Dead Island trailer

Dead Island Trailer

The Dead Island trailer instantly evokes an enigma code, leaving the audience to be curious of the extreme close up of the girl; questioning is she okay? and why is she on the floor? Whilst the camera pans out, audience are they hit with an emotionally disturbing shot of the thick blood (which juxtaposes her hyper-feminine and child like pink top), and the unidentifiable person engulfed in flames panicking in the background. As this is played in reversed order in slow motion, the following scenes emphasise the inevitable tragedy to the audience, heightening their need to nurture, which is a desired encoded reading of the entire text. The girl then proceeds to ascend through the air while a slow paced pianist instrumental is non-diegetically heard. We are given a quick change of scene to a chronologically running narrative, where the very same girl is running away from following zombies in a closeup. Conventional of survival horror games, and the horror genre itself; dark narrow corridors and deep and heavy breathing of the girl, which could not be diegetically heard at first, can now be traced to the girl herself. We are then taken back to the reversal running shots of the ascending girl who finds herself making her way through a window and onto a bleeding mans back. This is an unfolding action code in itself, and enigma codes such as why is the man bleeding filter in.