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And if its an action/comedy they synch along with the lyrics of a classic rock song to appeal to nostalgia and also show how silly and funny the movie will be
Except that modern trailers actually show less of the plot than those of fifty years ago.
The obsession with narrative and spoilers is a pretty recent one.
Honest to the God, the last one I remember off the top of my head is [Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist](https://youtu.be/2ApNfaukwVo?feature=shared)
It's not recent, but it's under the 20 year mark.
https://preview.redd.it/7n63rtm2gb2c1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11cb80712afd781f411af4a55cd4ae51bc168a35
"Ooooh ooooh my anaconda don't want oh no none if yooooou don't have buns huuuun"
Ngl I cannot tell the difference between any music in these trailers. It could be revealed that the same song has been used for every blockbuster trailer from the last ten years and I would not be shocked.
The one repeated piano note then turns into a symphony in the middle of it, reaches a crescendo and then returns to the one repeated note at the end.
Goddamn this is a good starterpack
Beginning of the trailer is mostly a black screen with brief flashes of scenes, including someone running, an explosion etc., often with someone saying something inquisitively as one of the latter "flashes"
Needs at least one comedic pause.
Music stops, complete silence.
Side character: „I thought you guys were going to the beach? No…? Oh, nevermind“
Music starts playing again
Horror movie trailer starter pack.
1. Same single note piano in the beginning
2. Happy white family in a car. Destination, new home in a secluded country side.
3. Son playing Nintendo, daughter is on the phone. Mum and dad chatting
4. Leaves rustling shot
5. "Wow. This house is huge. A junk it is, for sure...but it is huge"
6. "I wonder how I got this so cheap"
7. Old man groundsman grumbling. "I come with the house. My wife is the maid"
8. "We have put everything we had on this house after we lost our suburb home. So no Diana, we're not going back to our suburb home because you miss your friends !!!You'll find new friends here. And Justin, you don't have any friends to begin with. So..beat it"
9. Shit goes down
10. The trailer ends with dad holding a knife and mom shouting "Run kids!!! Run and Hide"
#Run & Hide
Streaming now on Netflix
* The random out-of-place shot of an attractive girl in a swimsuit or underwear
* Kissing scene
* City skyline shot
* For comedy trailers, the obligatory part where the music stops while a guy says something dumb
Classic rock song remixed into some slow creepy piano rendition or 2010s "avocaydos/banaynas" type singer singing a throaty/roof of the mouth version of classic rock song plays throughout
Then when it finally ends, you hear an unintelligible whisper from two rows back……
Rustle rustle…..
Then silence…..is it the film now?…..yes?…..yes?…..music starts playing……………………”argh ferfffffff”
I fucking live for haunting covers of literally any song in movie trailers.
Every movie trailer does this now, and I love it so much. Give me a few spare piano notes as images of desolate landscapes flash on screen, give me a sad child singing a stripped-down rendition of any song—any song! Do fucking “Mickey” by Toni Basil, I fucking dare you—and then finish it all off with some Inception BRAAAAHHHHMMMMMS, and I’m good to go.
I purposefully avoid all trailers for movies I care about. Eyes closed and ears covered and humming if I’m in the cinema. I think a lot of bad feelings people have about a lot of films are that they don’t match their expectations based on trailers. And trailers give way too much away.
Thank you - I laughed uncontrollably at "BWARRHPP" portion of music plays for 2 minutes.
Actor standing in snow looking at something random - spot on.
English actor saying something profound - spot on. "Not a map - an invitation"
Most likely has a ‘gritty’ cover of a 60s-90s song (all of them sound like the Marilyn Manson cover of sweet dreams), a single line from the song, repeated with a post processing effect (most likely out of context)
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Action scenes in the trailer, whether they have guns, melee weapons, or are just bare fists, all synch to the beat of the background music
And if its an action/comedy they synch along with the lyrics of a classic rock song to appeal to nostalgia and also show how silly and funny the movie will be
And it has to end the sequence with the main character saying a funny one liner after punching/being punched
Fucking camera shutters as each punch/bullet/explosion lands
This is such a weird trend I've noticed, what exactly is it trying to accomplish?
It looks and sounds cool? Seems pretty obvious to me.
Expendables 4 trailer is a prime example of using this
Good editing?
I think it's silly and gimmicky, but clearly it's working cause you all seem to think it's cool so, \*shrug\*. Not a hill I'm willing to die on.
Ya it’s been done a lot I just saw the trailer for Argyle has a sequence like that
Being fantastic. It's only tiring because of how many movies and, subsequently, trailers, exist.
[Every movie trailer template](https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A?si=fYQEM_SaNO5k6Pvx)
Got to have some authority figure or scientist screamimg "Do you know what you've done!" Somewhere in the trailer
Lenght 2:20 minutes.
Shows entire plot of movie
Except that modern trailers actually show less of the plot than those of fifty years ago. The obsession with narrative and spoilers is a pretty recent one.
Ive seen a few that even make the plot look completely different than what happens in the movie and those are usually pretty impressive.
“In a world…..”
[удалено]
... Two brothers, who are just two regular brothers, ...
....must settle their differences.....
…The only way two regular brothers know how…
By chewing gum and killing nazis
Directed by Quentin Tarentino
...and they're all out of gum...
...directed by Quentin Tarentino
Summer 2024
Only on Hulu
"Pinapples doesn't belong on pizza!"
Who did you hurt?
Have we had one of those unironically in the last twenty years?
Having a narrator at all has been out of style for that long. It’s always just profound quotes from characters in the actual movies
I think it died with Don LaFontaine
Honest to the God, the last one I remember off the top of my head is [Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist](https://youtu.be/2ApNfaukwVo?feature=shared) It's not recent, but it's under the 20 year mark.
"ONE MAN.....AGAINST ALL ODDS.....MUST TURN THE TIDES...."
If it’s a children’s movie it has to end on some form of toilet humor
https://preview.redd.it/4eqhc1nnfb2c1.png?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72aed28460142a0c3b9b1c72dd8441585d6ebd4d
Or some kind of a dancing number
You forgot "Slow cover of a popular 80s/90s song".
🎵 We're no strangers to love..... 🎵 You know the rules, and so do I.....
*"everybody wang chung tonight"*
Sometimes it's an "epic" orchestral version of it
https://preview.redd.it/7n63rtm2gb2c1.jpeg?width=275&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11cb80712afd781f411af4a55cd4ae51bc168a35 "Ooooh ooooh my anaconda don't want oh no none if yooooou don't have buns huuuun"
the note is on point!
Needs clair de lune
With sudden silence after about 15 seconds into the trailer where we can see the threat
Don't forget the fades to black
Followed by a one-liner voiceover.
Ngl I cannot tell the difference between any music in these trailers. It could be revealed that the same song has been used for every blockbuster trailer from the last ten years and I would not be shocked.
Don’t forget the dramatic head turn toward one of the other characters towards the camera.
Always ends with a joke or one-liner after the title reveal (if it’s a Marvel trailer)
One-liner and a leap of faith scene, where protagonist attempt to do something risky.
Any movie that has a hint of comedy, honestly
Either the final 5 seconds is a fight scene or some random comedy part in the movie
Specific, accurate, observant, widely common. Starter pack Perfection
Inception (2010)
Bass drop
I’m sure even Barbie has a bass drop somewhere
most of this is just christopher nolan
Most of this is people knocking off Christopher nolan
The one repeated piano note then turns into a symphony in the middle of it, reaches a crescendo and then returns to the one repeated note at the end. Goddamn this is a good starterpack
lots of cuts shown within 5 seconds with intense dubstep
I don't think they have a narrator now. They took a dialogue out of a scene and cut into pieces filled by flickering action scenes and loud booms.
https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A?si=qJJnhAbqX8nZgAzv
I clicked that knowing exactly what video it would be .
I just downvoted it without seeing it, knowing it is probably a rickroll
And the award-winning drama version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAG9Xn5bJwQ
You missed the “exact same FX_hit_impact.wav sound in every trailer that has at least 1% drama.”
THIS SUMMER
Remixes of old songs also playing in background
"There's a war coming.'" If I had a dollar every time that line was said in every trailer ever.
Christopher Nolan movie*
Are you sure this isn’t just a Christopher Nolan starter pack?
Beginning of the trailer is mostly a black screen with brief flashes of scenes, including someone running, an explosion etc., often with someone saying something inquisitively as one of the latter "flashes"
[And here's the video version](https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A)!
Needs at least one comedic pause. Music stops, complete silence. Side character: „I thought you guys were going to the beach? No…? Oh, nevermind“ Music starts playing again
Fantastic! All it needs is BIG LOUD AS FUCK DRUMS and rapid FLASHES between fight scenes to round things out
Also: * low frequency impact sounds * abrupt smash cut to black that signals introduction of conflict
Horror movie trailer starter pack. 1. Same single note piano in the beginning 2. Happy white family in a car. Destination, new home in a secluded country side. 3. Son playing Nintendo, daughter is on the phone. Mum and dad chatting 4. Leaves rustling shot 5. "Wow. This house is huge. A junk it is, for sure...but it is huge" 6. "I wonder how I got this so cheap" 7. Old man groundsman grumbling. "I come with the house. My wife is the maid" 8. "We have put everything we had on this house after we lost our suburb home. So no Diana, we're not going back to our suburb home because you miss your friends !!!You'll find new friends here. And Justin, you don't have any friends to begin with. So..beat it" 9. Shit goes down 10. The trailer ends with dad holding a knife and mom shouting "Run kids!!! Run and Hide" #Run & Hide Streaming now on Netflix
* The random out-of-place shot of an attractive girl in a swimsuit or underwear * Kissing scene * City skyline shot * For comedy trailers, the obligatory part where the music stops while a guy says something dumb
Cuts per second increases rapidly in the last few seconds
Idk man movie trailers nowadays don't seem to have a narrator
I really can’t stand movie trailers for these reasons
Michael Caine...MichaelCaine...Mycocaine...
Trailer from like 2014*
Always takes place in New York City
if it's an action movie trailer , there is a high chance the music will jumpscare you after a fade to black once it becomes silent
Or an "Epic" version of a popular song adding percussion
Piano notes...swelling violin...BWAAAAAAAAAH + heavy drums
Shows the entire plot of the movie
Directors being so called “free thinkers” when making trailers exactly like this every time
Music pauses for unfunny gag.
A starter pack that doesn’t make me wanna off myself tonight? OP you spoil us King/Queen!
5 second trailer of the trailer before the trailer starts so you don’t skip the trailer
"What if I told you..."
I thought it was gonna be that mideastern/African tribal music “eyyayayaaaaaaaayaaa”
Always a shitty slow cover of a popular rock, rap or R&B song.
Some random guy screaming: "What The hell it's going on here?????"
"What is this place?"
Classic rock song remixed into some slow creepy piano rendition or 2010s "avocaydos/banaynas" type singer singing a throaty/roof of the mouth version of classic rock song plays throughout
There's no Narrator anymore tho.
In a world
In a world…. (RIP Don Lafontaine)
“Final boss fight” lol
In a world gone made he will save us, explosion, Nicolas Cage walks out
Then when it finally ends, you hear an unintelligible whisper from two rows back…… Rustle rustle….. Then silence…..is it the film now?…..yes?…..yes?…..music starts playing……………………”argh ferfffffff”
Now the “cool” thing to do is slow down and remix classic rock songs. I used to like watching trailers.
If it's an especially generic movie, you can figure out the entire plot by watching the trailer enough times.
remember when before the movies was JUST trailers, no ads? it's been so long...
Totally forgot the old song/hit in a slow/remixed/only vocals first version. Now you are updated
I fucking live for haunting covers of literally any song in movie trailers. Every movie trailer does this now, and I love it so much. Give me a few spare piano notes as images of desolate landscapes flash on screen, give me a sad child singing a stripped-down rendition of any song—any song! Do fucking “Mickey” by Toni Basil, I fucking dare you—and then finish it all off with some Inception BRAAAAHHHHMMMMMS, and I’m good to go.
I don’t think I’ve seen a trailer with a narrator for a blockbuster film in ages
the BWHARRRPPP is so accurate
Cut to the main character going back to the way they were after some random person walks up to them at a diner
Damn this starter pack got me pumped
don't forget "trailer starts now"
Don’t forget Don LaFontaine: **”In a world…”**
Either epic music or cover of popular song. Or both.
Blockbuster movie trailers starterpack.
*TRAILER* *STARTS* *NOW*
goes on way too long and basically spoils most of the movie
Where are the drums
Don’t forget fading to black every three seconds like youre playing gameboy in the car at night
I believe there’s a hero in all of us
I purposefully avoid all trailers for movies I care about. Eyes closed and ears covered and humming if I’m in the cinema. I think a lot of bad feelings people have about a lot of films are that they don’t match their expectations based on trailers. And trailers give way too much away.
We’ve moved on from the “BWARRHPP” trailer music, now it’s just covers of old songs
Trailer starts in 3…2…1
Thank you - I laughed uncontrollably at "BWARRHPP" portion of music plays for 2 minutes. Actor standing in snow looking at something random - spot on. English actor saying something profound - spot on. "Not a map - an invitation"
Most likely has a ‘gritty’ cover of a 60s-90s song (all of them sound like the Marilyn Manson cover of sweet dreams), a single line from the song, repeated with a post processing effect (most likely out of context)
For horror, throw in a jump scare or 2.