WatchingTheTrailer

The official Twitter account of the 'Watching the Trailer' research project, exploring audience attitudes to the film trailer

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Do a PhD with one of our founders!

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Our project lead is featured here in a look at contemporary trailers (with a French perspective)!

[Keith M. Johnston @KeithMJohnston]

A great article here (in French) on modern trailers from @AnaisMoutot - although I may be a little biased as I’m quoted in it!

https://t.co/WCYDxCURKb

@watchingtrailer @HUM_ResearchUEA

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Nice article about the rise of reworked pop/rock songs in trailers in today’s @guardian - feat. @GSonCreative @TrailerParkGrp and more...

https://t.co/KpAleVnoYD

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

New trailers research klaxon!

(Must remember to update our online bibliography!)

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

@j_l_r @catchclaw If no one has mentioned them yet, @drmarvel_ would be our recommendation!

[Eric Hoyt @HoytEric]

Happy to share MHDL's new collection: Pressbooks! Browse 100 beautifully digitized UnitedArtists pressbooks (which contain promotional ideas for exhibs & even pre-written reviews for local newspapers) at https://t.co/C2Gle4xURV Thanks
Pickford Foundation & WCFTR for your support!

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Great to see this out there - and always good to see more work around trailers and other promotional materials. Congrats to all!

[CINEPHILE | UBC's Film Journal @CINEPHILE_UBC]

It's here! Our team is proud to announce Cinephile 14. 1 "Audiences and Paratexts" is now available — read it for free online, or stay tuned for in-print copies! https://t.co/k04Kh5ZQWJ

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Our small WtT contribution to #MayThe4thBeWithYou

Two blogs on #starwars trailers from our archives:

‘Here’s a Star Wars trailer you’ve never seen’, https://t.co/1TXVsWR70z

‘Star Wars: The Trailer Awakens’, https://t.co/7PFIhvwwvn

Enjoy!

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Now, *this* is our kind of Twitter thread...

[Ali Plumb @AliPlumb]

Which songs used in trailers have really hit you?

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Some examples:

Luniz's 'I Got 5 on It' - Us

ConfidentialMX's 'I Started a Joke' - Suicide Squad

Karen O's 'The Moon Song' - Her

Arcade Fire's 'Wake Up' - Where The Wild Things Are

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What are your favourites? Let me know!

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

From yesterday’s @guardian ...

@KeithMJohnston @ruiningtrailers @ed_vollans @FLGREENE

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Can anyone out there in the wonderful world of trailers help Jesse out?

Any ideas, @FLGREENE ?

[The Cutdown Podcast @cutdowncast]

Early episode this week!

In this one we discuss the trailers for the Independence Day movies from the iconic first teaser all the way to the viral videos of Resurgence.

https://t.co/Pi9Xf78H20

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

One for @ed_vollans I would imagine?

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

@violetbooth @ruiningtrailers Got 2 of those 42nd St ones, and a stack film magazine VHS and DVD trailer comps from 1990s. Pre-internet it was the only real way to rewatch!

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

This looks brilliant. Any chance of it going ‘on tour’?!

[Cassie Blake @_CassieElise]

This time next week, Mark Toscano and I will be @kurzfilmtage presenting the nearly 200 film prints from @TheAcademy featured in this year's festival: https://t.co/a7vpOh5whf

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

@trailerhaus Glad you enjoyed it. Was a great pleasure to interview Ric, and to add to the (growing) list of trailer producer interviews out there!

[Trailerhaus @trailerhaus]

Really enjoyed reading this long and detailed interview about the art of cutting trailers with Ric Thomas: https://t.co/mQ4DeDir8r
#Trailer @watchingtrailer

[Trailerhaus @trailerhaus]

"Trailers (...) possess their own histories, workflows, and aesthetic judgments." says Jesse Balzer @ruiningtrailers here: https://t.co/Jwb3YHdlXO We are curios about his research!

[Keith M. Johnston @KeithMJohnston]

With thanks to @_CassieElise and Mark Toscano for the invite, I’ll be talking trailers this May at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen!

The Language of Attraction: Trailers between Advertising and the Avant-garde’. For more info: https://t.co/qKTT9ZeWes

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

And, as the saying goes... if you liked that, you may like this...

https://t.co/PYkElW8yhG

[WatchingTheTrailer @watchingtrailer]

Ooh, this looks interesting...

[Screenworks @Screenworksorg]

Check out one of Screenworks' editors, Elan Gamaker's new piece in BAFTSS Open Screens!