Out of these three trailers i feel that Paranormal Activity is the one that has the strongest indication of the narrative. I think this because in the trailer there is a lot of quick shots of footprints and things flying at the camera, and objects crawling under the bed cover. By doing this i think that they have put all the scary parts from the film into the trailer so that most of the narrative is given out in the trailer so that you have a lot of knowledge about the film already before you have seen it. There is also speech from the characters in the trailer which give more of the narrative away such as talking about catching a phenomenon and such things like "I feel it breathing on me". I feel that this gives too much away because the audience knows that there is something in their house which they can't see just by the trailer of the film.
However, I think that Halloween 2 is the opposite and doesn't give a lot of indication of the narrative away. In this trailer there is a lot of screaming and no indication of what it is about, there is also shots of a woman getting rushed into hospital and no indication of to why which leaves you in suspense, and leaves you feeling like you have to watch the film to see what actually happens in the film, like a trailer should do.
The Hills Have Eyes 2 trailer is also very similar to the Halloween 2 trailer, where it doesn't give a lot of information away. At the start there is shots of a girl screaming and no indication to what she is screaming for or about. Then it suddenly changes to something completely different where it looks like men in some form of dessert, which doesn't seem scary but then there is shots of things happening in the dessert, but you still don't get an idea of the real story line. There is also a bit of text on the screen about the film but it doesn't give too much away.
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