You don't necessarily need inter titles in teaser trailers but i opted to have them in mine. I think without them, my trailer looks a little lost, it needs the text to tie it all together. I wanted the message to be ambiguous, to leave viewers wondering what it meant and what the film would be like; hopefully making them want to go see it.
I decided to stick to the conventions and have my inter titles talking to viewers; asking them questions. Since my trailer is about feeling stalked and paranoid, i thought i would do it so that viewers are left wondering what they would do in that situation.
I figured out that i would need 4 inter titles to separate the different scenes in my trailer, not including the slide at the beginning advertising the director. I wanted message to basically be; what would viewers do if they were being stalked? but have the last title questioning whether they are or not. After a lot of fiddling around with the wording I settled on having four titles saying:
- When bad things start to happen...
- What do you do...
- When it happens to you?
- Or does it?
I settled on this because it is what i wanted in terms of ambiguity and mystery. It sounds strange when you say it as a sentence but when it is in the trailer, surrounded by the scenes, it seems to make sense.
I now need to decide on how I want to present my message; font, colour, style etc
