Codes and Conventions of a Teaser Trailer

 Codes and conventions of a teaser trailer

A teaser trailer is usually between 30 seconds and a minute and a half long. It shows you a basic outline of what the film could be about, giving the audience a brief insight leaving them wanting more. A teaser trailer is often made while the film or TV show is still in production or being edited. It may also contain scenes that are not actually in the final product, as some scenes may be cut when editing.
Most teaser trailers are released up to a year and a half before the film comes out, hence why they are called teaser trailers. Most contain either once short sequence of clips or just one clip in them, and they tend to focus on the characters in the film or show rather than the plot. The pace of a teaser trailer is usually fast, or speeds up as the trailer progresses.


Teaser Trailers make you aware of a new film that is still being edited or produced. Some Teaser Trailer, such as Trainspotting  (1996) show just the first ideas of what they want to produce for the real film- and not necessarily what they will produce when it comes to that stage, as they may decide in the editing that they don't want to include that particular scene which we have already seen.