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tastes like chicken · Boot Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 50

I AM a video editor who has cut a number of trailers (all for small Indies, you probably haven't seen any of them unless you do the festival circuit) and I was impressed even though I recognized most of the footage.

The cut between the Transformers meteor thing hitting the ball field and the shaking in Rob's apartment was brilliant. Big time kudos.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:39 am

Guest · Guest

well done

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:05 am

JadedMax · Decorated Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 157

Really great work. I'm almost more motivated to see this movie because of this trailer than the original.

JJ Abrams and Co. should take a notion from this kind of work. It's great to wrap yourself in a mystery but when the mystery begins to outweigh the goal to be gained the mystery becomes unfulfilling.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:26 am

AfterDystopia · Decorated Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 170

While it is a very well done trailer created by splicing together footage from multiple trailers/movies, I think it's the exact opposite of the feelings this trailer is trying to convey. It's emphesising the the "epic" portion, that humanity is a big bad force that can take any monster, and we won't go down without a fight, but the original evokes feelings of hopelessness, and the viewpoint of the handheld camera only makes that more apparent.

All in all, though, a great job, very nice editing.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:43 am

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Raptor · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 24

Good point AfterDystopia.

That's actually the kind of trailer I tried to make. A little more "mainstream" and perhaps even unoriginal since almost every action related movie trailer is kind of edited like that.

But I do prefer trailers like the original one because it is far more interesting and scary. It just really stands out.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:42 pm

Melampus · Unfettered Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 653

That KICKED ASS!

Excellent work, Raptor. Worshippy

"Impressive... MOST Impressive."
- c'mon, do I even need to cite the source?

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:54 pm

Guest12367 · Guest

I didn't mean to sound down on the trailer, it was great, but with personal experiance in flash, movie maker, photoshop, and various other program, this is really not so impressive. It was a great trailer, but had you done a fake special effect of the creature or something it would have even been better. =)

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:01 pm

Tweek178 · Boot Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:07 pm

nooneimportant77 · Unfettered Joined: 31 Jul 2007 Posts: 379

nice job !

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:12 pm

Raptor · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 24

The thing with cool special effects is, if you want to do it right, you better take some days off because it takes a lot of time to create.

Some people even say the effects in 1-18-2008 will suck because of the 33 million budget.

Though I could have added some additional camera shakes, crackling or other subtle disturbances.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:21 pm

guest12367 · Guest

A 33 million dollar budget is fine for special effects, i have seen some intense special effect videos made by people in their spare time, with no budget.
Even youtube has some really good special effect artitst that just goof off.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:51 pm

Tweek178 · Boot Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:37 pm

Kingpin

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:55 pm

Raptor · Boot Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 24

That world wide black-out comes from the 10.000 BC trailer. Actually, all the footage comes from a few recent trailers.

I've seen that Shining trailer btw, it's indeed an awesome edit.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:15 pm

elvis cocho

omfg

**Posted:** Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:18 pm

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