Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer, PG, 1973

A police detective in a futuristic New York crippled by overpopulation investigates why a secret about the main source of food in this society, Soylent Green, has led to the murder of a famous industrialist. In the process, he endangers himself and his friends, and learns the terrible secret of Soylent Green.

This trailer is exemplary for its development of one core concept as the center of the plot of the film. Throughout the trailer, the words "What is the secret of Soylent Green?" flash repeatedly on the screen. This clearly establishes the secret of Soylent Green as the irrefutable center of the plot of the film. The voiceover used to read the words also helps establish the main protagonist as well as the other characters in the film, and makes the trailer much clearer and easier to understand than it would have been if there had not been a voiceover. The use of clips of food riots and various shots of the setting help to establish the society in the film as a broken and chaotic one, and the overall hectic and dramatic tone of the trailer helps with that also. In my trailer, I also intend to use a voiceover, although instead of having a narrator, I will use a speech delivered by one of the characters in the film. This should help clarify the general plot of the film. I will also use various clips from the film in a style similar to this trailer, where they are organized according to what the voiceover is saying.