We cut to Fletcher cuing his band to start playing.Īh-five, six, and. Don't worry about the numbers, don't worry about what the other guys are thinking. We cut to Fletcher talking to Andrew as he leans against a wall. Simmons), an older man, walking into a room and hanging up his coat and hat. As he continues, we see a clip of Terence Fletcher (J.K.
I'm part of Shaffer's top jazz orchestra - it's the best music school in the countryĪs Andrew speaks, we see brief clips of him standing outside of his school, then see him practicing drums. Nicole laughs, we see the couple's feet touch under the table. I really like the music that they play - Bob Ellis on the drums. We see Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller), a college-age young man, talking to Nicole (Melissa Benoist), a woman of similar age, in a deli. We open with a shot of a New York City street at night.
Don't waste any time introducing the basic facts of your movie to your audience. For instance, the original trailer for Office Space (1999) displays the iconic "gold-text-and-spotlights" 20th Century Fox logo by having it print from an office Xerox machine.Įstablish your mood, genre, and main character. Note also that, in rare cases, the standard logos of the studio and/or production company are creatively modified to fit the mood of the trailer.In fact, most trailers use the precious seconds spent showing these logos to start playing music that establishes the mood of the trailer (more on this below) and/or playing audio dialog from the film.
Note, though, that you don't necessarily have to wait until these images have finished displaying to start introducing your audience to your film.
These images, though brief, are important &dash the people involved with the film want to receive due credit for the time and money they've spent on it &dash so don't forget them. Think back to the last movie trailer you saw &dash unless it was for an extremely small-budget independent movie, there's a good chance that the first thing you saw in the trailer wasn't footage from the movie itself, but instead a few quick screens showing the logos of the studio that made the film, the production company or distributor, and so on. Start with brief screens to display production company information.