Trailer Structure

Converting the film from an opening to a trailer will be quite difficult, especially deciding on what to cut out as we need to reduce the amount of detail included in the opening and focus on the overview of the film. Some scenes we plan on cutting out are:

• The freeze frames - provide useful information, but slow down and stop the trailer from flowing
• Characters greeting each other - now unuseful, too long
• Most scenes with less important characters - escorts, bouncers unimportant. 
• Tracking Nathan's journey to the drug meeting - audience do not need to know how he got there

The first half of the trailer will feature a much briefer overview of the events leading up to the drug meetings, as the drug meeting will prove to be a vital turning point in the film. However, we will only focus briefly on each characters arrival, and intertwine this with other actions the character is doing, which should help to develop the characters persona. The first half of the film will have a separate sound track to help build up tension.

The middle of the trailer will show the turning point of Nathan's character being pushed to the edge, about to kill someone. The person he kills will not be shown as to keep the audience guessing and it will not be explained if he actually went through and killed this character or not. This scene will feature no music or non diagetic sound, as this part should be tense enough as it is.

Finally, the last half of the trailer will feature a lot of cuts from the action of the movie, showing hell breaking loose as characters begin turning on each other. It will feature chases, violence and action. We will use a different, more strong and in your face soundtrack for this to give the film a British style gangster movie. Scenes we will include that were not included before are:

Enzo working away at a computer - opportunity for different camera angles as well as showing the sensible style of Enzo's character. 

Pete about to hit Hao Zheng with a chair - throw the audience off, shock value. Leave the audience wondering how and why the drug leader is being attacked.

Establishing shot from the Hong Kong lights show - the main editor of our project, Howard, had some footage from his previous project and we used this to add a different setting to our film and add scale to the trailer.