci-fi adventure horror conventions, much of which is still used today.

Alien (1979)

• After the blue screen with certificates and information, the establishing shot is zooming into space, as if we the audience were passing blurs of stars- instantly setting the seen, we are not on Earth-sci-fi.
• The non-diegetic music a mixture of slow beating rising and wind like gushes as it continues to travel further into space.
• This cuts to a mid-shot of an "I" in the black sky as in the foreground, along the bottom of the shot, a unfamiliar planet floor, brown. I like the fact this setting complemented by the music makes the scene mysteriously unsettling.
• As the shot zooms out to reveal more of the planet's surface and another two vertical line in the atmosphere, the music of a spaceship entering the atmosphere the lines look like the slit windows of a typical drawn alien spaceship, the music increases in pace reflecting a beating sound and this continues to connote mystery and focuses the audience to the suspense.
• The three lines remain however the shot, camera angle changes. it now tilts down from the black letters to a round bright white planet as to more white lines appear in the spaces- as the music builds it creates a sense of time running out.
• Cuts back and forth between to a fast tracking as if travelling around this planet surface and the tilt down onto the bright round white planet. As the music races, I like how it mirrors each other building to create tension and heightening the suspense.
• Cut fades to a zoomed out close up tilting downwards showing as egg, which fades into a mid-shot, the white lines now reveals the white lines  to spell Alien. I like the imbalance of contrasting white and black as the audience is immediately told the film's name.
• Heightened music, resembling distorted screaming or moaning, after a series of overlapping fades between extreme close ups and mid-shots of the egg- importance and dominance
• Close up, the loud cracking of the egg releasing light, I like how this scene has been constructed.
• A series of long shot of exploration- implies the setting and the genre
• Distorted mid-shot tracking/hand-held one of the female explorers Sigourney Weaver suggests by the mise-en-scene, running, lower angle emphasising vulnerability and danger
• Dark, minimal lighting- suggests entrapment, little room escape and allows the audience to anticipate the fear. 
• We the audience are subjected to more hand held shots, this time from behind  Weaver, point of view of someone else- I like this as it places a connection with the audience.
• Distorted sirens or screaming along with danger between the the duration of shots,decrease, to mirror the fast paced music and amount of cuts. 
• The running action enigma continues and allows the audience to be placed in a point of view shot as the Weaver continues to run. I like the way this trailer builds tension through the use of suspense, it gives us, the audience all the information however distorts us at the same time.