Hey guys, get a load of my trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey!
(Trailer, page etc. are 100% scratchbuilt. Octopunk's friend Adam first suggested "making a movie trailer" to add to my portfolio, and a guy I talked to at R/Greenberg associates also mentioned this concept when I talked about my interest in the design of movie title sequences. I started with just the storebought 2001 DVD, and obeyed all the rules, like the one that says they can't be longer than two and a half minutes...mine is exactly that long and not a frame more or less. Anyway, let me know what you think. Thanks, fellows!)
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...and I just noticed a mistake. Damn it! Yet another render...
I'm sorry I haven't commented on this yet, Jordan, I haven't been able to watch it! I keep getting the message, "Click to run Active X", because my computer won't run the program. I'll get on a different computer later today and I really look forward to checking it out.
Fan-fucking-tastic, dude. Seriously, that's a piece of work. I was particularly floored when I watched it with headphones and realized you'd mixed the music separately from the dialogue. Man. That's precision.
The old MGM logo, the 4/6/68 release date...awesome.
Thanks octo! The music mix was fun. I sped up "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and increased the pitch of the Ligeti "Atmospheres" piece so that it would match with the waltz at the beginning, when things "suddenly" get ominous (as they do in trailers).
The dialogue editing was tricky too; lots of re-combined sentences. But they all do that!
Dude, you should post this on YouTube.
I HAVE BIGGER PLANS!!
jpx, did you watch it?
Not yet, I'm still at work but I'll check it out tonight for sure. Can't wait.
Damn, I'm still thinking about last night's LOST.
It was uneven but good. It's got me excited for next week, that's for damn sure.
Yeah, I can't wait for the "war". I was so pissed when it ended last week. And you know we won't get to see JACOB again for 25 more episodes.
I love the idea of re-cuting old movie trailers. Time and time again when I get 1970s DVD movies I'm always appalled by how bad trailers were back then. The pacing is all off and rather than getting you excited they show too-long portions of various scenes. The one that comes to mind at the moment is the original Halloween trailer. For such a scary movie the trailer is horrible. The original Star Wars trailers are also bad!
I completely agree. Part of the reason is that the "2:30 rule" (trailers can't be longer than 2 1/2 minutes; each studio gets to break the rule once a year) didn't exist back then.
Narrators were a problem, too (just like commercial jingles where they're actually singing about the product or television theme shows where they sing the plot -- nobody would dare to be so uncool these days, except in SNL parodies).
The worst preview I've ever seen is the one for Hitchcock's ROPE: You start with zooming in on the window (from the movie); you hear the screen; then you cut to somewhere else and Jimmy Stewart just sort of ambles out in a suit and starts talking to the camera: "No, folks, you're not hearing things: that was a scream...and it was a murder! That's the beginning of our new picture. I play Fred C. Debenkey, a man who decides he has to investigate" etc. etc. etc.
hear the scream
Oh my God that Rope description had me roaring! I totally heard Jimmy's voice as I read it.
All the films I loved as a kid have terrible trailers; Superman, Close Encounters; Jaws; etc. When did trailers start to pack more punch, the mid-80s?
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