Detailed analysis

Camerawork: The opening scene of the trailer shows a weather shot of the sun setting. This is the conventional, peaceful start to many Horror movie trailers as it shows the innocence of the start of the movie.

The next scene is a long shot of a family of three, a mother, father and daughter, with the sun setting in the background of the shot and the family walking towards it. Both these camera shots establish the innocence at the start of the trailer.

The next scene is a mid-long shot of protagonist's family, and then it quickly cuts to a close up of both the parents of the family, the protagonist and his wife as they are enjoying their evening meal.

Another establishing shot is used when an aerial shot of a neighbourhood in an innocent light is shown to establish the location of which this movie will be set in.

The shots of the “Purge Feed”, which look like they’re from a CCTV camera, are all longshots of the destruction and mayhem that occurs because of The Purge.Many more establishing shots are used, to show the house arming it’s defences and to show the emptiness of the roads.The tilted angle close up of, who I assume is, the main antagonist of the movie, is an effective shot as it has his face clear and showing the audience who the main antagonist is without hiding it as many trailers tend to do. Also the sides of the shot are blacked out so you cannot see the surroundings clearly and the face of the female in the background.

Editing: The editing for the trailer at first is slow paced editing, into fading out and then once the action starts the editing becomes fast paced and this is conventional of the horror genre, particularly the trailers of such films as it shows violence and action in a quick, fast way.

Sound: The sound in the trailer at first is all peaceful ambient

sound. Non-digetic doorbell sounds are then heard and the sound of violence too.Music is added later, during the disequilibrium, this is conventional with some horror trailers as it has peaceful music in place while ultra violence scenes are present, to show the contrast during the scenes.

Mise-en-scene: The mise-en-scene used in the trailer of The Purge, in terms of costumes, is that that the main family, the protagonist and family. Is that the protagonist is wearing a suit, without the tie. His wife is wearing a black top with a beige cardigan. Their children are wearing what looks like it could be a school uniform, white shirt and black trousers for the son and a white blouse, black and blue striped tie and a black skirt for the daughter. These clothing connote that they are your everyday ‘well-off’ American family. Their house looks very nice, exterior and interior and is designed well to suit their lifestyle.

The costume of the man who seeks refuge in the house, the ‘target’ for the antagonist’s Purge this year, is wearing a greenish coloured jacket and jeans by the look of it. His jacket is also ripped on the back and he looks as though he’s bleeding and/or is really sweaty.

The antagonist and his entourage are all wearing nice, fancy clothes, he in particular is

wearing a suit and the woman in the background of the security camera scene is wearing a white dress. They all also wear masks of people who are all smiling and this is conventional of the horror genre as masked people are a common object of fear in such movie like I.T, Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. This also helps the viewer of the trailer and not the movie as it doesn’t give away too much details of the character and what they actually look like.