Modern movie trailers need to take a cue from the past and bring back momentous narrators.
For years, there was an unmistakable fixture in movie trailers. No matter what genre the film inhabited, its trailer was bound to be accompanied by a voice-over.
In a World Offered a Modern Take on a Classic Trope A modern take on the movie trailer narrator could even take this unique facet and take it in even more distinctive and exciting directions. As pointed out by works like Lake Bell’s 2013 movie In a World, the landscape of voice-over work is predominately occupied by white men.
Though some can seem like they drag on and on, movie trailers do not last forever. Per MPAA guidelines, they can only run up to 150 seconds in length, with rare exceptions going a bit longer. Cutting away to text on a separate background may only last a handful of seconds, but all those cutaways add up and can carve away precious seconds in a trailer. These promotional materials need all the help they can get cramming as much information as they can into a limited window of time.
Considering everything from Star Wars to Ghostbusters to even new Spider-Man movies is bent on wringing every drop of affection for the past from the wallets of moviegoers, why not give movie trailer voice-overs a resurgence? Inspiring warm feelings of nostalgic yearning in the hearts of moviegoers might be the perfect way to cement your trailer in the minds of the public, especially if it’s used to promote a new original property that’s not capitalizing on nostalgia in its plotline or...
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