RESEARCH: MOVIE TRAILER WEBSITES

Trailer websites are widely used by film lovers to find out about news releases and to view film trailers. The website LifeWire has reviewed several of the most well-known movie trailer websites.

YOUTUBE 

Some are huge and unfiltered, such as YouTube, which is not dedicated just to trailers, so it is unfiltered and disorganised, but comprehensive. I use YouTube regularly as it offers such a big spread, including older film trailers for times when I am researching older back-catalogue films, such as my investigation of New Wave Cinema from the 1950s this week. 

It is also very useful for the serendipity of stumbling across unexpected finds as well as its vast library of film-related 'how to' presentations; yesterday I studied how Spielberg used sound in Munich (2005) See With Your Ears.

iTunes Movie Trailers

Specialist trailer websites often do more than just host trailers. They may offer a variety of different services such as browsing and categorizing options. iTunes Movie Trailers is a high quality site dedicated to trailers. It is well organised and has no adverts to spoil the page layout. It offers several ways to browse; it has links to buy and opening dates and it lists the 'top 10'. 

I use iTunes Movie Trailers because it works smoothly and seemlessly. For example, I use the 'Showtimes' to find screenings near me. You can sort these movie previews by recently added, most popular, exclusive, genre, and studio. As LifeWire says, the search tool lets you find a movie trailer by cast members and director.

Most movie trailer sites don't support so many browsing methods, so this is your best bet for finding trailers for movies you don't even know about yet.The RSS feed at the bottom of Apple's site lets you stay updated with every new movie trailer they release.

IMDB

For every movie lover, IMDB offers a reliable and comprehensive source of information on trailers and on all other aspects of film, so if I want to search by 'trending', 'most anticipated', 'recently added' or 'most popular', it supplies several streams of information.

The free IMDB account lets me create a watchlist to track what I have seen and the platform also enables me to receive personalized recommendations, like Netflix.

The main IMDB site offers a wealth of information, making it easy to check out film titles, directors, awards and actors.

TRAILER ADDICT

LifeWire rates Trailer Addict highly as a source of trailers because every trailer page explains the movie, shows screenshots from the trailer, lists the release date, allows for comments, and lets you find similar movies based on genre. 

It is a site that is dedicated to movie trailers. There's an All Films page plus other useful sections like Top Films to find the best movie trailers, Coming Soon for previews for upcoming movies, Out Now for current trailers, and a Tag Browser page to find movie previews by cast, studio, or genre.

These trailers are also sectioned off into categories like Adaptation and Trailer Type so that you can find trailers for remakes or movies based off books, musicals, video games