A trailer and an opening sequence are different because a trailer shows a montage of various clips from different parts of the movie or TV series. This contrasts with an opening sequence which shows the beginning of the film or episode. A trailer lasts between 30 seconds and 2 minutes whereas an opening sequence may last between 2 and 5 minutes. In the trailer of Merlin Season 6 and the trailer for War Horse, there are voiceovers of one of the characters speaking. The shots which have the voiceover are significant to the voiceover such as Joey galloping across No-Man's Land when the voiceover is saying, "Can you imagine flying over a war?"
A trailer is used to encourage people to watch the film or TV show that it is advertising by showing the audience various dramatic parts of the film to briefly explain the plot, whereas, an opening sequence is used to make the audience ask questions about the plot or characters. These are questions that they will want answered so the audience will continue to watch the film. In an opening sequence, there are titles to tell the audience who was involved in the making of the film such as "Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox Presents" at the start of Titanic whereas in the trailer for Merlin, the titles are very short such as "A New King" and "A New Era". This shows that the titles are used for different roles in trailers and opening sequences. In a trailer, they are there to give the audience and idea about what is going to happen in the film or TV show.
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