Genre signifiers The genre signifiers Orphanage is thriller/mystery, because of this the film is full of mystery scenes. For example when the narrator is talking about kids seeing a hidden world that no adults can see. This atomically grabs the audience attention to wanting to know more of this mystery behaviour.

The trailer starts with normal equilibrium, happy mum and son taking a walk down by the seaside. 0:15 into the trailer, the sounding changes from peaceful to this sound tense music and you start to hear noises of kids and the young boy called Simon running off into tunnel with his mum shouting after him, from 0:20 of the trailer there a voiceover, the narrator voice is very deep , edgy and scary when he goes into describing about these kids see by also showing the audience what that thing is, this yet again grips our attention.

Enigma codes• Who’s that kid with the sack cloth mask ? • What has happened to the Simon? • Why’s the mum watching these videos ? • Why do kids like to play in the dark?

The NarrativeThe narrative of the trailer is that a woman and son move into a new house, this new house reeks of creepiness and as he starts to develop strong friendships with his imaginary friends his mother worries. This ends in the disappearance of the little boy and mother undertakes a major investigation to save him. Essentially a ghost story we follow Laura as she tries to find her son.

Music and soundAt the start of the trailer there’s very calm piano music, this doesn’t give anything away. As the trailer goes on the music changes into something tense and the sound speeds up with different type of beats for the different scenes shown.