Film Trailer Checklist

After watching multiple film trailers I thought of making a checklist to guide us through the preparation phase of making our thriller trailer. Here I have wrote a basic outline of what I hope we can achieve to include in our trailer.

1) Starts slowly with dialogue
2) A lot of slow cinematics (B-ROLL)
3) Starts to speed up when the antagonist is introduced
4) Action scenes compilation
5) Short scene where music goes quiet and maybe one line of dialogue
6) High impact soundtrack kicks in
7) Lots of action, impressive cinematography
8) Some voice-overs possibly
9) Title
10) One scene low action/comedy and music just something to wow the audience

1) Counselling
2) Cinematics of grave stones and family photos
3) Cinematic of antagonist but not showing
4) Flashbacks of torture scenes
5) Talking to the counsellor low music
6) High impact soundtrack/ running away from the barn.
7) Action, seeing the killer everywhere
8) "I can't kill what's everywhere"
9)  Title
10) Shooting the camera, then dropping gun.