Winter is Coming
Jan. 28th, 2008 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofelevenA piece of advice to movie trailer makers:
In Australia, and indeed, in much of the English-speaking world, the season between summer and winter is known as "Autumn", not "Fall". Nobody except Americans and possibly Canadians refer to it as "Fall".
Therefore, when your trailer proudly informs me that your film is coming out "This Fall", I have no way of knowing if you mean "This (American) Fall", ie, Australian Spring, or whether you have adjusted the trailer for Southern hemisphere audiences but are unaware of the terminology in use here, and the film is coming out in Autumn.
I mean, it's not that I plan out my movie-viewing months in advance, but it's still needlessly confusing...
In Australia, and indeed, in much of the English-speaking world, the season between summer and winter is known as "Autumn", not "Fall". Nobody except Americans and possibly Canadians refer to it as "Fall".
Therefore, when your trailer proudly informs me that your film is coming out "This Fall", I have no way of knowing if you mean "This (American) Fall", ie, Australian Spring, or whether you have adjusted the trailer for Southern hemisphere audiences but are unaware of the terminology in use here, and the film is coming out in Autumn.
I mean, it's not that I plan out my movie-viewing months in advance, but it's still needlessly confusing...