Frequently Asked Questions
- How to plan a great Trailer
- The first step in creating a great trailer is figuring out just how to push your product.
- Whether you're working on a video game or a comic the principles behind your trailer will remain the same and the most important one is simple. What makes your project the greatest of it's kind in the history of forever? A great place to
draw inspiration is from movie trailers. Hollywood has been making these things forever,
and they have it down to a science. Find a movie trailer of a similar genre to your piece and notice what draws you in. Your tone can be light and funny, tense and action packed, moving and poignant, or far–out experimental, it doesn't matter. What does matter is finding what your project does best and really driving that home. You don't want to give away too much, but just enough so the viewer just needs more and if you don't want to give away your best joke or your most dramatic moment, sacrificing the second most, however, can make the difference between picking up that viewer and losing them.
- How to make a great Trailer
Videos
- Movie file trailers share a lot in common with movie trailers as they're known both in form and function. If you need help with the technicalities of making your movie, check out our advice on creating videos.
- Your movie should only be a couple of minutes long, just enough to generate interest. For comics, creating a movie trailer requires some care as comics
only suggest movement by nature and you'll need to edit panels together in such a way to give viewers a feeling for your piece in just a fraction of your
panels. Don't be afraid to add text in complete frames or overlays on your art to help move thing along and get your message sent succinctly. Or,
like a movie trailers, provide a voiceover. Marvel popularized this form, and they do it well. Check out a few of
their comic trailers if you need some inspiration.
Frequently Asked Questions
