What is the Purpose of the Film Trailer

The purpose of film trailers is to promote the film before it is released. A film trailer helps to make as many people aware of the film and its release date as possible, to do this the trailer company create this excitement by using of a series selected shots from the film being advertised to entice the audience. Since the purpose of the trailer is to attract an audience to the film, these excerpts are usually drawn from the most exciting, funny, or memorable parts of the film but in abbreviated forms so as not to spoil the movie by showing the best parts. When the film is released, the aim is that so may people will be attracted by the feature trailer and therefore the film will be more successful because people were persuaded by the trailer to watch it.