Genre

In our lesson, we watched the theatrical trailer for 'Interstellar' and we had to determine what we thought the genre was for each moment when watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LqzF5WauAw

Then we watched the teaser trailer for 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' and again analysed the possible genres and conventions in this trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sagy5ceJk8 

Possible genres to explore:

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Crime/ Gangster

Drama and Melodramas

Epics/ Historical

Horror

Musicals

Science Fiction

War

Westerns

Biographical

Chick Flicks

Detective and Mystery

Disaster

Fantasy

Film Noir

Road

Romance

Sport

Supernatural

Superhero

Animated

Classics

Documentary

Thriller

Zombie

Cult

Serial

Silent

Genre Theory

Trailers as a Promotional Tool

https://prezi.com/p/y7irc4bowqws/

What are trailers for?

Trailer are for the advertisement of a film to an audience so the production company can gain money when that audience is interested in watching it through the purchase of a DVD, rental or through a subscription on a TV/film entertainment service (i.e. Netflix), or see it at the cinema.
Teaser trailers are often used to tease an audience; it deliberately previews none or a small amount of the film to make the audience intrigued and then suddenly stop it so the audience will want to see more and watch the entire film.
Theatrical trailers tend to be longer and give more information away about the film but still intrigued the audience (for example, they may reveal that Daniel Craig is featuring as the new James Bond by having quick cut of his face in some action shots holding a gun).