The differences between a trailer and the opening two minutes : Joshua Jeffs

The differences between a trailer and the opening two minutes

Features of a Trailer

• Can show various parts of the story 
• Shows mostly highlights/high action parts of the story 
• key features of the story are shown
• used to draw the viewer in
• little detail

Features of the opening two minutes

• Chronological (mostly)
• Only the start of the story is shown 
• Main features of the story are a mystery 
• viewer is told the start of the story in detail
• may not contain high amounts of action

Trailers usually show highlighted parts of the story containing high amounts of action to draw the viewer in to watch it and key parts of the story and shown but no answers are given.

In the opening two minutes the story starts off and is usually done in chronological order and displays who the protagonist is, it goes into large amount of detail about the story and why the protagonist is doing what they are.