Improved teaser trailer - influenced by 500 Days of Summer teaser trailer

It was useful to look at the 500 Days Of Summer trailer as it was a teaser trailer so therefore more similar to what we were trying to achieve than The Time Traveler's Wife trailer. There were aspects of the teaser trailer that we have tried to incorporate into our teaser trailer although there were also aspects that wouldn't work in our trailer due to the difference in genres - our film is a period drama and 500 Days of Summer has aspects of comedy.

We decided that we wanted to adapt the original beginning of our teaser trailer with a variety of different shots, we found inspiration from this teaser trailer. At the beginning of the trailer the audience sees the two main protagonists however there is a shot from the viewers right hand side (the male protagonists point of view) then this is followed by a shot from the viewers left hand side (the female protagonists point of view.) The shot is of the same senario but just from different angles. We liked how this worked as it signified to the audience that they were seeing the situation from both characters points of veiw. We incorporated this strategy into the beginning of our teaser trailer as be believed it worked well.

The main inspiration we got from this teaser trailer was to incorporate a split screen into our teaser trailer. We wanted to do this as we believed it would add something different and unique to it and also let the audience see a situation (in this case the main male protagonist with his fiancee) and the reaction the main female protagonist has to it, side by side. This is what has been done in the 500 Days Of Summer trailer.

We also liked one of the shots in this trailer of the main female protagonist. She is in the background and there is an object in the foreground. The camera focuses on her then slowly focuses on the object in the foreground, meaning the background (the female protagonist) is blurred. We wanted to incorporate this into the first shot through the tree branches however after research we discovered it had to be done with the camcorder not the editing process. We therefore used two shots of the same scene and just used a filter on FinalCut Express to blur the first shot and then leave the second shot clear. This created a similar look.

Although, as mentioned previously, there were aspects of this teaser trailer that wouldn't work for our teaser trailer. One of these is the titles. In this trailer the titles are brightly coloured and eye catching, this wouldn't suit our trailer due to the traditional/classic style of it. Also, although effective, this trailer uses cartoon graphics. This again wouldn't be suitable for our teaser trailer because of the time setting.

However this teaser trailer did reassure us that we could produce an effective trailer with enough anchorage without having diegetic dialogue, which was a concern of ours before viewing this trailer.