Research The difference between a title

sequence and a trailer.

By Shaun Hayden

Title SequenceA title sequence is the first sequence of a film, it

has titles over the top of the film which show us the name of the actors etc.

Normally, a title sequence will use continuity editing not montage editing. They do this so that they audience can start to make sense of the film, where as montage would confuse them a little.

The purpose of a title sequence is to introduce characters in the film and to let the audience get a feel for the film, but they also use this time to show the audience the name of actors and so on

Trailer A trailer is a series of scenes that are put

together which show us a little bit of the film. It tends to show us what the film is about. Most trailers are used to get a target audience to watch the whole film.

Most trailers will use a montage editing, but within the montage editing they will use small amounts of continuity editing. They do this to show a small scene using continuity editing, then they use montage editing to cut to another small scene using continuity editing etc.

Differences between the two. A trailer uses montage editing where as a

title sequence doesn’t.A trailer could only last for a few minutes but

a title sequence could last from 2-5 minutes.A trailer is a teaser for a audience and it tries

to get them to watch the film, where a title sequence looks the audience into watching the rest of the film.

A trailer is lots of parts of the film put together in a non linear way, where a title sequence is in a order.