June 1, 2008

I think I ended up getting in a little over my head with this one. I wanted to make a mock movie trailer for the sci-fi genre, and I allowed Ben to persuade me to rip-off the Matrix trailer. I took some scenes from the movie, and some sequences from the trailer itself. I even used the Crystal Method track that the trailer used. Most of the time it all works quite well, but in places I sacrificed my style for making it more like the original, and I rather wish that I hadn't done that.

I used green screen again for the scene where B.K jumps the buildings, but this time I filmed him running on the screen, and I was in a crane shooting down on him. Shame I didn't light the screen properly again...

Some of the dialogue in this is quite clever, but lost in the sense of the thing. Didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, but it was rather ambitious to try to copy a movie with ground breaking special effects.

April 20, 2008

Ha ha ha ha... Classic. Paul McDonald makes the perfect hero for this movie. I think my favourite bits are Jack getting shot on the roof (and then re-appearing in a later shot), Junior and the School of Champions manuals, and the silly joke with Ben on the phone to Paul "Nooooooooo! It's April 30 to May 3rd!"

This is what I really wanted for this video - not a direct rip-off of Die Hard's trailer (like I later did with the Matrix), but just something that would give the feel of an action movie. I'm still very pleased with it.

This is the first video that Ben Jackson made graphics for. After this, I think I've had him make me a little something pretty much every week. He is rather good at it...
This video is soundtracked with a track by the Crystal Method. The vocal sample on the track is Billy Graham, of all people.
The voiceover for the trailer is provided here by Fred Wright.

Interestingly, this video was not shown at TACF Airport. It was decided that the scenes showing guns were not going to go down particularly well with some parents of younger children, so it didn't air. Apparently it was very well received elsewhere.