Work in Progress - August 2008 from Paul Caggegi on Vimeo.
Ladies and gentlemen... the storyboards are complete; the animatic is cut... and so this week I present to you a VERY special Work In Progress: The first draft of the Character Development Teaser Trailer.
I spent all of today just cutting this thing from the animatic. I hope it give you guys a quick peek into what the story is going to be about, but without spoiling it all.
I am a week out from the scheduled feedback session, and already, the actors are clamoring to see the cut. I have some final sound effects and panels to insert - there's some fodder for a couple of Process Diary entries for the next couple of weeks, right there. Once I have feedback, I will possibly be taking some time-out from the Process Diary to work out a few revisions.
Now a bit about the trailer. To create this trailer, I've used After Effects for the title sequences, and Final Cut Pro for the edit. The music is called "Ravenous" and credit goes to User Spinilius on www.soundsnap.com.
Soundsnap is a fantastic database of free (both cost-free and royalty free) music loops and sound effects for just this sort of production. I've actually used it for my entire sound effects track, which I will show you a bit of in the next week or so.
I'm in home territory now, cutting this trailer. I work in advertising, and cut promos, tv commercials, and info-torials every day. It's not that hard to sum up a story in a few sentences once you have a story. The usual trailer formula goes something like this:
- A place
- A mission
- A reason to go on the mission
- MOVIE TITLE
- Story by: insert name here
- Starring: insert names here
- MOVIE TITLE
- Coming soon
Commedian Movie trailer
The point of a teaser-trailer is simple: give the audience something to chew on; something to pique their interest - something which yells out "Hey - this show is for YOU. Come watch it!"
I hope this does the trick. As you can see, I've used the animatic shots to tell the story. As time goes on and I begin to replace the animatic with 3D renders, the trailer will again evolve.
So please, comment here on the blog, email me at flawedprefect@gmail.com, and just SPREAD THE WORD about Character Development.
It's on, baby!
Originally posted August 30th 2008
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5 comments:
Hey Paul is great to see it all taking shape!! Good work. Don't forget to paint up some production art if you haven't already to communicate the mood and style.
Looking good, keep at it.
Paul - Nice animatic trailer :D This thing is starting to look pretty groovy. If you bail out on this, I'm gonna fly to Sydney and give you a swift kick in the butt ;)
Two thumbs up :)
Hey Kynan, cheers for the comments. Production art is sorta done, but it's no Frazetta or Wrightson, so I'm a little ashamed of showing it. I AM however looking forward to showcasing some of the *hint-hint* modelling work that's come my way recently. ;)
Hey Dan - Me? Bail!? Never give up, NEVER SURRENDER. Yes, this story is BIG. Colossal. But it needs to be told. The more I work on it; the more people get involved, the more I am certain this thing can succeed. But of course, having the fine support of all of you guys out there really keeps me going. I know you're expecting something, and to not deliver would just be plain... rude.
...and I'm a somewhat polite gent.
Trailer looks great, Paul! Roll on.
Hey Paul,
Really nice to see this, nice designs as always, nice feeling going on with the music, and the scenes look very interesting sci-fi, and as always, looking forward to seeing more.
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