Trailer for "TANGLED WEB"!!!!

Great concept, man.

The trailer was a little tedious in pacing/length. I think if you made the video clips increase in pace as the trailer progressed toward the end it would add alot of intensity. Also, think about adding some kind of jarring sound effect each time you cut back to the webcam.

The old trailer for the Paul Newman film, The Verdict, comes to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3aJ3MGghXA
 
I agree with Shutterspeed, have the clips become more intense/faster and ramp the music as you near the end of the trailer. It sort of crawls along right now...
 
Good points. What kind of 'jarring sound effect' might be good?

This may seem an odd question, but does the footage of the rotating webcam look TOO sharp compared to the rest of it? The movie was shot in SD, but the rotating cam footage is HD.

Thanks for the input!
 
It's a bit too drawn out, even at the beginning. The cut to the web cam, well it felt a bit weird but okay.

It's fine that it's different resolution because it feels more like an image from a web cam.

One of the biggest problems for me is probably the "stealth mode" title as well as the weird retro 80's border around the web cam image. You don't need a border, in fact web cams don't really have borders. Not to mention you could even down grade the image a tad to make it feel more web cam like. Or at least have it "stutter" a bit, looking like lag.
 
Thanks Jon.

We had a lot of trouble getting a decent-looking graphic to represent the computer desktops. I'm concerned that without some sort of border, the audience might forget sometimes that they're supposed to be looking at a feed from a webcam. Webcam windows do, in fact, have borders, just like all other windows in Windows. Of course, this was all designed pre-Vista.

The problem with downgrading the image and putting in 'stutter', both of which we considered, is that since the whole movie is seen via these 'webcams', it might get reeeeally annoying to watch on and on for a tad over 70 minutes if the image was blurry and it kept 'stuttering' all the time. So we elected to create an imaginary full-screen, high resolution webcam with full motion, coupled with an Internet connection of amazingly high speed. Not reality, I know.

Thanks again!
 
David,

It only takes a few minutes to bring your audience "into" the film. After that time, you can lose the framing and "stutter."
 
I understand. I just feel like if we start with graininess and 'stutter', then ditch it, it just will be glaringly obvious that we only did it for show, and that will dampen the overall 'reality' we're trying to construct. I considered doing those things, then ultimately decided against them.

On the other hand, I decided to keep the framing throughout. Again, this goes to the reality. It reminds the audience that they're watching 'webcam' images. Also, in some parts the framing is different -- in those parts where the characters are being watched secretly by some unseen person. In those parts, the 'Stealth Mode' frame is used. I felt like it was important to keep the framing in for those reasons.
 
The problem with the border is that not only is it distracting, but sorry to say, it's ugly. If you MUST use one, find something more like a real "windows" border. They're usually one color, very neutral, and non distracting. This is why they're usually all grey of different shades.

I say lose it or make it nicer and more neutral. You are right the stuttering may be a bit distracting (though I remember a tv show that used that effect to tell the lives of bloggers) and it was fine. It was a subtle an non-distracting "stuttering".
 
First off, the borders on windows take on the characteristics of whatever Windows theme you're using. They can be solid, or they can fade from one color to another. We chose colors so we could differentiate more easily between the frames the different characters were using, as well as the 'stealth' frame.

But there was a big problem trying to use an authentic-looking window frame. The problem was that when it was size-appropriate, the text on it became distorted, fuzzy and unreadable. We tried everything we could, even asking advice on the forums here. The bottom line was the text had to be a certain size or larger, or that distortion was going to happen. Period. If the text is larger, then the frame/border has to be larger. We finally found a guy capable of making a frame that looked decent, so we went with it.

That being said, what about the rest of the trailer?
 
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