Trailer Pattern

The genre of our film is Action-Thriller. There are certain conventions to a Thriller genre that we will have to use which are to create suspense. We can create suspense using different trailer patterns. The first trailer pattern we could use is the 'Character-Driven' trailer. This trailer pattern concentrates on a single or group of people who have a huge impact on our media production. This is shown in films that have a comic book adaptation like the 'Avengers' and Batman. Our film protagonist is a young businessman. He could be described as an:

• A young, naive businessman who doesn't take anything for granted
• A father figure that is involved in dangerous side of life
• Boss with extra-ordinary friends
• Years of curiosity

We could use these phrases to describe our character in our teaser trailer production.

Another trailer pattern is a 'Plot Driven' teaser trailer. In this trailer pattern, the audience are compelled to viewing or listening to there favourite character and finding our hints to there characters role in the film. This trailer pattern could link with our film plot as we can make our trailer centred around our main protagonist but we have 3 protagonist. This will create mystery and suspense about our other characters if we decide to base our trailer on one of our protagonist.

A common trailer pattern is a 'Trigger-Event' teaser trailer. This trailer builds up slowly to a change in the plot which triggers other things to happen in the film. This is used commonly in Action-Thriller genres which is the genre of our film. We can build up a story in our trailer and then have a point where the story all changes and so the teaser trailer changes in pace or story. This can help create suspense and tension as our audience will be confused and would want to find out more about our film.

The final trailer pattern in a 'Theme centred' teaser trailer. In our film production, we have many themes but our main themes are violence and justice. However if we concentrate on a teaser trailer pattern on certain themes, we may give away to much of our film.

I believe for our production, we will be using a mixture of all these teaser trailer patterns. By doing so, we can pick the most helpful aspects of each pattern for our film production so we can make a better teaser trailer. Inevitably we are trying to make a teaser trailer that makes our audience want to see more and we believe this can be achieved by using a mixture of trailer patterns.