This is an example Movie Trailer for the book “Want Your Dreams” (See: https://pocketpracticebook.com). Below it is its screenplay.
The Full Movie Treatment and Screenplay can be seen in the post: Want Your Dreams – Screenplay
The Movie Trailer Screenplay:
Though this post only approximates industry standard screenplay formatting, I can provide exports to Final Draft (.fdx), Word (.docx) or PDF (.pdf) standards.
WANT YOUR DREAMS TRAILER
© Sean G. O’Leary (sean@seangoleary.com)
For:
Trailer Production
2023
FADE IN:
EXT. BEACH AT SUNSET IMAGE – EVENING (00:00:08:571)
MUSIC: “We Agree” by Sean G. O’Leary starts (average volume)
SUPER: Want Your Dreams (scrolls down to CENTER-SCREEN)
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:17:134)
MUSIC: (immediate to low volume)
SOUND: Waves can be heard as a gentle background sound at low volume.
SUPER: Want Your Dreams (scrolls down to CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR: Informative.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
The importance of want and desire for your dreams is not a new idea. This is not a “discovery”. Writers and philosophers have been communicating about it throughout the ages; and are thankfully still doing so.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:34:285)
NARRATOR: Light/lilting yet relaxed.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
There are many ways to plan out the successful accomplishment of your dreams. But this work is not going to cover that.
What you will focus on here is how to get yourself to the point where you actually FEEL the desire for your dreams; the point where you are strongly interested in doing what’s necessary to achieve them;
SUPER: “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Aristotle (appears at CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
and how to recover that feeling if it ever wanes.
It covers what will get you to the point where you actually WANT to create your To-Do list and where you are unstoppable in doing its steps.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:34:285)
NARRATOR: Emphatic then resigned.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
When you are deep-down excited about accomplishing something, your attitude is infectious. You are full of energy, bright ideas come out of nowhere, friends around you cheer you on and most importantly, you are happy in your pursuit.
SUPER: “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” Rumi (appears at CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
But what gets you to this point? And how to you regain it when it is lost? And, maybe an even bigger question; how to you keep it burning once it is lit.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:34:284)
NARRATOR: Slight intensity then didactic.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
This is not a long process but it’s not a “quick fix” either. To be effective, it requires your dedicated action, exactly along the lines laid out here.
SUPER: “Through discipline comes freedom.” Aristotle (appears at CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
Don’t give up your ‘day job’ just yet and you’ll have nothing to lose… and your dreams to gain.
It doesn’t matter what you want – you can have it if you want it. That is the nature of life. But you have to really WANT it, and that comes from you.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:34:295)
NARRATOR: Emphatic and entreating.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
Let yourself have this information. Let it work for you in bringing about more of the conditions and things you love to have in your life.
View and practice the contents of this work often, and daily.
Let its truth sink into you at the rate that it will naturally do so.
SUPER: “If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.” Buddha (appears at CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
You may view this work from any stage of wanting your dreams. From having a head full of limiting internal dialogue to a burning a red rocket flame of desire on your dreams and everything in between.
Text scrolls down to OFF-SCREEN.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:17:142)
SUPER: “Do the thing and you will have the power.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (appears at CENTER-SCREEN)
NARRATOR: Pause for effect then up-beat then encouraging.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
Wherever you are, there is always more potential for happiness, satisfaction, and accomplishment. As you shed layers of untruth about limitations, your awareness is open to see things not clearly visible to you before.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:00:21:810)
COUPLE walking on beach enter from left and exit at right.
Text scrolls right at the same pace as Couple walking.
NARRATOR: Matter-of-fact.
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
The barriers and challenges to your dreams are the chase and game of life.
SUPER: “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” Rumi (scrolls in from right at the same pace as Couple walking and as the previous text is almost OFF-SCREEN)
NARRATOR (V.O. CONTINUOUS)
Take the time to make sure you’ve prepared your heart on a diet of unstoppable desire and relaxed certainty. Full to the brim with these, no barrier can push you off your intentions.
Text stops scrolling at CENTER-SCREEN.
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EXT. BEACH WITH GENTLE WAVES (00:01:18:419)
MUSIC: “We Agree” ends. Start “Hope Theme” by Sean G. O’Leary; (low volume)
Text scrolls up to OFF-SCREEN as background beach scene zooms-in until the beach disappears leaving only the the waves, ocean and the sky showing.
MUSIC: Raises to average volume as the text scrolls up to OFF-SCREEN.
SOUND: Waves raise to average volume as the text scrolls up to OFF-SCREEN.
CREDITS START:
Want Your Dreams
Movie Trailer
(based on the book Want Your Dreams)
Written, Produced and Narrated by
Sean G. O’Leary
Music and Photography by
Sean G. O’Leary
© Sean G. O’Leary 2023
www.pocketpracticebook.com
CREDITS END:
SUPER: © Sean G. O’Leary 2023 www.pocketpracticebook.com (stays at CENTER-SCREEN for last 10 seconds)
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