Editing Review: Grown Ups 2 Trailer

As a change I will be looking at the editing of a movie trailer, continuing in the spirit of the latest assignment it will be a comedy. 

Edited By: Tom Costain (Also edited the first instalment Grown Ups in 2010)

The opening immediately comes in with a guitar riff that is uplifting with a pinch of retro. The colour of the titles also adds to the uplifting theme as a quick back-story is displayed through the texts and the yearbook style photos, everything is kept short, sweet and to the point. The opening texts also appear to the guitar notes being strummed in the background, emphasising the point.
As this film is a sequel an appropriate amount of "Previously On..." footage is displayed as a quick, reminder to viewers who might have forgotten the plot etc and to show those who loved it the first time just why they did by choosing clips that are funny.
The audio then changes as we are then lead on to the trailer of the actual movie, the Text emphasises this by stating boldly "THIS SUMMER" As we all know the point of a trailer is to give a brief synopsis of the movie without giving away any major spoilers, or in the case of a comedy reveal to many of the funniest lines and scenes. This is done by using a mixture of text and In Film Dialogue. A taste of what kind of humour this film will have is essential for those who may not have seen it's predecessor  and so a couple of examples are shown (The Deer and the Cop Scene).
Lastly this film stars four very well known comedic actors so it's essential to try and capture all of them in a funny action as they are introduced to the audience. This trailer cleverly combines that by the jumping off the rock naked scene.
The trailer also ends on a funny and most importantly memorable gag. Then after the movie title appears we get a coda (Post Credit Scene) that adds that extra bit of laughter to the movie, this is backed by a well known song that may stick in audience members heads subconsciously preparing them to see the movie when it comes out.
I though this trailer worked really well as a short comedy piece, it made me laugh and I watched it twice, though the plot seems really thin in a comedy nobody really cares, the main point is to make audience members laugh.