Lighting-
- In this trailer, the film starts off in a quiet suburb with natural, normal lighting, indicating that nothing out of the ordinary will unfold.
- During the later stages of the movie, the lighting becomes more dark, less colourful, with heavy de-saturation, black and white shots, almost completely black frames and bouts of barely see able objects, along with touches to light up the scene.
- This trailer also uses dark light on certain individuals, indicating that those people might have a hidden truth yet to be discovered.
- Some of the scenes look a lot more terrifying due to the use of dark colours in almost unseeable scenes.
Setting-
- In the first scenes, the trailer shows young adults in a quiet suburb looking to shoot a film. Overtime, as time goes on, the film starts to turn gloomy, with dark scenes, abandoned houses and an empty forest.
- In the trailer, the suburbs act as a safe-point for the characters. The Forest acts as a danger for the characters, as well as hiding what could be behind the shadows, ready to jump out at anytime.
- The abandoned house shown in one shot acts as a place of danger, since the character would have no idea what's been left behind or what's possibly inhabited the area.
- Other scenes showed off various paths in dark scenes, showing that the path could led to danger or maybe something bad happening to the characters.
Costumes-
- The film trailer did not show any monsters or creatures but, it did show civilians dressed up in normal, winter like clothing.
- There were two people in the trailer, dressed a bit more older fashioned clothing, look out of place compared to the young adults.
- The costumes on the main characters makes them look fragile since they are not prepared for what may come out of the shadows.
- The clothes on the young adults look like they came out around the 1990's, around the time the film was made, it was released in 1999.
Props-
- The main props in the trailer was to shown to be a camera for recording, a house, an old book and torches.
- The camera in this film is used by the young adults, filming their own documentary, with us seeing the action though this camera.
- The abandoned house is used to make viewers believe that there's more to the story than what the film is showing us so far.
- The book in the film is the reason why the young adults in the film go out on this adventure, they are trying to see if an urban myth is true.
Facial Expressions-
- The young adults look quite excited in the first part of the trailer, looking forward to shooting their documentary.
- Overtime, their excitement grows more into despair then into fear and anxiety.
- One girl is seen crying in the trailer, showing that something tragic or scary had happened, either death or something coming after the group.
- They start to fear that there is no way out from the forest once they start to lose themselves.
- They now believe that there is something chasing after them towards the end of the trailer, as they start to run away from the area.
