The Teaser Trailer.

A teaser trailer is a short trailer used to advertise an upcoming and typically big-budget and popularly themed film. Unlike theatre trailers they are fairly short in length, usually between 30-60 seconds, containing minimal but significant moments of footage from the film. Teaser trailers are enticing and exciting: they do not reveal much about the storyline but show enough to create a desire from the audience to watch the film thus creating a hype for the film's release. In order to allow apprehension to build in the public's mind and therefore make them want to buy tickets to watch the film in the cinema, teaser trailers are released long before the actual film that they are advertising. This is the reason for the name 'teaser' as the public are surrounded in the temptation of the trailer for a long time which therefore 'teases' them and encourages to watch the film when it is released. In the modern world of web 2.0, teaser trailers are increasingly focused on Internet users and therefore have to be powerful and gripping in terms of editing and content in order to create an impact on the viewer as the Internet provides fast access to many teaser trailers, enabling the viewer to compare them quickly and easily.

Comparing 'The Dam Busters' trailer with 'Saturday Night, Sunday Morning' trailer.

'The Italian Job' 1969.

'The Italian Job' Cinema Trailer:

British New Wave: 'This Sporting Life' 1963.

'This Sporting Life' Trailer:


- Director: Lindsay Anderson
- Genre: Drama/Sport
- Setting: Wakefield, Yorkshire
- Plot Summery: Coal miner, Frank Machin becomes the local captain and then loose forward of his local rugby team. He uses widow Margret Hammond for sex and is violent towards her grieving state. They spilt up and she dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
- Based on the novel 'This Sporting Life' by David Storey

Anderson was reluctant to make this film so soon after 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning' due to it's immediate success and similarity in style.

British New Wave: 'A Kind of Loving' 1962.

- Director: John Schlesinger
- Genre: Drama/Romance
- Tagline: 'A Kind Of Loving that knew no wrong until it was too late!'
- Plot Summery: A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law due to a housing shortage in their Northern England town.
- Production Company: Vic Films (London), Waterhall Productions
- Based on the 1960 novel, 'A Kind of Loving' by Stan Barstow.

'A Kind of Loving' is displays the graduations within the class system e.g Ingrid and her mother look down upon Vic and his family for his father's manual work and old-fashioned pursuits, like the crass band. Ingrid's family's 'modern' appliances emphasise their individual achievement over the post WW2 collective struggle and their superiority.

'Get Carter' 1971

'Get Carter' trailer:



- Director: Mike Hodges
- Genre: Crime/Thriller/Action
- Setting: Newcastle/London
- Tag Line: 'What happens when a professional killer violates the code? Get Carter!'
- Plot Summery: Jack Carter, London gangster, finds out about his brothers mysterious death in a car accident and goes to Newcastle to investigate.
- Based on the 1969 novel, 'Jack's Return Home' by Ted Lewis.

Similarities to 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning':

• factory background
• working class
• industrial
• estate house - small, regimented, monotonous.

Brisish New Wave: 'Room at the Top' 1959.