Trailer Conventions.

This is the trailer for once of the my favourite thriller movie 'BadBoys 2'. This trailer has similar themes to what I am going to produce in my film trailer. It has cars in and different ways of conveying speed and adrenaline which i believe I can use in my trailer. I do realise that this film was produced on a massive multi million pound budget and obviously I do not have that but i do plan to take some of the conventional ideas and adapt them into my trailer.

Firstly the trailer starts with a setting shot showing the 'Miami' billboard this tells the audience straight away that this is set in a large scale city. This gives the audience and idea of what surrounding and locations to expect. Then we see a lot of jump and flash cuts in the trailer which is typical as it is a montage of different scenes from the movie. The dialogue used in the trailer is kept to short sentences and are usually serious of comical. These are edited to that they can be out of context and give the trailer a completely different feel to the movie. As this is a Thriller genre trailer you would expect there to be lots of action shots this is another aspect i want to be able to bring into my trailer. Also the music tend to contain drum beats and guitars and tends to build suspense and maximise the action with thrilling music.

During the Trailer you will also see the actors that are starring in the movie and there names will normally be presented onto a black background. You will also see the major companies that have been involved in the production of the movie this allows the audience to see which companies have created and also creates awareness about these companies. You will also see the directors name in a similar way to the actors.

Finally the main aim of this trailer is to give the audience a rough idea of the storyline and some of the sub stories in the trailer, I believe that this trailer does this very well and also has given me many ideas that i can take forward and adapt to the themes of my trailer.





Above is the 'Transporter 3' trailer this is another favourite trailer of mine as again it has similar aspects and conventions to the 'Badboys 2' trailer. In the opening shot we see the shot of the main actor this directly shows the audience who is in the movie. Again we see lots of text in the trailer with dialogue this is done as the movie is a sequel and the text links in with that. Again typical to a Thriller trailer we see lots of action and glass smashing which ties in with the films massive budget. Following on from 'BadBoys 2' we see lots of jump cuts and montage editing.

This trailer gives the audience some background story about the characters and again uses the mixture of comical and serious dialogue. We also see different types of fast car shots that creates adrenaline and i believe that this can be used in my trailer. I also like the use of different camera angles used in the trailer to manipulate speed.