Thriller analysis - Collateral

The music and editing of this trailer creates tension in a variety of ways.

The trailer begins with calm music while the mise on scene is also calm as its setting the scene. When the Antagonist character appears in the trailer the music changes to be much more thriller like rather than the previous chilled music. The change in music represents to the audience that this new character in the trailer is the bad guy. Each new shot coincides with a change in tempo in the music making the thriller more interesting to watch. As the trailer goes on the tempo slowly gets faster and faster creating extra tension because the changing pace of tempo suggests that its building up to something.

These effects make the trailer interesting to watch and entices the audience to watch the whole film.