Super 8 Teaser Trailer

Here is the teaser trailer for Super 8. The trailer doesn't show anyone being cast in the movie, nor does it have anyone names in the credits within the clip, all it shows it a truck skipping the crossing of a train and then driving towards the train causing it to crash. All the clip gives away is that it is in area 51, an area renound for aliens and supernatural incidents. I think that this movie will be good because the teaser trailer is quick and fast paced, the music goes with it aswell, it builds suspense to when the truck crashes into the front of the train. As tease trailers go, tis one is quite long, with it being 1 minute and 30 seconds long, however it doesnt have lots of detail within it, so I think this really shows us, as media students what kind of length & detail we can go into when we are producing our teaser trailers. When we do come produce our teaser trailers we will have to have a think about what kind of shots we can use in the clip, as we will play around with them as much as we can. In this teaser trailer there is a total of 23 different shots, all showing us the action of the scene. this gives us a good idea on how many we can include in our teaser trailer. The shots, on average are about 3 seconds long each, which shows us that we can have over 10 shots in our teaser trailer for it to still be good, we dont need to have time lengthly shots for our trailer to be good. The trailer plays around with the angles of the shots and it jumps around quite a bit, from the shots to showing us who directed the film. At 34-35 seconds the shots jumps from the truck & the train colliding with one another to the shot of who directs the film. I think this is effective because it cuts into the middle of the action and you are left to read who directed it. Steven Spielberg, has directed lots of films and we know from them that one is going to action packed and will probably have cost a lot of money which should, in theory make it a must-see!