Trailer Beats
structure-trailer-beats · build
Aim
Learn to sequence beats that build persuasion and rhythm, drafting with AI, to produce a beat sheet blueprint for the trailer.
In one line
Map persuasive beats that shape how viewers experience your story.
Stage run
| # | Stage | Type | Aim | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trailer Beats | arcade | Students reorder seven shards of the original Matrix (1999) teaser into the order a trailer house cut them, then score their cut against the real one to discover that a teaser is an engineered escalation of beats, not a highlight reel. | |
| 2 | Trailer Beats | dossier | ||
| 3 | Structured-Output Prompting | workbench | Learn to prompt an AI to return an ordered, structured artifact rather than prose, to get usable scaffolds you can act on, in the context of structuring your trailer’s beats. | |
| 4 | Trailer Beat Sheet | larp | Can you engineer 90 seconds that make a stranger need to see your film? | 70 |
Evidence artefact
Trailer beat sheet