Genre Choice for Trailer

We wanted to change to a different genre and our first idea was a horror trailer hence the reason for the original horror deconstruction of Friday the 13th. However as a group, we thought that making this kind of trailer would be more difficult than it is worth because of the cost, effect to an audience and other groups in the class were strongly considering it. We wanted to do our own genre and we finally decided to do an action trailer based in the 1980s. We didn’t want to do a modern day action film because of the immediate similarities to the microscoped action films out recently and we wanted to have a set era and focus for the trailer. Previously we have worked on other genres and action was one we hadn't worked on before so it was something we all wanted to work at and succeed at.

We then researched into different action film genres from the 1980s, like Starsky and Hutch to get inspiration for our trailer. We feel that we now know what we need to do to create a successful trailer for this genre and era.