Choice of Trailer Type

Our intention was to make a highlights trailer called Jilted. We preferred the look of a highlights trailer because we feel that they are more captivating and exiting due to the fact that one simple scene - unless action packed - can become fairly tedious. We also feel that our particular narrative idea is much too complicated for a scene trailer - we feel our narrative would seem so confusing to an audience member if they only get to see one small clip of it. We feel that a highlight trailer allows us to hint towards our narrative enough to let the audience have an idea of whats happening without feeling lost but also enables us to keep some mystery within it and not tell them everything. We liked the construction of both Pusher Trilogy and Evil Dead as highlight trailers - we felt that both trailers were able to capture and keep our attention as there was a lot going on and we were introduced to many characters briefly and the excitement and pace was kept throughout. We also watched an example of a scene trailer - Cloverfield (2008). Although this was an enjoyable trailer I felt as though we met each character in a fairly 'shambolic' way - quickly and messily. The only captivating part was when the Statue of Liberty head rolled down the street - however now the audience is aware this is going to happen and so it wont seem so thrilling while watching the actual film. I felt that this scene would be terribly boring during the actual film due to the fact that we have already watched it. Both of our favorite trailers were highlight trailers and kept to the usual horror trailer convention of the structure fast/slow/fast in terms of pace - it kept the excitement and thrill up and also built suspense. They were slow enough to creature a secure establishment of narrative and suspense and both included a fast montage of shots to create panic - brilliant for a conventional horror trailer.