Captain America: The Avenger Trailer

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Pujo

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Hello everybody. New user here. I purchased a Canon XH A1 with a letus adapter a year ago and decided to film this little project over the summer. We've been getting a lot of props from comic book fans so far, but I'd like to know what some of the professional film makers out there think of this creation:



If you like what you see, click on the youtube link so we can get our view count up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgsR3aLQUWI

Let us know what you think!

-pujo

PS: I know trailers aren't supposed to go in this section, but we didn't have the time or resources to turn this into a full movie, although we'd definitely like to. So this is all we got.
 
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This is awesome. Pujo, are you really in Oakland? My buddies and I in the Bay Area do martial arts action films, perhaps maybe we can collaborate at some point.
 
I'm working on WW2 film also here in the bay area, I scouted a lot of those locations you used. Unfortunately, the graffiti turned me off and I had to look elsewhere. LOL
 
edsonkwushu said:
This is awesome. Pujo, are you really in Oakland? My buddies and I in the Bay Area do martial arts action films, perhaps maybe we can collaborate at some point.
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Aahh damn! Should have asked for some help in here before we started filming. I was actually looking for some Wushu and Muay Thai guys to serve as stunt doubles for the Cap and Red Skull. Unfortunately, all my martial arts buddies have moved down to Southern California. Argh! Some crisp, elegant but brutal fight scenes would have been perfect for this trailer.

I would be more than happy to collaborate with you, especially since you are in the Bay Area. I'm currently finishing up my last college trimester in frigid ass Minnesota at the moment, but I'll be back in the Bay either in the spring or summer. People have been asking for more Captain America footage, so I'm thinking of lengthening this project another 20 minutes or so if I can get all the original actors in one place. And if you got any good ideas for projects, let me know.

Marlontorres - your WWII costumes are amazing! So is your portfolio. When you were scouting for locations at Ocean Beach, did you come across the colony of crusties living in the old machine gun pillbox? They scared the crap out of me.
 
awesome work, nice and gritty which is a great contrast to the pristine and clean look the rest of the comic book films have
 
wow, this was amazing.

What did you shoot this on? WHat did you use for sound? Lighting? Any setup shots? How did you get all your wardrobe made? What did you use/source for the CGI stuff?

What was your budget? How long did this take?

Really impressive, i mean it looks almost like it could have been made by one of the big studios.

jon!
 
That's talent

That's talent

That was unbelievably awesome! You need to get this out somewhere, when a studio see's what you've dones with so little budget they're gonna make you the next Neil Blonkamp.
 
Let's see...I shot most of the movie on my Canon XH A1, both with and without a letus adapter. Slowmotion scenes were shot at 60i, and everything else at 24f. We had a secondary cameraman for a few days who used a Panasonic HVX, but I didn't like the way that footage turned out. Definitely not the fault of the cameraman. Alex Maclean is a skilled kid and he's only in high school. I just don't like the picture quality of the HVX with a 35mm on it. Everything looks like it's being shot from a fishbowl. The only shot on that camera that makes it into this trailer is when Cap decapitates a Nazi. I found that the picture quality of the XH A1 has a kind of pixelated graininess that resembles the texture of an actual film, perfect for the kind of grittiness I was trying to get on camera.

I don't think there was anything too special about Cap's costume. Since most superhero costumes these days are just pieces of dirtbiker armor and motorcycle jackets, we did the same. The only problem was learning how to sew again. Getting all those patches on there was tough. My brother and I put together all the costumes. For the stuff we couldn't put together, we visited this excellent army surplus store on San Pablo ave. in Berkeley.

We shot the outdoor scenes at Ocean Beach and Alameda Air Station. Ocean Beach was great because of all these great WWII era concrete structures scattered around Fort Funston, although they're covered with graffiti. The indoor scenes were shot in a sound stage at a near by high school. Luckily for us, the place had an amazing array of lights to choose from.

The project took a few months to finish. This my first time shooting in HD and working with lights, so I spent a lot of time trying to get used to working with a bunch of new equipment. I also helped out with the sound design, although most of the credit goes to Tyler Straub, our professional sound dude. He really knows his shi*. A guy named Emanuel Wazar volunteered his CGI services for the movie, so that was a big plus. I did most of the green screen work in After Effects and edited the final project in FCP. If I wasn't trying to finish up college, I probably could have finished the post production process in a week or so.

We ended up spending about $500 on this project, mostly on food, gas, and costumes. All the actors and other crew members volunteered for this project. Everyone did an amazing job.

Thanks for all the praise! I don't think I'm at Neil Blonkamp's level, but I am applying to the same film school that he went to.
 
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Thought I would post this crude collage of stills that show the difference between the original footage and the final cut. One of my favorite things to do is play around with color correcting techniques in post-production.

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haha so I guess were not going for that hollywood PG-13 crap huh? I dug it and I'm really really really freakin over the comic book stuff. (Minus Batman) But I clicked on the link to be a troll and ended up impressed overall.

Good CC and Captain America shots. The rifles looked really bad but other than that the only real problem I found was the voice acting towards the end of the trailer. Thanks for the view.
 
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