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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4600804" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>After hearing all the cries of "awesome" here, I laugh and cry a little bit. The guy who made the faux trailer seems to have latched onto the realization that, once comprehended fully, makes action movie trailers a lot less awesome. That realization being: all action movie trailers are, in fact, the same trailer (maybe I should put that in spoiler tags...?). </p><p></p><p>It's basically a macro where you just drop in some random sound bites and clips from the movie at hand and then click the "Create Trailer" button. You have to make the effort to divide the clips between the first half of the trailer, where everything's really slow, muted, and mysterious, and the second half where the trailer explodes into a frenetic, seizure-inducing, messy montage, but beyond that it's paint-by-numbers.</p><p></p><p>About the only beat this trailer misses is the hammy fortune-cookiesque lines of text that should be in the first half, cutting back-and-forth with the long drawn-out opening shots. Something like:</p><p></p><p>"<em>In a time/world of blah blah blah</em>....." (where "blah" equals "bad stuff")</p><p></p><p>Cut to opening shots. Try not to give too much away.</p><p></p><p>"<em>Where blah blah blah rules/reins/destroys blah blah blah</em>...." (more bad stuff)</p><p></p><p>Cut to next set of opening shots. A little faster paced now. Drop some clues.</p><p></p><p>"T<em>he only sound of blah blah blah is</em>...." (here "blah" is hope, love, freedom and other good things)</p><p></p><p>Cut to next set of opening shots. Trying to reach a profound moment here where the audience finally gets the big reveal.</p><p></p><p>"<em>The sound of THUNDER</em>."</p><p></p><p>Screen goes dead quiet and pitch black for a suspenseful couple of seconds. Is it over? Was that the end of the trailer? </p><p></p><p>Hell no! KA-BOOM! Let the pounding, bombastic music and half-second-long clips of things blowing up and people running and fighting and stuff flying at the fourth wall commence!</p><p></p><p>"Awesome!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 4600804, member: 8158"] After hearing all the cries of "awesome" here, I laugh and cry a little bit. The guy who made the faux trailer seems to have latched onto the realization that, once comprehended fully, makes action movie trailers a lot less awesome. That realization being: all action movie trailers are, in fact, the same trailer (maybe I should put that in spoiler tags...?). It's basically a macro where you just drop in some random sound bites and clips from the movie at hand and then click the "Create Trailer" button. You have to make the effort to divide the clips between the first half of the trailer, where everything's really slow, muted, and mysterious, and the second half where the trailer explodes into a frenetic, seizure-inducing, messy montage, but beyond that it's paint-by-numbers. About the only beat this trailer misses is the hammy fortune-cookiesque lines of text that should be in the first half, cutting back-and-forth with the long drawn-out opening shots. Something like: "[I]In a time/world of blah blah blah[/I]....." (where "blah" equals "bad stuff") Cut to opening shots. Try not to give too much away. "[I]Where blah blah blah rules/reins/destroys blah blah blah[/I]...." (more bad stuff) Cut to next set of opening shots. A little faster paced now. Drop some clues. "T[I]he only sound of blah blah blah is[/I]...." (here "blah" is hope, love, freedom and other good things) Cut to next set of opening shots. Trying to reach a profound moment here where the audience finally gets the big reveal. "[I]The sound of THUNDER[/I]." Screen goes dead quiet and pitch black for a suspenseful couple of seconds. Is it over? Was that the end of the trailer? Hell no! KA-BOOM! Let the pounding, bombastic music and half-second-long clips of things blowing up and people running and fighting and stuff flying at the fourth wall commence! "Awesome!" [/QUOTE]
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