film trailer conventions

1. Film Trailer
Conventions
Genre appropriate music: When
you use appropriate sounds for a
specific type of movie. For e.g.
you are creating a horror movie,
you’ll need high/deep chords to
show the escalation and density
of the movie scenes.
Interesting exciting dramatic
scenes: Using the most eye catching
part of a movie scene and embedding
it into flashing images to get the
audiences’ attention.
Genre signifiers: a storyline of
typical story of a genre for e.g.
boy meets girl, they fall in love.
Main characters: Are often used when
an actor is the person centered in a
story or a film.
Narration: someone sets a spoken
commentary work on an action
process of taking a movie/drama. That
is often very useful to inform the
audience about the story.
Inter-titles: Are used when filmed and text is
edited to portray the characters dialogue.
Cliff-hangers: Dramatic scenes of
interesting parts of the ending that
leaves the audience at the edge of
their seats, eager to watch or see the
upcoming event of the movie.
Actors’ name: Very important when it
comes to casting.
Locations: Specific places or position for an
upcoming events or movie.
Name of Director: It shows who is
responsible for the movie that has been
produced, mostly so that people can view
the production of the movie. Also incase
of casting new actor/actresses for up
coming movies.
Name of Film at the end: they are very
important because that is what entices the
audience to come to watch the movies, so
that they can get more money and more
views.
Name of film at the end: usually at the
end to promote upcoming events in the
trailer or the movie. (so people could
watch it)
Production company logo’s:
Logo’s that production
companies use as logo’s to
advertise what has been
made/created.
Release date: Advertise the
movie a month after it is produced
or made.
Institutional accolades: Are there
to show the award ceremonies that
some of the actors won.