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i have recently started to look at other slasher films of my genre such as films by the late Wes Craven. i looked at the Scream 4 trailer and it has shown me alot about making Slasher trailers. for starters the way they structure the dialog. what i mean by this is how they talk about the killer 30 seconds into the trailer as if he is just a game as the male is talking about how there are rules but the kills have to be much more extreme which is suggesting that the killer needs rules on how he can kill. looking at the trailer it is also easy to see that it is a dialog driven trailer which in my opinion is just lazy film making and not my ideal trailer as in trailers i prefer to make the audience put the plot together in their head instead of having one of my characters describe it to them which will just make the audience bored and not interested in the film. so i would rather prefer to make my trailer pop out with dynamic shots and fast/exciting editing.

another thing i picked out from the trailer was the way they show the movement of the killer. what i mean by this is when he goes to strike his victim with the blade they cut when the blade is around a foot away from the victim. and that the 3 seconds we see the killer it is 4 different shots fastly edited together. i like this as it adds suspense to the scene and by not showing the blade hitting the victim it doesn't spoil the story as we still don't know weather she is alive or dead.