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  • Need input on movie trailer

    Posted by Jerry Waters on December 29, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    OK, guys. I’m nearing the end of my movie, “In the Plan.” The sound has not been mastered but I went ahead and did a trailer:

    https://homepage.mac.com/zav/Trailer.MP4

    Ready for comments, suggestions, criticisms. The running time is 1:40. It was shot in HDV (Sony Z1, FX1 and an A1U), edited in Vegas, used Magic Bullet. The music of the trailer in Cinescore (my first time to try it and it was easier than I thought it would be).
    Thanks,

    JerryW

    Randall Raymond replied 19 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Allen Zagel

    December 30, 2006 at 12:05 am

    Wow! Eerie! I thought it was quite good. However is there a reference to the Buddah? I would have referenced it in the trailer better.

    Allen

    ASX Media Productions
    https://www.asxvideo.com

  • Jerry Waters

    December 30, 2006 at 12:10 am

    The story is about a bank robbery going bad and the lives of 4 people involved – two detectives. One, an African-American female, keeps a Buddha with a rosary around its neck on her desk. She is the “sage” of the movie and this is referenced in a second trailer I’m doing now. I should have it posted in the next day or so. Thanks for the response.

    JerryW

  • Randall Raymond

    January 1, 2007 at 7:22 am

    Bad trailer for what, looks like, some decent acting.

    Good trailers tell you what the movie is about, and persuade a person to buy or rent it.

    Ditch this trailer. Start over with a VO that begins: “What happens when a bank robbery goes very wrong…?” Re-edit the whole thing.

    (The zoom in on the bag of coke in the trunk is an insult. Like we couldn’t figure out a plant when we see one.)

    Hint: take a real hollywood trailer and match it – if you did 30 cuts, a hollywood trialer would do 100 in the same time frame. Try it – as a study.

  • Jerry Waters

    January 1, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    Thanks for the comment. I’ll try a different cut but your biggest help? It was the VO suggestion. The movie isn’t ABOUT a bank robbery going bad. That is only an event. It is about HOW LIFE WORKS and that should be made clearer. (We all know what happens when a bank robbery goes bad. We’ve seen that a thousand times. For a change, you haven’t seen what happens in this movie a thousand times.)

    JerryW

  • Randall Raymond

    January 1, 2007 at 11:21 pm

    [JerryW] “(We all know what happens when a bank robbery goes bad. We’ve seen that a thousand times. For a change, you haven’t seen what happens in this movie a thousand times.)”

    Now you’re talkin’. The trick is to match the pace of your movie in the condensed form of the trailer…then double it!

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