First Draft of how the trailer will play out.
5-7 seconds
· Starts with close up of Nathan’s eyes, he is having a night mare, sweating, eyes open rapidly.
10 seconds
· Goes to a short montage of clips, consisting of Nathan boxing, and the mercenaries preparing their weapons.
5-7 seconds
· The leader of B.R.O.M.A is prepping his agents on a £50,000 kill that they need to get, the camera pans over a list of bounty’s at the top is a picture of a question mark, with a £5 million bounty.
5 Seconds
· Zooms into picture of Jason, where a graphic match will occur to show the real life Jason outside.
7 seconds
· Mercenaries will be placed around the area in which Jason is situated, getting ready for the word from Liam to kill him. What the mercenaries don’t know is that Nathan is if the area watching what is going on.
15 seconds
· Mercenaries get the word to kill Jason, Jason is currently dealing drugs, dhuran shoots the dealer, and Jason runs. Dhuran will chase on foot, Nathan stands and watches Jason run past, and when Dhuran passes him, Nathan hits him in the face with his elbow. Bringing him to the floor, picking up his gun and killing him
5 seconds
· Lewis runs into Jason and is about to kill him, Nathan jumps in, and starts a fight with Lewis.
25 seconds
· The clips of the fight a short condensed 1/2 second clips, switching between the fight and other scenes such as Liam finding out who Nathan is/other parts of the film and explaining why he is worth so much, aborting the original plans, to go all out to kill Nathan and get the £5 million.
15 seconds
· Finally the last scene is of Nathan on the floor with Liam standing over him with a gun pointed to his head, saying ‘You’re worth way more than £5 million.’
-Nathan Childs/Lewis Kerr.
I'm a little confused by the timings here. Do they relate to sections within the trailer? Clearly they would be far too long for individual shots. Your teaser will need to be fast paced with lots of edits as it's from the action/thriller genre. I think perhaps you are trying to tell too much of the story rather than create anticipation and expectation. You must analyse some existing thriller teasers and observe their conventions. Consider what they include and also what they omit and leave to the later (and longer) theatrical trailer.
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