We used several intertitles to fill out our trailer and to make our story evident. Our first intertitle is 'stranded in the middle of nowhere'. This builds suspense from the beginning and is often used in successful film trailers. The wording itself gives the characters a sense of vulnerability and offers the inference that they are in immediate danger. Due to ours being under a minute and being a teaser trailer it was crucial we set these factors in place from the outset.
Our second intertitle is more basic and is a generic intertitle stating that our film is 'from the producers of Karma and Rose'. Members of our group played a part in creating these two films and it has shown to be successful in previous film trailers, such as Annabelle.
Our third and fourth intertitles are linked but are placed before and after our montage. The first one is 'in the fight for survival' and it is followed by 'they must fight back'. The first intertitle begins to build adrenaline for the montage and the second one acts as a conclusion to the montage allowing for us to bring the speed back down to end our trailer on an eerie conversation about the haunting. We ensured these intertitles were short, as see in 1408, as we did not want to risk our demographic losing interest.
good evidence of you linking your planning back to your research into existing films here Joe.
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