Whilst looking into teaser trailers I didn’t want to narrow my choices of genre down straight away so instead I decided to go for my top 3 trailers from each genre of film based on how much they make me want to watch the film, find out more or simply one I want to keep watching!
My favourite trailer 500 days of summer
I just really like the general feel throughout. The start with the couple and the voice over explaining this film isn’t going to be the typical romantic comedy you expect. In this trailer the voice over works particularly well as addressing the target audience- girls who like these films and with the list of emotions you can go through during your relationship or liking someone.
And the clips from the film are edited together in a fast pace fitting in with what is being read with the voice over. The main actors are named and shown which helps with face recognition if you don’t recognise the names. The upbeat music and popular song at the time of release only makes you smile watching the trailer and you can tell it will be a feel good film. The whole look of it and genre being quirky and indie style and still not giving to much about the story away make this a very successful, fun and memorable teaser trailer.
Number 2- Twilight
This is my favourite for editing techniques.
The fast pace keeps you intreged and you want to find out more about what happens. The music isn’t to overpowering yet works with the edit techniques. However I don’t like that this trailer used dialogue from the actors as I think it weakens it and instead of creating a mix of what happens in the story line it shows blocks of scenes with no room for guessing.
Number 3- the silent house (low budget)
This is one of my favourite teaser trailers I came across as it shows a variety of lighting, camera angles and sounds. It also doesn’t look to glamourous and high budget to do. After thinking of my initial ideas I wanted to just get a collection of teaser trailers that would fit to a style I would like to achieve. It fits conventions of a teaser trailer as well as breaks them. It is a continuous camera roll throughout the film yet the clips have been edited for a fast pace effect and to limit what is given away in the story line.
