A teaser trailer is a shortened trailer of the theatrical trailer, usually between 30-60 seconds and they contain very little of actual film footage or maybe none at all. They are released about a year to 18 months before the film is released and doesn't tell the date just maybe 'summer 2011', this may be because they haven't got a date set for release or maybe in some cases they haven't started filming.
Often in teaser trailers, the director of the film puts something for the audience to think about or speculate about (e.g. In super 8, what is inside the train.) This is very effective because it gets the audience to talk about it to different people who may have different views, which ultimately will create hype about the film and makes a snowball effect lasting until a new piece of information is released like a poster or even another teaser trailer. This is good for the big film companies because they won't have to spend huge amounts of money advertising the film on TV and in cinemas when the release date gets closer. Also the teaser trailer usually gives the genre of the film and not much else, nothing about the plot is released.
Teaser Trailers are normally made for big budgeted and popular themed films with the name of any well known actors or directors mentioned (e.g. in the Inception teaser it tells the audience that the director is Christopher Nolan, this is important because he is well known director and also it states another film he directed, The Dark Knight, and this is important because they know that The Dark Knight was very successful and had a very big following of very passionate fans, so they are trying to capture them and try to create a similar feeling for Nolan's new film. And also naming the main actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, who is a very famous name as the main actor.) JJ Abrams often doesn't put the name of the film on the teaser trailer usually just putting the date or the time of year, he does this because he has lots of fans through the tv programme Lost and mission impossible 3 so adds to the excitement that he is making a new film but nothimg has been released about it.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Super 8 Teaser Trailer
This is the teaser trailer for super 8. The trailer was released recently and nothing else has been released about it since.
These are some of the notes i took
These are some of the notes i took
- Quick editing is used to show the film may be action.
- There is a big explosion which entices the audience, because the explosion keeps the audience on the edge of their seat.
- They build excitement by telling the audience the director (JJ Abrams- creator of lost and Cloverfield) and the producer (Steven Spielberg- best known for the films E.T and Jaws) these two will excite the science fiction and action film fans alike, because they have both specialise in action and science fiction films and this would mean that they mention these names because it has a high production value.
- Because on one of the titles it says that they closed area 51 in 1979 this may give a clue to when the film is set and the type of film that it will be, because area 51 is famous for spotting extra-terrestrial life.
- There is tense music to add suspense so it encourages the audience to keep watching.
- Something seems to be alive on the train, that isn't human because the titles refer to it as 'It' this means that it may not have a gender so isn't human, also it means to be breaking through a metal door on the train which shows it has a lot of suspense.
- Super 8 has different meanings and makes different people thin that it will be different things.
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