Christmas 2009, Eastenders.
The music in the trailer is mainly non and extra diegetic. The non diegetic music consists of a slower version of the Christmas song of "we wish you a merry Christmas". It gives an eerie feel which links to the problem the characters are facing, Archie. The dialogue is an echoing re-verb suggesting they are the voices of the characters that appear in the trailer as their lips don't move, giving the audience a further insight to what is going to happen.
The first camera angle used is a tracking establishing shot of the Queen Victoria Pub. This shows the audience that this is where the issue is. Every new shots is faded into the next using a black fade. We then see an over the shoulder close up of Stacey's worried expression and this close up of the same expression is mirrored on the other characters faces when they are revealed with a panning or tracking shot. The fact they are coming out from the shadows wearing the same or similar expressions, imply they are all in the same position or related somehow.
The Christmas decoration around the Queen Victoria pub showing the viewer what time of year it is and this is also backed up by the Christmas song. There is natural lighting which alludes to night-time which has connotations of despair and fright, foreshadowing the events that follow.
The BBC1 logo remains in the middle at the bottom of the screen so you know which channel it is on, but also the voice over at the end of the trailer with the title page of BBC1 tells you the time and when, "Christmas Day".
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