Research and Planning - Trailer Update

This week while I have been editing our trailer, I noticed that because we have had to make certain changes to the structure of our trailer due to scenes we were unable to film, the order or our trailer didn't make much sense. The deceptive explains that he has found some evidence to the suspects half way through the trailer, later followed by him actually finding it. Trailers do not have to run in chronological order of the film - they tend to be the most exciting parts of the trailer to excite the audience and make them want to watch the film. However, because we couldn't film additional 'exciting' scenes I rearranged the footage (as you'll see in my next post) to help the audience understand more, as  as well as wanting to excite the audience, you don't want to confuse them as they will not want to go and see it.  The trailer is currently one minute and twenty two seconds long, suggesting that it might now be considered a teaser trailer (the short version of the original trailer) rather than a full length trailer that tends to be over two minutes. I did this to keep it short, understandable and entertaining.

Once my trailer is uploaded to youtube, I will create a survey monkey asking the audience to guess the genre, plot, ext. The response to this will hopefully come back positive, meaning we have portrayed all of these themes throughout our trailer.