Sanctum Trailer

Sanctum

Sanctum is about a underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threating crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. The director is Alister Grierson. Alister has done a few films such as: Kokoda in 2006, Bomb in 2005 and various short films.

This trailer has the excitement, tension and suspense that a thriller trailer wants. As it starts off simple and no complications however suddenly changes the pace and starts with  a quick surpass scene of everything going wrong within the cave.

Sound

We start off this trailer with non- diegetic music to set the mood within the film. We hear off screen music with the heavy breathing and also have over voice off someone talking and telling us the story. We suddenly hit into fast pace and the music has a sharp noise that is unknown. The whole music in general is very dark and mysterious.

We then come into diegetic music with the helicopter flying around the massive cave. We are introduced to another voice that we don't know who's it is and they tell us again about the story but certain key parts of the story "others to chase history".

Then diegetic music is introduced again in the noise of something which we then find out is water. The cave starts flooding and we get painted because we see the characters worried and some even die. We see the struggle and panic in their eyes which makes the audience feel it also. The music becomes so dramatic here because its the key part of the trailer.

Mise-en-scene

We also see that lighting within the cave is dark to create that realistic feel for thee audience. This dark lighting is a key convention for thriller's because it shows the mystery side and tension. We only get to see their faces and the facial expressions are very key for this story because we need to be able to identify and relate to these characters.

The costume really helps us as the audience because it makes everything look so realistic. The costume shows us they are divers and researchers as the props also have all the equipment you would expect to see. Also the lights that they have on the helmets also show us that this is a key prop because its their only source of light and hope to find what they are looking for but also to escape.