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On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:17:19 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 11/4/2016 8:11 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>>
>> Think about "trailers" for example.  With a movie trailer, you are
>> seeing clips from the actual film, the marketing benefit being that
>> the clips were strategically chosen and edited from the actual footage
>> in a way that supports advertising goals.
>
>I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying but just as an aside 
>frequently you are NOT seeing actual clips from a movie in the trailers 
>or other advertising.  Many ad related materials are put together before 
>shooting has finished (in some cases before its even begun), let alone 
>editing.  Many scenes and shots used in the ads get cut from the movie.
>
>And I know of one incident with a TV series some years back where the 
>promotions department forced the show to add a scene with the female 
>lead in a bikini in a hot tub simply so they could use it in promos.  No 
>story or script reason for it, made absolutely no sense in the episode, 
>had nothing to do with what was going on in the show, but had to be 
>added for the promos.  I'm not aware of any specific examples of that 
>from a movie production but I would not be surprised if it has happened 
>more than once.
>
>We now return to our regularly scheduled arguments over computer games.  :)

I don't doubt that you're correct, and I can't comment on TV series
because I watch so few of them, but in all the films I've seen over
the decades, I cannot recall a single instance of seeing something in
a movie trailer that was not in the movie itself (and many times I've
watched the release trailer after having seen the film).

I have seen that done with movie posters.  One classic example that
comes to mind was the Walther LP53 (long barrel air pistol) that was
used in James Bond movie posters but never in the actual movies.

But, while I've heard of it done with movie footage I haven't
experienced it myself.