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Trailer / teaser map
Choose a small set of truthful beats that make the film legible as a pitch without claiming finished footage, audience response or a completed cut.
trailer · teaser · release · film · format
Optional demo graph stamp
Best three beats from the locked graph, title card, date. Cut map, not an edit.
Trailer / teaser map template · Applies to the shared Mojave demo, not a private project. Worksheet notes are not imported.
Proof-of-concept / Working resource / v1
Make the decision. Keep the record.
Choose a small set of truthful beats that make the film legible as a pitch without claiming finished footage, audience response or a completed cut.
Download worksheet (.md) ↓Includes instructions, a worked example and a blank worksheet. Edit in any text or Markdown editor. Save your copy with your project files; it does not sync to the shared demo.
How to use it
- Define what the teaser must make clear: character, pressure, visual world or question.
- Map three to five beats to existing graph nodes and label any planned material.
- End with a next decision, not an invented release promise or performance claim.
Review before handoff
- Every teaser beat maps to a graph node or is clearly marked planned.
- The copy does not imply finished footage, distribution or results that do not exist.
- The closing beat points to a decision the team can actually make.
Fictional worked example
The Last Signal
An original teaching example, not a customer result. Reference filenames are illustrative; no source media is included.
- Teaser job
- Will Mara use the last transmission for herself or for the valley? The teaser should make that choice unavoidable.
- Beat map
- Open on the dark valley / red power gauge / hand over the selector / ALL label / distant light answering.
- Source status
- Gauge: planned shot. Selector: storyboarded. Valley light: open design. No finished footage is represented by this map.
- On-screen language
- THE LAST SIGNAL / A short film concept by Copper Canyon Films. Avoid a release date or claims about audience response until approved.
- Handoff
- Producer reviews source status and legal names. Director approves the final beat order. Editor receives the map only after both approvals.
Preview the blank worksheet
The download includes these prompts plus project, version and approval fields. Duplicate rows when you need more coverage or episodes.
- Teaser job
- State the one question or feeling the preview must leave behind.
- Beat map
- List the opening image, pressure beat, turn, proof image and closing hold.
- Source status
- Mark each beat as locked still, planned shot, reference or open decision.
- On-screen language
- Draft only the minimum title or caption language and identify claims that require approval.
- Handoff
- Name the person who decides whether the teaser can be assembled and what evidence is still required.