Trailer Analysis - Berlin Syndrome

• The trailer opens with everything seemingly okay, there is a slow editing speed between a series pastel colour graded wide shots to create a sense of innocence. 
• This is then paired with light piano music again reinforcing the idea that this is just an ordinary holiday this woman is on and that she (and the audience) should have nothing to be afraid of
• When she first bumps into Andy the editing speed picks up and there is a series of quickly paced, moving mid shots, circling around the two of them, giving an almost disorientating feel to it
• There is a very shallow depth of field on all of the shots of the two of them, highlighting that she is all that is important to him and that he wishes to block out the rest of the world from them both
• The production company is then displayed
• There is a clear turning point in the trailer, the peripeteia, straight after we here the woman speak of leaving
• This is highlighted by a darkly lit, low key close up shot of the man's eyes looking straight up into the camera which slowly fades to black. Paired with a synchronous crash in the soundtrack and the abrupt end to the previous calm piano music.
• The trailer than displays that is was chosen for the Sundance film festival, conveying that it is critically acclaimed and hints at the genre of the film.
• There is a symmetrical close up shot of the door, illustrating that she has been looked in, followed by a montage of her attempting and failing various escapes
• This is made increasingly eerie by the limited non diegetic sound
• The dark empty wide shots of the surrounding contrasted with the close up closed frame shots of the female protagonist help to ass to the feeling of her isolation
• Quotes from citics reviews are placed over the shots, once more showing and audience the film is critically acclaimed
• The trailer ends with the music cutting out synchronous to the shot changing to a wide shot of Andy leading her away from the house, out into a forest, leaving the unanswered question in the watchers mind of what he intends to do to her
• Then following the usual format the trailer ends with the title followed by the release date of the film, paired with a non diegetic crash.

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