The Difference Between a Trailer and an Opening Sequance.

Trailer:


This is a trailer from the film 'Se7en'. The purpose of a trailer is to appeal to the viewers and make you interested enough to want to watch the whole film. It should draw you in and come across as exciting and intriguing. Trailers show the overview of the plot and give you a brief feel of the story line. By not giving away the whole story, it makes us want to fill in the gaps and become curious into what happens.

The conventions include:
- Fast pace clips and use of flash transitions between them builds up excitement.
- The editing only shows the best bits, without giving away to much.
- Voice over explains the plot/narrative.
- Energetic music creates an atmosphere.
- Red words appearing are keywords that describe the film and by having this blood like colour helps us understand the type of genre the film is.

Opening Sequance:


The opening sequence lists the most important members of the production. These credits can either have a seperate blank screen of their own which would be a title sequence, but in this case, 'Se7en' has used an opening sequence - placing the credits over action.

In this particular opening we are shown the process in making a type of scrap book, documenting all the people that the killer has killed. Immediately the viewer is intrieged by what is being made, what it means and what is being recorded into it. Its establishing our interest and slowly settles us viewers into the film. This is quite difficult as the creators of this sequence cant predict the mood of the audience or how difficult peoples days has been. Their job is to take us away from all the stress and drama outside of the cinema and draw us in so we can immense ourselves into the film and forget about the outside world and put ourselves into the film to last up till the ending.