Animation trailers

As my final project will be to make a trailer or teaser, I considered it important to watch interesting trailers to realize that information in a given animation gives more importance. On the website Bloop (s.d.) we can see some important things to build a trailer and it refers to six steps:

1. choose our shoots well. We have to think about which moments we will choose to draw attention to our animation. If we choose without great care we run the risk of the trailer is a bad representation of our animation. This is an essential step that for the creator of the animation is difficult because there are many moments in the plot in the animation that he will consider as good, but he will have to make a choice between them and think about the sequence he will give to these shots: whether it is sequential or no, it follows the presentation of the characters or not, it presents final scenes at the beginning, among other possible solutions that can arise in a trailer.

2. It is the phase of choosing how we will compose the shoots. We have to do the assembly and, for that, we will put the ones we want, the best, the most interesting, in order to build the trailer.

3. Then we have to start perceiving the chosen sequence, starting to give movement to the shoots chosen by us.

4. We must also correct some elements of the composition we have chosen and modify it as necessary.

5. Correct small imperfections, adjust the movements of the characters (checking the speed, adjustment of movement, and sounds, among other details).

In order to better understand all these aspects, I watched a set of trailers. I usually attend the animation festival in Lisbon, where the "monstra prizes" are awarded to be able to understand which animations win prizes and why. I considered it essential to be able to see examples of trailers of award-winning animations and understand what the options of each animator are in the process of building their trailer (from the type of animation, time sequence of the trailer, presentation of characters, how the story tells, how the music used and voices of the characters, among so many other situations).

I share the links to some animations that helped me understand the process of building trailers: