I love the movie trailer as a medium, and find it fascinating - I'd just about be willing to go to the movies to see the trailers, and then leave (though YouTube makes that less palatable than pre-YT).
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Best movie trailers ever? A few of my faves: Interstellar teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WzHXI5HizQ … Cloud Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s … Man of Steel teaser:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wArmHSPIvlQ …
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Favourite fact about trailers: they typically have 90-120 seconds, & yet people will often remember dozens of facts from them. Compare that to a typical speech or lecture, which may be an hour long, yet people often remember nothing from.
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The people who make trailers are mindbogglingly good at making information sticky.
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Also, curious fact: the quality of the trailer is correlated with the quality of the movie, but to some extent independent. Fr'instance I enjoyed "Man of Steel", but nowhere near as much as I enjoyed the trailer.
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Another trailer I love: the trailer for Brave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnGNe3SB9Fk … The movie was only so-so.
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The last 1 second of that trailer is an absolute masterpiece. If there were Oscars for 1-second shots, it would have deservedly won.
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More great trailers: full trailer for Man of Steel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4 … The Dark Knight Rises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gFwvozMHR4 … (Yeah, I'm a fan of both Nolans.)
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An aesthetic I like is when the use of music is deliberately restricted, and many Chris Nolan associated trailers do that well.
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The first 90 seconds of the Furious 7 trailer is marvellous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skpu5HaVkOc … I want to meet the genius who thought of that final jump, the car chase as art form.
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Context also really matters. The first trailer for the phantom menace after more than 15 years since the last star wars movie was tingle-inducing.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7bpG-zDJQ …
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It was really quite beautiful. Tingle-inducing, indeed. I was living in LA at the time, and emailed a friend in Rome asking if he wanted to come see it opening night. Emailed me back 90 seconds later to say he was buying plane tickets. Good times.
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