Inter-titles

Whilst viewing countless trailers as part of our research, we noticed that many of them displayed inter-titles. Inter-titles and voice-overs are a convention of theatrical film trailers, and inter-titles often replace voice overs. They are a way of communicating to the audience, narrating and letting them know what is going on, and involving them in the happenings on screen. An example of a horror film which uses inter-titles is 'Jessabelle', these inter-titles are shown in the images below.

After considering our options we decided that inter-titles would be useful in our production as a form of narration, as opposed to a voice over, or nothing at all. The first inter-title, accompanied by a moderately sharp bang, said 'what would you do', after a clip of the child in bed a second inter-title entered the screen also accompanied by a bang saying 'if your childhood nightmare'. The third and final inter-title entered the screen with a slightly louder, sharper sound effect, in a noticeably larger font, saying 'came to life'. Below are images of the actual inter-titles used in our trailer.