The Woman in Black Trailer Analysis

Moment of disequilibrium

@ 54”Period of Equilibrium Period of Disequilibrium

Title card and age restriction at

0” to 5” then company credit

until 12”

Visual starts at 12”. Shows room full of toys and dolls which then start playing

creepy jewelry box music. Non-diegetic sound of

wind howling in background.

Quick second cuts from 23” to 26” of the dolls playing music and a cart travelling along a

road. Then shows abandoned, run-down, old mansion at 26”

Non-diegetic audio of little girl saying poem/rhyme at

29”. Still have creepy jewelry box music playing.

Quick cuts of inside of this house from 29” to 32” to accompany child’s rhyme. At 34” there is then present

visual of children playing in a bedroom. Cuts back to children toys at 25” and then cart along a road at

36”

At 38” there is a scratched out photo with a woman in

the background. The camera zooms in on this woman at 40” and the

music booms and begins to drone out but then stays.

Present tense visual from 41” to 47” to show people staring at the man moving through the tow in the cart but to also

accompany the child’s rhyme and what is being said.

Establishing shot of house at 47”. Shot of inside of the house at 50” and music speeds

up.

Man sitting in chair and shadow of woman

walks behind. Music then drones out and

thunder comes in. Music then starts

again.

Little boy in marshes by a cross at 55” with the sound of thunder, one second cuts from 55 to

1’06”

Cuts to black at 1’08” and cuts back to a fire

within a house. The child’s rhyme says “The

woman in black”

Tone card of actors name

Visual back at 1’16” of man staring out window, no sound

other tan wind. Cuts to scene of land and then cuts back to a woman standing behind the

man in the window.

Tone card of title at 1’26” until 1’33” of The Woman in Black written on a

window.

Creepy jewelry box music then plays slowly from 1’33” to 1’38” as the coming soon sign

shows.

Ends at 1’40”