DVX Fest trailers

puckthemad said:
Oh yeah: thanks to Penguin for a good selection of slogans. I'm going to have to stock up on those for future trailers.
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Anytime, man, glad it worked out for you. :) It looks good, although it wouldn't load the player for me (the embeded version) so I had to find the URL and go to it directly. I don't know why it wasn't working.
 
Kyle Stebbins said:
Not sure I'm sold on these trailers.

I like the concept, but it feels like a poor execution.

Titles feel awkward, amateur... and the copy is strange. "Imagine what they do for Loss Fest" ???

Music isn't quite right, either.

Otherwise, this is a great idea and, if done right, could draw quite a bit of traffic to the fest.
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ow. and ow. thanks Stebbs. that's 48 hours of my life i'll never get back now. I'm done. You can give it a go if you want.

Anybody else want a do over and get it right?
 
I'm cranky and irritable and I've been fighting this last file conversion for most of the day just to get it to render out, so maybe I'm not in the best frame of mind.

If any one has any ideas on how we can improve the text and copy ,whatever it takes to make a more cohesive package to promote the site, please let's hear it.

I took this project on simply because no one else was and I;d like to see it be fully representative of the DVXFests. There is no official trailer, presspack or not even any mods saying: hey let's do this (if they are, then someone stop me), so it's kind of up to us to try to promote the DVX Fest as best as possible.

Like I said: any ideas about how the trailers can be improved, please let me know. Just don't piss all over it.

Thanks.
 
Hey Puckthemad! 48 hours... good stuff! For the DVXuser community this is a very honorable piece of work. It really says a lot about your love of filmmaking and your appreciation for this community.

Kyle has a couple points... if you are using this for outside promotion, most people won't be familiar with the fests and there themes. It might need some other explanation like... "68 filmmakers. 68 dv cameras. One theme. Lots of beer.... DVXuser LOSS FEST!".

For me, I really liked watching these and think this would be kick a$$ to have for every DVXuser fest as a highlights piece.

Well worth the time and effort you put into this.

:beer:
 
Kyle, you know I love you, but there is a difference between giving your thoughts and being an ass. I am not saying you were being an ass, but maybe that was a bit too harsh. Rodney did a fine job, in my opinion. I enjoyed them and I know others did too.
 
I'll have to watch them again later when i have a little more objectivity. I kinda just blazed through them trying to find the best parts/shots of each film. So I may have bungled it a little.

Let's see if we can stay on message and fix them up so that its relevent to everyone.

Let the suggestion flow people. Let your voices be heard.

In the meantime I'm going to do crash.
 
Rodney is prolly one of the hardest workin bastards on the boards. He is passionate about his work. I throughly enjoy watching the Promos, and appreciate having my film involved!

Rogan

Heres to more promos
 
I like the concept, but it feels like a poor execution.

Titles feel awkward, amateur... and the copy is strange. "Imagine what they do for Loss Fest" ???
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Wow - I think that was an exceptionally low blow. At least he is putting these together and doing something for the community.

That said - I throughly enjoyed the trailers as is. I saw the first two and I loved the concept. Props to you man for doing it. And the entire fest compilation was impressive.

My only comment is the audio levels do something funky when the audio from the films come in. Aside from that little detail - I like it. Excellent work.
 
thanks guys. glad you appreciated the effort.

While Kyle's comments did take the wind out of my sails, he did have a good point about lack of cohesive branding.

For any major advertising, one of the first things that needs to be decided is branding to have cohesion across the entire line. From videos to posters to banners, etc. That way you're not choosing arbitrary fonts and colors "just because you think they look cool".

I'm willing to re-edit the trailers (changing the fonts to be representative of the DVXUser brand) but some kind of decision needs to be made (probably at a moderator level) about exactly what that branding is.

If it's a set guideline that we can all follow, there's nothing stopping us from creating our own marketing schemes that are at least all related through the branding.

One good example of this is Sabi. Sabi was the first to introduce a podcast and that is one guy who is always thinking about branding. He is consistent with his materials, and as a result made me try to emulate his presentation (leader and end notes) so that there was a cohesive "dvxfest" look to them (if not a Sabi look).

Let's try to have a good marketing message out there, instead of a scattered one.

Input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Mods, feel free to chime in at any time.
 
Hey Puckthemad, THANKS, tremendous effort. Official or not is beyond my pay grade, the effort is greatly appreciated by me.

Wayne
 
i do appreciate the amount of hard work that went into these, but I'm not such a big fan of a trailer to promote how awesome DVXfests are being cut together from heavily compressed and muxed footage. Fun for a tribute video, not so great for promotion.
 
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