Talk:Trailer (film)

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I'm putting in [[Pride and Prejudice (2005 film), it won best Romance trailer at the Golden Trailer awards, beating Brokeback Mountain. Here it is:

Best Romance Pride and Prejudice, Focus Features, Mojo LLC

Brokeback Mountain, Focus Features, Seismic Productions

Casanova, Walt Disney Pictures, Big Picture Entertainment

Must Love Dogs, Warner Bros., Open Road Ent.

Here is the link: http://www.goldentrailer.com/gta7.html

17:00, 17 July 2006 (PST)

Not sure where to put it, but I'd say a mention of an award for trailers, The Golden Hitch (...), deserves a mention. See http://www.goldentrailer.com/ Trekphiler 17:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Is there any information available on the parody "turn your cell phone off" trailers?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.193.94.173 (talk • contribs) 15:46, 9 January 2006

Are they really trailers? Arn't they a combination of ads and information about turning the phonee of?/ Lokal Profil 22:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Out of date 2 Notable trailers 3 Satire 4 Or video games? 5 Apple's Final Cut Pro 6 Why was 'Parts of a Trailer' nuked? 7 Contradiction 8 Yes and No 9 Articles with limited geographic scope?? 10 US MPAA rating cards section

[edit] Out of date

This article is hopelessly out of date. Ity barely mentions the phenomenal rise of video clip trailers on the internet and really needs a paragraph on the subject, TV Genius 13:04, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

It actually says "Trailers have become immeasurably more important on the internet during 2006." - wt... trailers have been around on the internet for years and nothing too important in 2006 has happend to make them "immeasurably" so... —EatMyShortz 16:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable trailers

Exactly what makes these notable? With entries like Superman Returns and Dead Man's Chest in there, it seems like this has just become a "blockbusters of the summer" list. —EatMyShortz 16:04, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• I completely agree with you, as I was going to start a topic, but you beat me to it! If we don't define why these trailers are notable, but just make a list of movie trailers that we personally like (or some other basis), this list serves no purpose but listcruft. Either have somebody define the section, with supporting evidence of notability to specific films, or the section should be deleted. --Porqin 19:05, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Satire

Including a reference to Pablo Francisco for his satire of the movie trailer might be good to include. Hoagie3000 15:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Or video games?

With an entire site existing dedicated to video game trailers, I think that while we shouldn't make a section SPECIFICALLY for games, it's worth noting somewhere in there that there are now about as many trailers for video games as there are for movies.

[edit] Apple's Final Cut Pro

There is no reference when saying "Most of prominent trailer cutting companies, Aspect Ratio, Trailer Park, and New Wave Media, have their editors work on Apple's Final Cut Pro." and it sounds more like a commercial. Jeffrey.Kleykamp 19:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why was 'Parts of a Trailer' nuked?

Some time around may 15, this entire section was deleted. This was a very interesting and accurate description of the parts of a trailer, laid out in a good manner. Can someone restore this?

[edit] Contradiction

The article states that trailers are designed not to give away spoilers then says that trailers often tell the exact story of the movie even giving away 'twists' - The article is in need of a overhaul to correct this internal contradiction as well as achieve an overall coherence.

[edit] Yes and No

After reading these above notes, and having done some research on movie trailers, I have these comments and suggestions.

1. Teaser/Trailers are a major and essential part of the movie marketing scheme, and therefore are notable. They are unique in that they usually do not include scenes from the movie as has been noted. But their purpose, their creativity and their place in theatrical marketing is of near equal value. Portions of the Teaser article might be folded into Trailers, and lose the other junk stuff.

2. Naming one set of Golden Trailer winners sort of mandates you list all winners for as many years as the Golden Trailer and Key Art Awards have been around. That's a big list.

3. While video game trailers are also fun, there are not as many video trailers as movie trailers, and as huge as that industry is, video games are not movies (yet), so do not fit into an article about movie trailers. Possibly for an article about video game marketing, or musical composition for advertising and marketing.

4. The term and mention of video clip trailer, as in YouTube clips, is a misnomer and is not relevant because these are not trailers, they are not studio created. They are most often snippets copied from the movie by consumers and are unofficial and quite often unapproved by the MPAA process. Home movie, consumer-created movie-style clip shows are not what the article is about. It's about professional trailers. When a studio 'does' create a set of clips for MySpace, YouTube or other social network sites, they are merely posting scenes, not artistically created trailers, teaser trailers or even TV advertising, so "clips" on social network sites do not qualify for an article about the movie trailer industry.

5. The turn-your-cellphone-off, don't pirate movies, donate to xxx foundation or whatever, and ads for cars, softdrinks, TV shows or other product are not 'MOVIE TRAILERS' they are advertisements, commercials or PSA's (public service announcements).

[edit] Articles with limited geographic scope??

Movie trailers are produced and viewed around the world in theaters, on DVD, on broadcast and cable in over 100 languages. What prompted this negative tag as being to local for possible deletion? Bsteph1 21:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

It's flagged for expansion, not deletion. All the detail about green and red bands, etc. only refers to trailers in American cinemas. The rest of the world has different ratings systems. Chris 42 13:46, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, that's a good point, I pulled this portion of of the entire section that was flagged for clarity. Info about them should probably not be removed entirely, as a large number of trailers appear around the world with the MPAA cards still on them, so there's some merit to some (less wordy) inclusion as long as it's defined as being a U.S.-centric portion of a trailer.Bsteph1 00:16, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] US MPAA rating cards section

Why does this section have to contain the 'worldwide view' banner since the title of the section clearly narrows the scope to the United States? Just curious. Joshr915 (talk) 21:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)