So one day I was looking up some cool trailers for various video games until I stumbled upon the video game Dead Island. Dead Island is a video game where you play as a survivor of a zombie apocalypse on an island resort and you must fight to survive. The game itself pretty much involves slicing and shooting at zombies as you travel around the island. The game itself is good and all, but what really interested me was the announcement trailer for it.
The trailer starts off showing a young girl dead on the ground. That's right, a young, dead, girl just laying there. Right off the bat you are entranced by the shocking image that you see. Then suddenly the girl flies up through the air into a, once broken, glass window of a hotel room. As you see this happen you also see flashes of the same little girl running down a dark hallway as she breathes heavily from exhaustion and being frightened. You, as the viewer, then realize the trailer is showing you the beginning and the end of what happened to this little girl and her mother and father during a zombie apocalypse.
Let me say for a trailer that is very graphic and disturbing it is also very emotionally engaging, well-made, and beautiful. Some may say "beautiful" wouldn't be a good word to describe the trailer but it's beautiful in the sense that it accomplishes making you feel emotionally different by the end of the trailer. The trailer showing the end of the girls life and what led her to that point tells a story in a unique way. By the end of the trailer you feel very sad for this family and you will be horrified of their inevitable fate. The icing on the cake is the subtle, yet very moving piano as the background music. This excellent trailer won the Gold Award at the Cannes festival and I completely understand why.
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