[Jun8]

This is a good example of how parallelism sometimes totally breaks down. Theater and film seem quite similar so your trailer idea sounds logical. To see the problem with it, talk to any person involved with theater, they will absolutely hate it, it goes against everything they are trying to do. See, most movies are created for commercial entertainment, while theater productions are rarely so (at least they don't see this in that light). Think about a trailer for a Chekhov play or a recent one, say Burning by Thomas Bradshaw. To many ears the idea is abhorrent.

[sitkack]

They take pictures and make posters for upcoming shows? Why not trailers? I think because video production of plays is difficult, their time scales are compressed often still tweaking things directly before opening night. You would pretty much have to dedicate 1 or 2 hrs of the entire casts time just for filming enough footage for a 30 second spot. It is interesting but I think difficult. If you can have a small crew, not take much time and get an edit out quickly. You might be able to charge at most maybe 2k for a fully edited trailer. Probably more on the 1k or less scale.

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