Representation

Characters 
The characters in our trailer are like any other stereotypical middle class teenagers. This is shown by what kind of cloths they are wearing and for the most part its jeans, hoodies and trainers which is what you would associate with teenagers. By dressing characters in everyday casual clothing it makes the audience feel as if this could happen to anyone maybe even themselves and putting themselves in that situation which adds realism to the trailer. Throughout the trailer bad language is used by the characters and they use language that may represent the younger generation which is why our trailer would be much more appealing to the 18-25 age bracket rather than older people. In the trailer there (excluding Ashes Spirt) 2 guys and 1 girl (Guy, Sam and Erin.) You will notice in the trailer that its Guy who goes to see what the problem is, he takes on the role of the brave macho man which is character that most teenage films contain. The other boy Sam (Myself) stays with the girls to make sure she remains safe. This then leaves the girl who is stereotypically the scared and vulnerable female character that constantly screams and panics.

Mise en scene
We filmed the trailer a middle class house as thats how we represented the characters, a big posh house wasn't the look we wanted. And we also used a middle class first car in the car crash scene which was suitable for new driver. Once again a posh car wouldn't have represented the characters in the right way. We used the night vision affect for all of the the video camera sections which we felt gave the film a creepy and spooky feel to it.  this builds up the suspense and anything could happen at any given moment.

Sound
We used a mixture of diegetic and non-diegetic sound throughout the trailer. The diegetic sound came from things like doors slamming shut, load thuds and bangs and the sound of the television static. These are all sounds you represent with horror films. We used some non diegetic sounds like the sound of a telephone beeping was added in and we used different sounds effects when cutting into a title screen. We made our own music on garage band and the music runs all the way through the trailer. We added a lot of sound effects and lots of different sounds so that it gave the trailer a good pace and also builds up the tension as suspense because we used a variety of different sounds with different contrasts. most sounds you would hear in a house hold

Props 
The main prop obviously being the hand held video camera which is used throughout the whole trailer. In the living room scene with the the flashing lights we put a lot of alcohol out on the table which represents a typical group of teenagers. We used a pet cat for one of the clips which will make the audience think that something may happen to it at some point.