Super 8 Teaser Trailer Analysis

• Very dark- slight horrow feel to it
• White on black titles- very basic but effective
• Area 51 suggests alien film
• Creepy, horror like music
• Documentary narrative
• No actors revealed and no real hint to the story
• Loud crash and bang after long silence for jump scare
• Spielberg's and Abram's names are revealed giving people the idea this is going to be a quality film based on their previous works (Jaws, Lost etc.)
• Monster like gurgling sound after train crash
• Fiction masking as fact, "Could this really have happened?"
• Confusion, "Why did the truck crash into the train?"
• "Next summer, IT arrives"- Hinting that whatever is in the train, isn't human
• Viral Marketing (first posted on a website)
• Pragmatic knowledge required to know a Super 8 is a type of camera (hence the lens at the end).