Sixth sense analysis

This trailer is effective in a variety of different ways; one of these is that when the screen starts to flash and the music sounds like a heart beat, then your heart starts to beat at the same rate as the flashing and the sound. The trailer uses dramatic dramatic music and special effects to cause tension for the viewer, by making the screen flash more and the music to speed up when there is something interesting or different about to happen. This then makes you tense and puts you on the edge of your seat.

The opening shot of the trailer tells you that you are in America as the Mise en scene shows you a police car in which says 'dial 911'. Also in this opening shot, also from the mise en scene, you can tell that in the film there is going to be a link with the emergency services. In the trailer for this movie you hear the voices of the star's before you see them, this then makes you think about who they are and you listen to what they are actually saying more than if you see them straight away when it gets to the car scene they use an other the shoulder shot so that you can see coles facial expressions clearly. Also in this trailer it gives away what people think is the main story line of the film this then makes you want to watch it more as you want to now if that is the whole story line or not. This therefore makes you feel as if you are in con trol because you now the secret and no one else does this feeling is produced by the mise en scene of that particular scene this is because they use camera angles so that it looks as if Cole is looking directly at you they use a close up on his face. This is shown in the trailer as it is made to give enough away but not too much.the opening shot of this trailer is of cole telling his mum that the women in the car accident has died and that she is standing next to his car window, they then go from that to a page where it tells you who the production team is. this then makes you want to know more so you will keep whatching and keeps your atention. It then goes to short clip's of a variety of scenes in which all have the main charecter cole in them who is played by  Haley Joel Osment.

The poster of sixth sense does not give away but what it does give away helps you to tell the genre of the film. this is also given away by the fact that it actually says that it is a thriller on the poster. The poster has a colour pallet this colour pallet is dark and describing colours. what i mean by this is that the colours give away the type of film in which it is going to be. when i first saw this poster the first thing that came to my head was fire, horror and devastating things will happen. The other thing that i have noticed now that i have seen the film and found out what the story line is then you can see on the poster that Cole is breathing out a cloud of air this is used in the film to represent when a ghost is by that person. As on the poster there is the child psychologist as well this kind of gives away that the child psychologist is a ghost, you would not see this on first look of the poster you would also not notice this if you had not seen the film. You could also say this about the fact that there is a light shinning other the child psychologist this could be represented as the tradition of a light shinning other a person when they die as people always say walk towards the light. This could be said as the light is shinning other the child psychologist and there is a shadow other half of Cole's face. It is as if the camera angles of the characters is trying to tell you that Cole is observing this happening, i.e. the child psychologist Finlay walking towards the light.