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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