The Boy

The boy is a recent horror/ Thriller film. The basic narrative of it is that a young woman takes a job
as a nanny, she later comes to know that the 'child' she is supposed to take care of turns out to be a doll of a little boy. The parents of the 'child'  replaced him with a doll to help them cope with the death of their child 20 years ago. Greta (the young woman) is given a list of rules that she has to follow when she is taking care of the 'child', she breaks those rules assuming nothing will happen. The fact she breaks the rules causes strange paranormal things to happen.

(I apologise for German version)

The trailer gives a clear view of the narrative because it goes through the rule braking and how she gets to meet the 'child'. There is a lot of low key lighting used to make the audience fell fear. The end part of the trailer features fast-pace editing this is done so that the trailer reaches a crescendo creating tension in the last  couple of seconds. Fading to black is used very often, this is a convention of horror/thriller movies, the reason for this is because the colour black connotes death and end. There is a focus pull on the doll sitting against the wall with Greta in the background, this shot is used to show the fact that they boy has moved, however it also connotes his importance in this movie because the camera is focused on him.