Analysis of sound for this trailer for my radio trailer because there are no radio trailers.
The trailer begins with glass breaking to represent the production company.
There is silence to connote that the actual trailer is about to start which creates suspense. There is a repetitive sound of clinking/ metal sounds as if someone is trying to make something. This could connote that this is what they do in everyday lives, or that they are making some type of weapon.
There is eerie music in the back layout of the sound with the wind howling. This could have been made during post-production. At first the wind sounded like a police siren which connotes that there is danger and someone needs rescuing, but once the audience figure out that it is the wind, it could connote that someone is alone with something that is torturing them and there is no way for them to get any help.
The wind starts to sound like a whizzing sound and metal chipping sounds continue. This connotes that there is no one there but this person who is making these sounds. There is a sudden bang of what sounds like a steel door / soft metal door which creates a little jump scare to scare the audience. The metal chipping sounds continue as the entrance of two men's voices talk to each other. Now the audience know that they are not alone.
One man says 'even I don't know everything about this place', which connotes that they are in a place that they have not been before / that they do not belong to and it foreshadows that there is maybe something there that has been keeping an eye on them, or that they are not alone and will soon be suffering. The continuous sound of the metal connotes that they are doing something to survive.
The eerie music continues and fades into silence for a few seconds which connotes that we (the audience) are about to be scared. Again it sounds as if a metal door has been shut really loudly and at the same time, the conventional scream of a girl is heard. This connotes danger and something has attacked her. It is weird because we do not know who the girl is, and we have just been introduced to get through her scream. Perhaps she will be the villain who takes and suffocates the two men.
The men sound confused and don't know what is going on. The same metal clanking sound plays but this time it sounds as if it is a broken clock/some machine that is trying to work. This could connote that since the usual sound is getting distorted, they are about to be attacked and not live their normal lives.
One of the men say "I don't know what's happening here" followed by a lady saying "you sound tired" as if it is coming through some speaker. This sounds like they are being followed and watched. He replies with "I am" before she says "I love you henry" and keeps repeating it like she is a robot, or a toy that doesn't stop talking when it is broken. Since her voice is replaying these four words, it could foreshadow that at one point she will stop saying it and perhaps she is a victim. It could also foreshadow that the metal noise will stop as well, since he voice repeats asynchronously with the main sound.
There is the sound of fire burning followed by a door creaking open which connotes that something s about to get them. The eerie music plays and the trailer ends with another sound of the metal door shutting. The fact that it shut three times could connote that the story does have a beginning, a middle and the end, and that the audience should watch the movie if they want to find out what the end is. This creates a cliff-hanger.
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