Across the hall

Across the hall is an award winning short film from 2007, which was re-made in 2009 as a full length movie.

The trailers of these two versions have some key differences, making it easy to spot which version the trailer is advertising. the main differences are how much is revealed of the plot in them, and the suspense that is created using screen titles, and other distancing devices.

For example the short film leaves a lot more open to the imagination, as there is not much in the way of sound and dialogue, and it also doesn't reveal much of the narrative of the film either.

The feature length trailer is much longer and contains more techniques to engage with the audience. It creates much more suspense by having a background narrator, but it also tells the audience more of the narrative. It also creates a lot more suspense using music.

The two posters advertising the films (short film - left, feature film - right) differ on some key style and quality points. The poster advertising the film is noticeably more colourful, and is visually obvious that it was made by some high-budget Hollywood film company. It also contains many images merged together, probably in photoshop, whereas the short film version contains one image of relatively low quality, which is a screenshot from the film. This suggests that not a lot of effort has been put into the advertising of the short film, as the poster is merely a screenshot from the film with some white writing over the top of it. However the Hollywood version has different images for every character on the poster, and all of the actors have been airbrushed and made to look near perfect by the high-budget Hollywood designers.