After considering how we were going to structure our trailer, we came up with the idea to research different trailers, look at how many different shots they used to tell the storyline of the film within a 2 to 3-minute clip. We also looked at the structure of the storyline, and how it entices an audience in.
First of all we looked Papertowns, the trailer. This trailer was 2:42 minutes long. When watching it very carefully we pulled out 105 different shots. These shots told the whole storyline, from start to end without giving away the whole movie. The trailer was very clever as it had a build up to the main section as such. 
We then looked at The Duff trailer. We found that within the trailer of 2:31 minutes long. Within the trailer there were only approximately 95 different shots. Yet, much like in Paper Towns, the whole storyline was portrayed without giving too much away.
Lastly, we decided to view another ‘coming of age’ genre film, so we chose to look at Juno. From watching the trailer of 2:05 minutes, we found that much like the other trailers, the audience were able to be captured by the approximate 90 Shots. We found that the entire storyline was portrayed, yet we still wanted to go and watch the movie.
Once we had looked at the shots that were used within the trailers, we decided to look at the structure of the trailer. As a group we thought that we could pull in the theorist Todorov. Todorov founded the ‘Equilibrium Theory’ in 1969. He believed that his theory could be applied to any film, therefore we decided that it could be applied to any trailer too, as a trailer is just a condensed film. Todorov found that a film would always follow a specific narrative, this narrative included 5 different sections of the film or trailer. These included; Equilibrium, disequilibrium, acknowledgement, solving and the new equilibrium.
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