Sunday, 4 October 2009

Why do film trailers exist?

Film trailers are advertisements for films that are soon to be exhibited at the cinema. The term of "trailer" came from the fact that the trailer used to be played at the end of a film, however they found that people didnt stick around to watch them. So they where moved to before the film started, but kept the name of a "trailer".
More recently trailers have grown online, and 10 billion videos are being watched annually.
The purpose of a trailer is to attract an audience to a film, and parts are pulled from the film that appear to be the "best parts" of the film, but are chosen carefully enough not to spoil the film. Trailers have to acheieve this in less than two and a half minutes.

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