Misery Trailer
Theatrical Trailer-
• The trailer starts off with a blizzard being shown and
a turned over car in the distance, the fading between clips shows a man inside
the car. There is also a non diegetic instrumental soundtrack which is
repetitive and almost creepy alongside the sounds there is a non diegetic voice
over of a woman talking and seems very knowledgeable she is, we can infer, to be
talking to the man.
• The scene then changes to a house
with the man in a bed, the furnishings of the house are minimal and basic.
However there is some cutaway editing as a man and woman talk about a missing
person who again can be inferred to be the man.
• The eerie repetitive music still
plays in the background as there is a close up of the man’s chin as he is being
shaved by the woman ‘Annie’ she says ‘I was following you’ as though she was
stalking the man. It then jump cuts to a Point of view shot through binoculars
and a non diegetic voice over saying ‘Paul is dead’ is then fades to the
isolated cabin, showing it to have lights on, as someone is home.
• The non diegetic music then
changes to something more sinister and slow. Annie comes out from the shadows
calling the man a ‘dirty bird’ half of her face is shadowed as though she has
two sides, of her, one of which is darker and crueller, and we as an audience
are going to see it. She talks about ‘Misery’ as though she is a real person, not
a fictional character. As an audience we can infer she has an obsession with
Misery and the books, so also with Paul.
• There is a close up shot of Paul
turning over the phone and seeing it isn’t connected and it then jump cuts to
his face to see the realisation that he is in fact trapped in the cabin. It
then changes to match on action of Annie pulling out a gun, then of Paul
falling out of bed, crawling through the house and taking a knife, the parallel
editing alongside this shows Annie driving somewhere, which can be inferred
home. There is then a shot reverse shot of Paul in bed and the door.
• The non diegetic soundtrack
quickens the pace as each clip changes quicker and the intensity is being
increased. Throughout this montage of clips there is a cutaway of what seems to
be lettering and it becomes clearer as more letters are shown that it is the
title of the film.
Annie comes in and there is a point of view shot of
Paul looking at Annie putting a wooden block between his feet and says ‘sh
darling it’s for the best’ as though her using a hammer against Paul is
perfectly logical. It then blacks out as a non diegetic voice says ‘God I love
you’
