Sound in teaser trailers

With some teaser trailers (such as those of horror) you can tell what the genre is going to be just by listening to the music. In class we watched some teaser trailers without the sound on, and we had to try and predict the genre, audience and the sound we would expect to hear if it wasn't muted. The two films we looked at and my predictions are shown below:

Larry Crowne:

What I think (without sound)

·         Genre: comedy/ romance (due to laughter and the kiss)

·         Audience: Middle-aged women

·         Sound I expect to hear: Sound track (soft and happy), dialogue, voice-over, diagetic and non-diagetic

Mothers Day:

·         Genre: horror

·         Audience: adults

·         Sound I expect to hear: Soundtrack (creepy), dialogue (fearful, afraid, people screaming), voice-over (male), diagetic (gunshots) and non-diagetic (doors slamming)

This task was really interesting as it made you realise just how important sound is in a teaser trailer. Although some of my ideas about what the teaser might include were right, the overall effect was not the same without sound.