Hook Teaser Trailer

Another great example of a teaser trailer. Once again its based off a book (well more like a sequel to a book).

There is very little narrative other than its surrounding the villain of the popular book, Peter Pan. Other than that, we know nothing more. The actors are listed however its not said whom they are playing.

The music has a pirate theme to it and the map suggests it once again a pirate movie.

It is clear the footage was made just for the trailer.

Pirates of the Caribbean Teaser Trailer Analysis

This is a great example of a Teaser Trailer.

It's quite clear, the footage was made just for the trailer and the only shot from the movie is the close up on the skeleton foot. The film is based off the ride at Disney world (hard to believe it ended up such a success... at least the first one). However, unlike with books, the number of people who have actually riden the ride is much lower and the fact that probably most people wouldn't know it was based off it. Because its a Jerry Bruckheimer and Disney film, they can afford to announce who the actors are.
The narrative is hinted at but not made clear. All we learn is there is a possible curse. (Though that could be worked out from the title; Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Medallion

Plan: Idea 1

As I stated before how a lot of my teaser trailer will be difficult to film due to lack of CGI, I've come up with a way around that yet showing all the characters (relatively).

In my novel, eye colours have a huge signifigance such as Flyers have silver eyes while Waterlings have pure black eyes and the villains all have orange eyes and so on and so forth. So basically, I've started taking pictures of all my friends eyes and photoshopping them to the different colours and stuff. Here's one I completed just recently:





I think this actually looks really good. These are a pair of Flyer eyes. In my trailer, the images will move to fast that people shouldn't catch the mistakes.

Buried Teaser Trailer

A horror teaser trailer.

This is quite a simple but effective Teaser Trailer. We get from the Title that this Rey Ronald's has been buried alive and then from the 911 call he makes, he doesn't remember getting there. The genre is kind of a hyrbrid betwen horror, thriller and mystery. Its USP is being buried alive which is a lot of people's worst nightmare. The trailer is also very orginal. Because of this, the audience will be quite old maybe older teens (16) to adults (30).

It has very tense humming music which crescdo's into a high pitch frequency. The pace is rather fast due to his heavy panting while the pace of the clips is quite slow. The dialogue is a 911 call which is abruptly cut.

All that comes up for titles is the Lionsgate logo, the title and then "Coming Soon" with the film's website beneath it. Lionsgate is often associated with quality horror films such as Saw and The Haunting in Conneticut (apart of the Haunting series).

I might use a lot of black screen with voices cause its quite effective for building tension.

Research: Harry Potter 1 Teaser Trailer

Another famous book to movie adaptation.

Once again, the difficult thing is fans will know the story however the Teaser Trailer doesn't reveal much of the story other than that Harry is to become a Wizard. The teaser is a bit on the long side with a lot of long cuts which could suggest it be a boardline Teaser. Something to think about for my own film.

Research: The Last Airbender Teaser

This movie is based off a popular American-Anime show which is based off a book; its a still adapation.

Anyways, this is clearly a Teaser Trailer. Its quite obivious, this footage was only filmed for this trailer (though only those who have seen the show will know this). As soon as people see the name, they instantly know the story. Only M. Night Shyamaian is announced who is well known for films like the Sixth Sense, Signs and the Village. Although his work has been slipping of late so a lot of the Last Airbender fans were extremely nervous when this trailer was released and they turned out to be right.

Research: LotR's Fellowship of the Ring Teaser Trailer

This is quite an interesting Teaser Trailers. This was one of the firt trailers released for the Lord of the Rings series. Because my film idea is based off my novel, I'm looking to study fantasy films were are aptations from books. One key thing to note is fans who have already read the books pretty much know the story.

The reason I classed this as a boardline teaser trailer is cause while it shows all the actors and stuff, the story isn't revealed. Only fans will recongize like the catch phrase, "One ring to rule them all etc." and immediately go, "Oh its Lord of the Rings!" I think its also interesting to note that this trailer was made in early days cause they had a lot of scenes with the characters' costumes still being made and green screens.

And because this is a big budget production (directed by Peter Jackson and produced by New Line Cinema) they were able to announce rougly their release date; Christmas 2002, Summer 2003, Christmas 2003.

So for my film, I may not have to worry so much about the story being revealed since its based off a book which a lot of people have read.

Teaser Trailer Ideas Mind Map

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Finding Nemo Teaser Trailer Analysis

Pixar is a great genre to study for Teaser Trailers due to their randomness. I have chosen the teaser trailer for Finding Nemo. This scene does appear in the movie but only partially. I have made a few notes on this:

• Like how most films name their directors and produces, Pixar creates hype their association to past films which is why they list those in each trailer.
• The plot isn't revealed through this two fish other than they're lost. But it doesn't even mention Nemo.
• Also similar to Pixar films is its use of colours. Marlin in orange, Dory is blue the coral is pink etc. This attracts kids.
• While not listed, Dory's voice can be recognized to be Ellen DeGeneres who has a huge falling and will attract adults who like her.
• Its quite funny, even though the actual plot is on the serious side
• Its quite long for a Teaser Trailer but again, its not revealing anything important

Yr 12 Opening Two Minutes Teaser Trailer Shot List

Our teacher challenged us to write up a shot list; turning our Opening Two Minutes into a teaser trailer (including the whole plot), so here's mine.



Shot 1: Black screen with voice over reading white words, "I didn't ask for this."

Shot 2: Low angle mid shot of Villain smiling

Shot 3: Wide shot of burning Kingdom

Shot 4: Boy again, "I was just hungry."

Shot 5: Long shot of group of guards shouting, "STOP THIEF!"

Shot 6: "But here I am now."

Shot 7: Long, wide shot- Princess sliding at fork in the road

Shot 8: Mid shot- Princess running towards camera

Shot 9: Mid shot of boy running from guards

Shot 10: Black Screen- From the Director of Sky Angels

Shot 11: Low angle canted- Vivian walking under a bridge

Shot 12: Establishing shot of entire Kingdom

Shot 13: Wide shot of two people charging towards each other with swords raised

Shot 14: Over the Shoulder of swords clashing

Shot 15: Zoom out of girl screaming

Shot 16: Birds eye view pan of group of kids running through a field

Shot 17: Cut out to a wide shot of the entire field with them just barely being made out

Shot 18: Black Screen- "And from the Producers of Lord of the Rings"

Shot 19: Close up of main boy raising sword

Shot 20: Cut to long shot of same clip

Shot 21: Cut to wide shot of boy standing on the top of moutain with the sword starting to glow

Shot 22: Close up of colourful umbrella

Shot 23: Close up of villain's smile

Shot 24: Close up of a hand reaching towards something

Shot 25: Close up of sword being drawn from sheath

Shot 26: Wide shot of entire group of heroes

Shot 27: Close up on boy 1

Shot 28: Close up on boy 2

Shot 29: Close up on girl

Shot 30: Close up on girl 2

Shot 31: Close up on boy 3

Shot 32: Close up on main character

Shot 33: Medium shot of puma growling

Shot 34: Medium high angle shot of a man being flogged

Shot 35: Wide shot up of ballroom

Shot 36: Medium shot of villain and young woman dancing together

Shot 37: Wide shot of girl rolling down hill

Shot 38: Close up of girl landing

Shot 39: Wide shot of girl running through forest

Shot 40: High angle of girl with umbrella walking under bridge

Shot 41: Medium shot of her dying

Shot 42: Worm's eye view of villain looming over

Shot 43: Title

A bit random but its meant to be really quick.

Shot 44: Coming 2012

Super 8 Teaser Trailer Analysis

• Very dark- slight horrow feel to it
• White on black titles- very basic but effective
• Area 51 suggests alien film
• Creepy, horror like music
• Documentary narrative
• No actors revealed and no real hint to the story
• Loud crash and bang after long silence for jump scare
• Spielberg's and Abram's names are revealed giving people the idea this is going to be a quality film based on their previous works (Jaws, Lost etc.)
• Monster like gurgling sound after train crash
• Fiction masking as fact, "Could this really have happened?"
• Confusion, "Why did the truck crash into the train?"
• "Next summer, IT arrives"- Hinting that whatever is in the train, isn't human
• Viral Marketing (first posted on a website)
• Pragmatic knowledge required to know a Super 8 is a type of camera (hence the lens at the end).

Conventions of Teaser Trailers

• Short snappy shots
• Between 30-60 seconds long
• Its purpose is to create hype; snowballing
• Some teaser trailers film footage just for the trailer
• End of trailer- Title then "Coming Soon" (No clear date is given yet since its so far ahead
• Not about Narrative or plot
• Often about genre and emotional feeling (scary, heartfelt, sad, happy etc.)
• Wrapped in enigma

What is a Teaser Trailer? First Concept Slideshow

Teaser trailers

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Link To Year 12 Blog

Here's a link to my Year 12 Blog:

http://tbmoviemedia.blogspot.com/2009/09/ideas.html