A Film TRAILER:



This is a film trailer, a film trailer is used to advertise a movie and to promote it. Film trailers will be different clips from a movie selected in order to bring a viewer and captivate their attention, a trailer will not follow the timeline of the story but is instead a montage of clips. In the trailer of Kick-Ass the clip begins slow with the man standing on top of the building however the clip progresses and begins to quicken in pace, shots of the pedestrians gazing up and the man falls from the building. Even here the pace quickens as he falls further and further until this man hits the car. This part of the trailer was to pull in the audience and from here the clips through the film are played in the style of a montage of events to introduce each character.



However in an opening sequence you find that there is a longer time period before the action settles in and the pace quickens. Instead it is the audience getting to know the main character - aided by a narration - which would be recorded over the clip. In an opening sequence the storyline is linear and makes more sense than that of a trailer where any clip can be put in any desired order as the aim of a trailer is to draw the attention not tell the plot.