Theatrical Trailers

A typical theatrical trailers are between 1-2 minutes long, and shows the most exciting parts of the film which leads there audience hooked into wanting to watch the film on its realease date. Trailers are commonly shown in cinemas,but with all these social networking sites, "facebook,myspace" there coming more popular to be shown on them, and "youtube" is is another very popular site which users can upload, share and view videos.

An introduction to trailers

The term trailer comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theater after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers as a whole are now shown before the film starts, but a teaser trailer is normally about 30 seconds to a minute long which includes the best shots of the film into that. They are sometimes shown when the film is still in production and in the editing process as a result they sometimes feature a particular scenes and alernatae versions of scences that arent sometimes in the finished product.

An example of an early teaser trailer is superman a film by Richard Donner it was nearly a year late, it was designed to re-invigorate interest in the release.