Analysis of 'Audition' Trailer

The trailer 'Audition' starts of with the low angled shot focused on a girl sitting on the floor with her head hung down, her surroundings are motionless and she is completely still creating a tense atmosphere and a consequential climax. The setting is deserted and mysterious as the foreground is shadowy and the background includes a large white bag. The shot instantly changes to a middle aged man staring at a phone, presumably waiting for it to ring. The next shot is purposely filmed from a high angle to display the telephone in the room and therefore link the two characters together. As the girl hears the phone call the close up shot of barely visible mouth is shown to break into a sinister smile. This mysterious body language of the woman is very typical of a thriller as well as the deserted, mysterious, shadowy settting to set a tense mood for the thriller. As the girls head slowly tilts upwards a medium close up shot is taken of the room, with the background visible. The girls face is still slightly covered by her hair, retaining an eerie atmosphere and the importance of her unidentification. The sudden jolt of the white bag sets off a series of fast paced cuts of various shots showing injections and fluids looking as though a scientific investigation is taking place, however, the genre of the thriller leads me to imply there may be an aspect of torture within the film. The contrasting shot of a beautiful woman on a beach is followed by a shot of a couple kissing which hints at the involvement of romance within the movie but is instantly followed by striking shots of an eye flicking open, the sinister face of the girl and the man being injected with a fluid leading him to scream out in pain. The blue tint of the shot of the couple kissing predicts this contrasting series of shots showing pain and torture and the colour blue is negative and usually symbolises coldness, isolation and unhappiness which could have induced these actions to take place and is typical of a thriller. The next low angle shot looking up at the girl suggests that she possesses a sinister power and is superior to the man towards the end of the film. This is then contrasted with the innocently pure and calm shots of, supposedly, the same girl dancing in a white leotard. This emphasises the multiple personalities she may possess within the film or the contrast in her personality throughout the film as she may have started out as an innocent and virtuous character, pure in her surroundings but transformed into a cynical, menacing character towards the end because of her experiences. This is typical of the genre of a thriller as characters often experience a change in their personality or the possession of numerous personalities due to events which have happened in the past or are presently happening in the movie.