Movie Trailer Conventions
Usually in movie trailers there are a lot of components that are involved to make a successful trailer. Some of the components are obvious and others are used for effect and mainly for the audience e.g. to draw them in with a specific event that happens in the movie.
The main components are:
- Diegetic sound- Always Dialogue
- Non-diegetic Sound- music (soundtrack), sound effects and sound motifs
- Inter titles
- Social Networking links
- Film production logos
- Film title
- Age certificate
- Introduction to characters
- Name captions
- Release Date
- Cat and crew introduction
- Variety of camera shots
- Plot Summary (preview)- enigmatic code
- Institutional information (producers, distributors etc)
- Quick paced cuts and edits
- Creating a mood and an atmosphere linking to the type of genre of the film
- Genre recognition
- Building to a climax
- Variety of mis-en-scene (different locations, props and costumes)
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