Screen shot comparison: Alien (1979)

Top Image: Inter-title, Screen shot taken from trailer (Alien, 1979)

In near enough all trailers across all genres, there are inter-titles. Often used to explain the narrative, but not revealing too much. Also they are used to incorporate the movies tagline. In the case of feature movie Alien(1979), within the movie trailer you see the inter-title stating 'in space know one can hear you scream', one of the most recognisable taglines from movies remembered today, this is then used on movie posters and other promotional products.

Bottom Image: Inter-title, screen shot taken from our trailer.

As explained above, most trailers from all genres include inter-titles, and often taglines for the inter-titles. Therefore we including various inter-titles for our trailer, this screen shot is one of them, and this one states 'you can only defeat it', which is half of what the movie tagline is, which can be seen on the lower half of the movie magazine. The second half of the tagline comes into the trailer later on, which is often done to split the tagline.