Sorority Row film trailer analysis

Sorority Row

This film is about a group of girls who are graduating from college and decide to get revenge on a boy who they regard as a “player”, a guy who likes to bag women and sleep with them. But it all goes horribly wrong. The prank is to get one of the girls on the bed with him and while there kissing, she pretends to start choking. She is dead according to him, but the girls all know that she is alive and playing along to the prank. They take her body to an abandoned yard and she is still pretending to be dead. But all of a sudden, the guy who thinks she is dead takes a weapon shaped like a cross that you use to take tyres off, and sticks it straight through the girl’s body, unaware that she is actually alive and this is all a prank. This is where the horror begins with all involved being haunted and terrorised from that moment on.
The film starts with a lot of jump cuts to different scenes with all the girls shown. They are shown as very racy and flirty girls who are obviously good looking and use these looks to their advantage. The jump cuts give the audience the opportunity to see each girl that is in the group and it gives them an idea of what they are like. They are seen as part animals and girls that like to have a good time, which involves mainly alcohol and male attention. When they hatch the plan to get revenge on Gary the “player”, he comes scrabbling out on to the hall way to speak and get the girls to help him as he thinks the girl he was just with is dead. A medium close up is used to show the reaction on his face to the horror he has just witnessed.
Straps are used effectively to show that the film changes from that point on. This is the turning point in the film and the straps lead us to think that a big incident is about to occur. “A PRANK”. This shows us that it was all one big wind up to get revenge on Gary for cheating on one of the girls in the gang. In the car, a lot of close up shots are used to reveal the agony and despair on Gary’s face and also shows the joy and laughter on the girls faces thinking they have wound him up properly.
Incidental music is played while there in the car to intensify the drama that is happening. The words you hear from the song “you did a bad thing” show that Gary still believes that he killed her. You can hear the little drum beats that are very quiet which signals that something big is building up and the tension is about to mount up. When Gary sticks the weapon through her and kills her everyone is distraught and shocked by this as it was only supposed to be a prank on Gary to get revenge on him for cheating on one of the girls. A lot of jump cuts are used to show each girls reaction to her death. A low angle shot is used to show us where they are going to dump her body and get rid of it so none of them are found guilty. This shot shows us there angle and view of the location which is a well. They dump the body and the weapon to get rid of all the evidence. A white out is then used as the film changes from this point onwards. A jump cut is again used on all the girls when each of their phones ring and this shows us there reaction and horror to this happening. Incidental music is played when they are being haunted by someone they think is the dead girl Megan in a black hooded gown. This music builds up the tension. Along with the jump cuts, close ups are used on each of the girls as it gives us a good indication of what they are feeling.
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