Stand up comedy and trailers have a lot in common, and understanding their structural similarities can help you better understand how to how to make better trailers.
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Here are some simple montage editing lessons that you can learn from the introduction to the Japanese reality TV show “Terrace House.”
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Cutting a trailer for the first time is very intimidating, but production music made specifically for trailers is a fantastic way to learn the typical 3-act structure of a trailer.
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The trailer for Coffee and Cigarettes manages to be entertaining and engaging without using the typical three-act structure of a movie trailer. How do you make a trailer for an anthology of short stories?
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Unless you have outside restrictions, the length of a trailer shouldn't be the first question in mind, because good editing can make two minutes fly by, and bad editing can make one minute feel like an eternity.
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Teaser trailers are often even better than the full trailers because they have to be so enticing that people maintain interest, yet don't know enough so that they can make a full decision on whether or not they want to see it. How do you strike this balance?
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A brief trend in trailer editing was music covers of classic themes using a simple and understated piano score. Why was this a thing, and what were the trailer producers thinking when they did it?
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The trailer for the multiplayer mode of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is a crowning example of the potential of in-game trailers. Here's what makes it so amazing.
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Transitions are the glue that make a great trailer; they're one of the hardest things to edit, but learning how to master the various techniques opens up a world of possibilities.
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How to make your game trailer like a literal tutorial, and why you might want to do it.
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How to think of a game trailer as a video tutorial, and spice it up with some in-world flavor.
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How to think of a game trailers like a tutorial, and communicate via simple shot selection and editing.
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There are a number of things that I think about while editing a trailer that guide my decision making. Here's what they are, and how I arrived at them in my career as an editor.
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The trailer for the film "Little Children" is a favorite of mine for its unconventional use of sound design in lieu of music.
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Trailers are notorious for containing spoilers, but there are ways to use spoilery shots without alerting the audience. How can this be done, and what does it look like when it's done wrong?
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