at the beginning of horror trailers a green screen will be presented and will give the classification of the film, the example on the left is for a 18 rated film and has been labeled with restricted. in trailers this image will be displayed for a minimum of five seconds and following this they will either start the trailer and show the production company logo around 20 seconds into the trailer or they will show the certification screen for five seconds and then show the production company logo for around two seconds directly after.
at the start of my trailer i am going to use both certification screen and production company logo within the first 10 seconds of my trailer. looking at other trailers it can take up to eight seconds to show both logos and during this time i have noticed that there will be some small use of sound/music so the audience doesn't get bored or it will be silent for the eight seconds. i have now come to realization that i have a eight second window at the start of my trailer that i can use to expand on my story.
Because my trailer is about a group of friends who get lost i wanted to expand on the social aspect of the group by possibly using a phone conversation between two of the friends. This phone conversation will consist of a mobile phone ringing for around three seconds and then one sentence. the sentence will be "are you coming on this walk then" (the person who says this will be the one who phoned and the person who answered the phone wont say anything). all of this will be happening as the certification and the production company signs are being shown. i believe that this is a efficient way of using the eight second time gap i have at the start of the trailer as i would rather have something small that expands a tiny bit of the plot than using music to fill the eight seconds so the audience doesn't get bored.
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