Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D
In this trailer, we are given a good idea of the narrative structure. Quite generically, we are shown that a group of teens are given a house from a relative. Through use undiagetic sounds that help give drama, we can tell straight away that they should not be there. Different edits show secret parts to the house which instantly tells us there is danger. During this part of the trailer there seems to be equilibrium. There is a soundtrack being played, which is calm, backing this up. This music stops as soon as we see the text “in 1974. A legend. Was born” and other scary noises are made alongside various stings. Immediately after this the pace of the trailer increases and the music is more intense and fast paced.
The characters in the trailer are young, with the generic attractive female, who seems to be shown in danger the most in the trailer. After we are introduced to the setting and characters we are given various close ups of the killer “leather face”. Hereafter the trailer shows shots of the killer chasing down the teens. The shots build up until the end where we are given around about a ten second shot of darkness and no sound whatsoever. Rather expectedly this silence is broke and the next shot is the killer attacking with a chainsaw, which is very generic.
This trailer follows Todorov’s structural theory to a point, although does challenge the ending as there is evident equilibrium at the start followed by a problem, then realisation of this problem, but we are not given an attempt to overcome the problem or a new equilibrium at the end.
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