I wanted to make a teaser trailer fore the film and intentionally have it be misleading to begin with, following the contemporary common movie trailer tropes. I thought that being misleading would be funny and further add to the comedic aspects of the film. This is something that Deadpool did in its advertising too.
In the editing process, I followed the common tropes of single shots fading to black over dramatic notes to create suspense and drama. This is used in so many blockbuster trailers and is a really common trope so poking fun at it feels warranted.
I just used key frames to change the opacity for these shots and used the music from this video which also makes fun of modern day movie trailers, as the song (a cover of You Spin Me Round by Dead Or Alive) fit very well with the film, using overly dramatic covers of a popular song, another common trope.
I then wanted to subvert this even further by no longer being dramatic, but full on comedic which is why I switched from dramatic fades and switched from the dramatic cover, to a Neil Cicierega mashup of You Spin Me Round and Wonderwall by Oasis as seen below. I used this as it still fit with the themes of spinners and spinning but subverting the song again.
I then concluded with the films title and rather than giving a release date, I added the words "SOON" to be vague and keep the trailer as a teaser.
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