Lakeshore CI
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
You've Got Mail Remake
Original Trailer
The original trailer.
Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the internet.-IMDB
As our first big CyberARTS Tech. project we were assigned to create a movie trailer. Sounds easy? Thats what I thought at first. Then we were given the entire outline. We had to take a trailer that was already made and popular, and completely change the genre. For example Thriller to Romance, Romance to Horror, Comedy to Action or Cartoon to Thriller. I had a hard time thinking of a movie to use for this project, I had a list of a dozen movies that would work. I finally decided that changing the Warner Brothers film : You've Got Mail from a romantic-comedy to a creepy stalker-thriller movie.
To create the movie trailer, we had to use iMovie '07. I am more familiar with iMovie '08, and I had to relearn how to use the older version. I still prefer iMovie '08, but I am glad I now know how to properly use iMovie '07
Since there is a strong computer based relationship between the main characters, I decided to focus on that topic. There are a lot of other themes I could of chosen from the trailers, but cyber-relationships are so common that I figured more people could relate.
I wasn't too sure how I would switch the genre of this movie. I watched a variety of thriller trailers to figure out the music score and the order of the clips. I found that the music was constantly intense, to keep the viewer on edge. and the order of the clips was quick paced. I tried a variety of intense music, but only a few suited my trailer. So I stayed with the computer theme and found a recording of the keyboard typing. I think it suits it well. I used the fade-in and fade-out effect a lot in my trailer to create the dramatic pauses.
I also couldn't decide on how to do the voice over. I didn't want one of the typical "movie" voices, so again, I stuck with my theme of the computer. I got one of the "computer" voice generators and I saved it as an audio file and I turned it into my voice over. I think it suits it perfectly.
Below is the completed trailer:
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