Creative work · SINGAPORE
Singapore filmmakers: a clean film excerpt is a different delivery from your trailer
Choose the actual passage and export requested for promotion without substituting an unrelated file.
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Start with these checks
- A film-publicity or festival-delivery discussion
- Feedback on the selected passage and requested export
- Actual organiser instructions for the promotional asset
The problem
A Singapore festival asks your film team for a clean excerpt, but you prepare the existing trailer with logos, text and subtitle overlays instead of a continuous passage from the film.
Start with the actual delivery purpose
Read the request and identify whether it asks for an excerpt from the film, a trailer or the full screener. Those files serve different purposes even when their running times are similar. Keep the promotion request beside the export instructions rather than relying on a folder containing your previous campaign assets. Ask about an unclear specification before sending the nearest ready-made file.
Read the organiser’s clean-excerpt example
SGIFF’s dated guidelines request a 60-second clean excerpt without subtitles or a watermark, expressly distinguishing it from a trailer, for promotional use. Its call is closed. This describes one organiser’s package and does not mean every exhibition or audience copy should lack subtitles. Apply the actual current recipient’s instructions instead of turning this example into a universal export rule.
- SGIFF: closed film-entry call ↗ · Source checked
- SGIFF: clean promotional excerpt specification ↗ · Source checked
Choose a passage the team can deliberately offer
Compare candidate continuous passages for what a viewer can understand without the whole film. Note any context, reveal or material that the team does not intend to include in this publicity asset. Keep that creative choice separate from whether the requested file is technically correct. Confirm the authorised passage and any unresolved permissions through the production’s proper route; a workshop cannot grant them.
Inspect the delivered excerpt itself
Open the actual export and check its start, ending and included overlays against the approved request. Label it clearly apart from the trailer and full film, and retain the chosen time range in production notes. Use Boardzip to find Singapore film-publicity and production discussions if you need help framing the choice. Topic relevance does not establish that the host will review your files or distribute your film.
Questions and answers
Can I just rename the trailer file excerpt?
No. Check the actual content and requested format. The cited organiser specifically distinguishes the clean film excerpt from a trailer; a filename does not change a montage or its overlays.
Does clean mean every version should have no subtitles?
No. This is a stated requirement for a particular promotional asset. The same guidelines separately require English subtitles for applicable film screeners. Keep the purposes and instructions distinct.
Sources and further reading
These references provide the guide’s source context and further reading. They do not confirm a current event, admission or an available place; check each listing’s organiser terms for those conditions.
- SGIFF: closed film-entry call ↗Source checked
- SGIFF: clean promotional excerpt specification ↗Source checked
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