Why A24’s Movie Trailers Are the Best | Video Essay

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How do you edit movie trailers like A24? This video essay explores what makes them so unique, and shares some tips for how to make your trailers more like A24.
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - A24's reputation
01:36 - The four categories of movie trailers
01:56 - Who makes movie trailers
02:39 - Timeline trailers
04:52 - Setup trailers
08:46 - Character trailers
10:13 - Mood & Tone trailers
12:27 - Why A24's brand stands out
16:05 - How to edit an A24 style movie trailer
17:25 - A24 dialogue editing vs the mainstream
19:17 - The Florida Project
21:14 - How A24 trailers use title cards
22:07 - Movie trailer segues
23:36 - Bodies Bodies Bodies
25:51 - Summary of A24 trailer editing tips
27:56 - Uncut Gems
28:45 - Mainstream trailer are good, actually
30:06 - Final thoughts & conclusions
A24 Trailer House Playlists
AV Squad - • A24 AV Squad
Giaronomo Productions - • A24 Giaronomo
Grand Son Creative - • A24 Grand Son
Mark Woollen & Associates - • A24 Mark Woollen
Motive Creative - • A24 Motive
A24 Trailers
A Ghost Story Trailer
A Prayer Before Dawn Trailer 2
After Yang Trailer
Bodies Bodies Bodies Trailer 1
C’mon C’mon Trailer 2
Climax Trailer 1
Eighth Grade Trailer
Equals Trailer 2
Everything Everywhere All at Once Trailer
Ex Machina Trailer 1
Ex Machina Trailer 1 “Implications”
Ex Machina Trailer 2
First Cow Trailer
First Reformed Trailer
Free Fire Red Band Trailer
Good Time Trailer
Green Room Trailer 2
Hereditary Trailer
Hereditary Trailer 2
High Life Trailer
In Fabric Trailer
It Comes at Night Trailer 2
Lady Bird Trailer
Laggies Trailer
Lamb Trailer 1
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Trailer
Men Trailer
MIDSOMMAR Teaser
MIDSOMMAR Trailer
Minari Trailer
Moonlight Trailer
On the Rocks Trailer
Revenge of the Green Dragons Trailer 1
Room Trailer 2
Saint Maud Trailer
SKIN Trailer
Swiss Army Man Trailer
The Captive Trailer
The Disaster Artist Trailer 1
The End of the Tour Trailer 1
The Farewell Trailer
The Florida Project Trailer
The Green Knight Trailer 1
The Humans Trailer
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Trailer
The Lighthouse Trailer 1
The Lighthouse Trailer 2
The Sea of Trees Trailer 1
The Spectacular Now Trailer
The Tragedy of Macbeth Trailer 1
The Witch Trailer 2
Uncut Gems Trailer
Under the Silver Lake Trailer
Under the Skin Trailer
Waves Trailer
X Trailer 1
Trailers
Arlington Road Trailer
Arrival Trailer 2
Black Panther Trailer 1
Black Panther Trailer 2
Black Panther Wakanda Forever Teaser
Castaway Trailer
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Trailer 2
F9 Trailer 2
Frequency Trailer
Kedi Trailer
Knives Out Trailer
Mission Impossible: Fallout Trailer 1
Mission Impossible: Fallout Trailer 2
No Country For Old Men Trailer 1
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Trailer 2
Terminator Genisys Trailer 2
The Cat Rescuers Trailer
The Invisible Man Trailer 1
The Invisible Man Trailer 2
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Trailer 1
The Matrix Revolution Trailer 1
The Misfits Trailer 1
Thor Love and Thunder Trailer 2
Top Gun Maverick Trailer 2
Ultraviolet Trailer
Unbroken Trailer 1
Uncharted Trailer 2
What Lies Beneath Trailer
Additional editing by Shaun James
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ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Derek Lieu and I make indie game trailers! I got my start in the movie trailer industry as an assistant editor at a house which produced trailers for: The Matrix Trilogy, Spider-Man, Pirates of the Caribbean and many more.
Over many years I worked as an editor and started making fan trailers for games, until eventually I got jobs at game trailer houses in Los Angeles where I worked on games like Mortal Kombat X, Shadow of Mordor and lots of LEGO games. Independently I've helped make trailers for games like: Among Us, Half-Life: Alyx, Psychonauts 2, The Long Dark, Firewatch, Dead Cells, Subnautica, Spelunky 2, Ooblets, BattleBlock Theater and a lot more.
I'm using this channel to teach people about the art of making trailers via video essays, tutorials, reviews, and behind-the-scenes looks at my own work. I think about trailers a lot both for work and fun, so I have A LOT to say about them.

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@KervinTran Год назад

Amazing breakdown, and love that you give concrete tips on how to apply the A24 style to one's own work. Thank you Derek!

@DerekLieu Год назад

You’re welcome! I’m glad you liked it 😄

@keedababy7872 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! My husband would get frustrated with me because I have a one trailer rule. I would only watch the first trailer and I would never watch another one. I felt like I was watching the entire movie in the trailer.

@DerekLieu 7 месяцев назад

Haha, he wants you to watch more than one trailer? 😂

@LaurenMiddleton28 2 месяца назад

The Trailer for The Claw was Magical. The music the scenery its Just perfection.

@wilbo.channel Год назад

DAMN! All the little audio bites are so perfectly chosen. You can tell you watched these trailers a whole lot of times in order to make this video. And ending on that last line? Perfect bow to wrap it all up. This was a treat to watch. Great job Derek!

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks! I can only take credit for some of them, because I got some help from editor Shaun James (like that last quote). I feel like the only ones I remember putting in were the “I disagree”s and “Why is that better?” Haha

@KeithCarunida Год назад

This is SO good, Derek. I can't imagine how much time went into this. Thank you!

@DerekLieu Год назад

Haha I have no clue. Several hours writing the first blog post, maybe a week or two doing the first rough version, then I got a little help from another editor to fill in my blank placeholder cards, then a few weeks tweaking, refining, finding clips, adding captions, finding which trailer houses cut which trailers (and adding those to the captions), days trying to figure out how to sound mix in Davinci Resolve, and what feels like forever quality checking it. This is also not counting any thoughts I roughly sorted out when recording an episode of my podcast talking about A24 trailers.

@KeithCarunida Год назад

@@DerekLieu - well, the effort shows. Great stuff, man.

@uniworkhorse Год назад

@@DerekLieu Quite an ambitious project to cut your teeth on when starting to use resolve - turned out great!

@scartinmorsese7723 9 месяцев назад

I'm so grateful you made this video. You articulated what I was feeling but didn't know how to dissect and categorize. My favorite trailer I've ever seen is for Under the Skin. Close second is the trailer for Hereditary. I get chills several times during both.

@DerekLieu 9 месяцев назад

So glad you enjoyed my analysis 😄

@uniworkhorse Год назад

I just realized that some of the elements you mentioned that are detrimental to film trailers due to spoilage, can actually benefit multiplayer game trailers where you want to convey the feeling of the game to the viewer. A game trailer that blew my mind recently was THE FINALS (Closed Beta trailer). After rewatching with the elements you had listed, I noticed a ton of title cards, segues, mini timelines, heavy emphasis on the hyped mood, strong sound and a heavy dose of glitch fx. It also has the advantage of having combining gameplay that I've never seen in an FPS before, which made it rewatchable!

@DerekLieu 10 месяцев назад

That trailer is super well done!

@dylanjbuck Год назад

Fantastic analysis and not a second longer than it needed to be. Definitely will be coming back to this video again and again.

@DerekLieu Год назад

That's great to hear ^_^ while rewatching it I worry that I didn't spend enough time on some topics, but also if this were much longer it never would've come out, haha.

@dylanjbuck Год назад

@@DerekLieu I'm sure there's a ton more to say, but a concise, contained entry point is worth a lot... so thanks! You nailed it. And hey -- there's always the option to make Part 2.

@nicolasclarke Год назад

Wow. Such an insanely good analysis on trailers and how to replicate them. Thank you so much for this!

@DerekLieu Год назад

You're very welcome. Thanks so much for watching! :D

@yusufersoy1160 Год назад

Looks great as always !

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks so much!

@jjm232a Год назад

Bravo. Excellent essay with actionable takeaways

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thank you for watching!

@fusionaquaa Год назад

Very good video, and wow some of these visuals are striking

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thank you! And yeah, lots of good stuff in there 😮

@LukeRitson Год назад

Awesome work, Derek. Really great breakdown.

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks, Luke! :D

@3dchick 2 месяца назад

This is a MASTERCLASS! Thank you so much. Coming back to this over and over again🎉❤🎉

@DerekLieu 2 месяца назад

Thank you!

@Tbjbu2 Год назад

wow great video!

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thank you!

@JohnnySack-wc8vf Год назад

Excellent! Thank you!

@DerekLieu Год назад

You’re welcome!

@ci2484 Год назад

Dude, this is the content I've been looking for.

@DerekLieu Год назад

Nice 😄

@starlightskyes Год назад

Yay, another Derek video! What a treat

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks, Star!

@CaptainJeoy Год назад

I watched all of it 😁. Great video, Derek 🔥

@DerekLieu Год назад

Much appreciated!

@geoffhill5903 Год назад

This is very good. Thanks!

@DerekLieu Год назад

You’re very welcome!

@rivermarques8598 4 месяца назад

amazing video man!!!!! side note it did take me three days to finish this, because I kept wanting to watch/rewatch the movies you talked about. damn you a24

@DerekLieu 4 месяца назад

Thanks so much for watching; I’m glad you liked it! 😃

@albertmailyan9680 Год назад

great analysis

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks!

@sergeypoltorakov 11 месяцев назад

Great video. I would to make an attempt creating a trailer on my own just for fun, and this video is deferentially helpful. Thank you for what you are doing 🙂

@DerekLieu 10 месяцев назад

You're very welcome!

@PixelatedLabRat Год назад

Really enjoyed the video! Do you think any games have ever pulled off the A24 formula in their trailers?

@DerekLieu Год назад

Thanks! When I was working on JETT: The Far Shore, the creative director cited A24 as a stylistic goal for one particular trailer. I’m sure others have considered it too.

@TmsTanim Год назад

Fascinating analysis of how "spoilery" a movie trailer can get - or avoid getting.

@DerekLieu Год назад

Glad you liked it 😃

@KrysPossible Год назад

Hey Derek! I recently found your channel and have been binge watching your content and definitely can say that you are awesome! However, I’ve been wondering, how did you know trailer editing for games was for you? Im thinking about getting into it, but I still don’t know if I like it for sure. Thanks beforehand!

@DerekLieu Год назад

Try making some and see if you enjoy it! I had a lot of fun making fan trailers for games after kind of burning out on movie trailers, so when the opportunity came to make game trailers I really liked it.

@KrysPossible Год назад

@@DerekLieu Thank you! I’ll try and see what I think then. 😊

@SJPortelli Год назад

They had a couple of LAMB trailers --- one had no spoilers and was brilliant as the twist was not shown... Then they started showing a trailer where the twist is given away and you see the lamb baby. Even the poster changed after on to reveal this baby. Made me angry as when I watched the film after seeing only the first trailer the twist hit me...it was freaky! I think they gave away too much, but I can see what you are saying Derek -- that even if they give it away, you still want to know how they got there, so you still watch due to intrigue.

@DerekLieu Год назад

I hadn’t seen that first teaser until I read your comment and I can see how the main trailer by comparison shows so much more. But I think to really get people into the seats they needed to be less subtle so people were absolutely certain and able to say “that movie with a lamb who’s half human” rather than “movie about a mysterious lamb, I guess?”

@recesss Год назад

making a trailer right now is there a way I can show you and get your take?

@DerekLieu Год назад

Submit it to reviewmytrailer.com if you’d like me to review it on a future Twitch Stream!

@LoganLe-tf1rm 5 месяцев назад

Only around 920 likes right now?!

@Leprutz 8 месяцев назад

And yet I'd still edit trailers differently. Making them even somehow boring but just the right amount to peak your interest.

@luncuthubeja 6 месяцев назад

why does the audio sound this way ?

@DerekLieu 6 месяцев назад

What way?

@HorseJoint 8 дней назад

Damn. This was the last video he posted. Did “A24” take him out🤔

@DerekLieu 8 дней назад

lol, I’m just super busy with work 🤪

@HorseJoint 8 дней назад

@@DerekLieu Understandable. The video is really well made. Don’t work ya self too hard🫵🏾

@hotdog782 Месяц назад

what about this is unique to A24? don’t the vast majority of trailers from the big boutiques (mark woollen, av squad, giaronomo) fall under these broad categories, regardless of distributor?

@DerekLieu Месяц назад

I said all trailers fall under those broad categories, but I feel A24 tends to lean less on ones which show a lot of plot

@interlinkedMedia 8 месяцев назад

Well because their movies are the best. In the same class as criterion.

@DerekLieu 8 месяцев назад

Having good movies absolutely helps, haha. But good movies doesn’t necessarily mean trailers this good. Someone at A24 has really good creative direction 😄

@SahilSinnh 4 месяца назад

Not just movies now. BEEF 🤯

@randomot5113 Год назад

I am a poor indie. Can you please help me in making a trailer for my game

@DerekLieu Год назад

Submit it to reviewmytrailer.com if you’d like me to review it on a future Twitch Stream! Otherwise, you can book a consultation with me at www.derek-lieu.com/consultation

@corruptauthor 3 месяца назад

Did i miss something. I love movie trailers, dont love A2A trailers . They kinda suck actually

@DerekLieu 3 месяца назад

That’s fine, you just have different taste. Why do you think they suck?

@corruptauthor 3 месяца назад

@@DerekLieu it's nothing I can put into words. I enjoying watching trailers. I love A2A movies, well some of them but the A2A trailers I do not enjoy and they don't Entice me to want to see the film.

@corruptauthor 3 месяца назад

@@DerekLieu examples I seen the exmachina trailer and midsummer trailer. Didn't watch thise films until years after there releases but once I actually did watch them they are hands down two of my favorites films ever. Fast forward I see the trailer for lamb. I got excited not because the trailer was good but becuase of the A2A brand was good. Lamb is a terrible movie.

@DerekLieu 3 месяца назад

@@corruptauthor but you like other movie trailers? Is it because the other movie trailers more explicitly show what happens in the movie?

@corruptauthor 3 месяца назад

@@DerekLieu not really, good is good. Not all other trailers Jordan peele and M night Shyamalan have good trailers and I like there brands.