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Originally Posted by tony286
A very honest statement from manwin
http://nymag.com/news/features/70985/
"Manwin, in fact, has studied the question of optimal clip length. ?We tested one minute, three minutes, five minutes,? Antoon says. ?The best converting for the content owner is three minutes. The best for the tube sites?for the surfer to come back and back?is five minutes. So we always ask for three to five. We don?t mind if they send us seven to nine.? "
Mainstream spends 60 to 100 million to make a movie and most trailers are 30 secs, now and then there is a special extended 2-3 min trailer. But porn knows better lol |
I don't want to be part of this debate, but you are wrong about mainstream trailers, not just about the length, but about the idea that you can compare the two in any way.
a mainstream movie trailer is the length is it for several reasons that have nothing to do with showing the audience what they are going to see.
First off, when a big budget movie is announced, the average trailer is 90 seconds for the first several weeks, then shortened to 45 seconds (obviously this varies). This is not because they only want you to see that much! It's because it costs $105,000 to show a 90 second trailer once on a network during prime time. That 45 second trailer, still costs $52,500 to air once!
Porn producers don't pay $100,000 to show their trailer once! I've seen trailers for big movies 10 times during prime time in 1 night, that's $1M they spent that night, just on the channels I was watching.
now, take away the cost, and assume that they could show their trailers for free, would they do the same? NO, their trailers would be exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds every time, why? Because it is mandated by the Motion Picture Association of America, they aren't allowed to make them any longer.