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What are trailers for films? They are clips of forthcoming movies that are shown at the start of feature attractions shown at the cinema or on video. My problem with trailers are that they too often show too much of the forthcoming film. You sit there thinking this looks good, great stunts and action scenes but when you get to watching the film you sit there realising you are over an hour into the film when you think back to a memorable scene from the trailer and you haven’t seen it yet. Thus you know this is still to come. For example in Mission Impossible 2 in all the ad campaigns a motorbike scene featured heavily, yet when you come to watch the film it does not appear until the final 15 minutes. This means all the time you are watching the film and the hero is in a precarious position, a real cliff-hanger in the case of MI-2, you know he is going to be alright because you’ve already seen another scene with him in, in the trailer.
I know film distributors are trying to sell there film to the public, to make it look as exciting as possible and usually the final scene is the most dramatic but I wish they wouldn’t show so much that it gives away important plot developments.
Finally my most ridiculous piece of advertising has to be for Universal Soldier. When I went to hire this on video when it was originally released the poster shows scenes from the film, one of those pictures was of Dolph Lundgren impaled on all the spikes which happens right at the end and is his last scene, yet earlier in the film he is involved in an incident where he crashes over the edge of a cliff in a bus and you’re supposed to believe he’s dead. Well all those people who looked at the poster knew he couldn’t be. (According to the “rules” of these types of films, he wasn’t going to be but it still gave too much info away)
My plea to film companies please make trailers that interest the audience but don’t show too much.
I know film distributors are trying to sell there film to the public, to make it look as exciting as possible and usually the final scene is the most dramatic but I wish they wouldn’t show so much that it gives away important plot developments.
Finally my most ridiculous piece of advertising has to be for Universal Soldier. When I went to hire this on video when it was originally released the poster shows scenes from the film, one of those pictures was of Dolph Lundgren impaled on all the spikes which happens right at the end and is his last scene, yet earlier in the film he is involved in an incident where he crashes over the edge of a cliff in a bus and you’re supposed to believe he’s dead. Well all those people who looked at the poster knew he couldn’t be. (According to the “rules” of these types of films, he wasn’t going to be but it still gave too much info away)
My plea to film companies please make trailers that interest the audience but don’t show too much.
My agreement is 100%.
What are trailers for films? They are clips of forthcoming movies that are shown at the start of feature attractions shown at the cinema or on video. My problem with trailers are that they too often show too much of the forthcoming film. You sit there thinking this looks good, great stunts and action scenes but when you get to watching the film you sit there realising you are over an hour into the film when you think back to a memorable scene from the trailer and you haven’t seen it yet. Thus you know this is still to come. For example in Mission Impossible 2 in all the ad campaigns a motorbike scene featured heavily, yet when you come to watch the film it does not appear until the final 15 minutes. This means all the time you are watching the film and the hero is in a precarious position, a real cliff-hanger in the case of MI-2, you know he is going to be alright because you’ve already seen another scene with him in, in the trailer.
I know film distributors are trying to sell there film to the public, to make it look as exciting as possible and usually the final scene is the most dramatic but I wish they wouldn’t show so much that it gives away important plot developments.
Finally my most ridiculous piece of advertising has to be for Universal Soldier. When I went to hire this on video when it was originally released the poster shows scenes from the film, one of those pictures was of Dolph Lundgren impaled on all the spikes which happens right at the end and is his last scene, yet earlier in the film he is involved in an incident where he crashes over the edge of a cliff in a bus and you’re supposed to believe he’s dead. Well all those people who looked at the poster knew he couldn’t be. (According to the “rules” of these types of films, he wasn’t going to be but it still gave too much info away)
My plea to film companies please make trailers that interest the audience but don’t show too much.
I know film distributors are trying to sell there film to the public, to make it look as exciting as possible and usually the final scene is the most dramatic but I wish they wouldn’t show so much that it gives away important plot developments.
Finally my most ridiculous piece of advertising has to be for Universal Soldier. When I went to hire this on video when it was originally released the poster shows scenes from the film, one of those pictures was of Dolph Lundgren impaled on all the spikes which happens right at the end and is his last scene, yet earlier in the film he is involved in an incident where he crashes over the edge of a cliff in a bus and you’re supposed to believe he’s dead. Well all those people who looked at the poster knew he couldn’t be. (According to the “rules” of these types of films, he wasn’t going to be but it still gave too much info away)
My plea to film companies please make trailers that interest the audience but don’t show too much.