Practical Production - Alternative texts + conventions

Production: Fan-made trailer for Team Fortress 2

Alternative texts

Meet the Scout Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eaE-_GDbmQ

From the same game (Team Fortress 2), official character trailer (there are 9 characters in total, 7 have trailers)

Bulletstorm Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNEKnifT5M

Upcoming FPS , s

Conventions: Humour, POV shots (gameplay footage), text/montage sequences

Duke Nukem Forever Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVuuyRGB_BA

Another upcoming FPS

Conventions:

· Humour,

· Montage sequences

· Breaking the 4^th wall

· Non-diagetic sound

· POV Shots

· Gameplay Footage

· Cuts to text

· Music cuts during a humorous portion

· Lots of violence + explosions + gore

· All the above trailers have some sort of gag or extra sequence at the end after the title of the game has been revealed