Last post, I said "I'm definitely taking a break from videos after this. I need to get back to basics" and reviews. And then...
If Hollywood can crank out remakes, why can't we? For reference, please go
here to watch my fan trailer for the 2007 Hitman movie. And reviews
for both movies are
here
(2007) and
here
(2015). If you'd like to know more about this rehash, and the personal value I
felt in putting it together, please keep reading.
In all honesty, I'm out of fresh trailer ideas for the time being. What I
figured instead was that I could give Hitman: Agent 47 the same
treatment I gave the original movie, but with some technical and visual
upgrades thanks to switching from Blender to Final Cut Pro and additional
editing experience since the summer. However, that also made me a bit
conflicted, as someone who always says that everyone should at least try free
and open-source software first, and not shell out money unless it's absolutely
necessary. So, Blender was used for the text, that Fox logo is
someone else's (beautiful) Blender model, and that scramble effect on the text is not something I would've figured out in Final
Cut. Unless it wasn't allowed for some reason, I'm really
surprised 20th Century didn't do something special with the searchlights in the movie's actual opening. It felt like a missed opportunity.
For a ridiculous concept, as far as copying something I did earlier in the
year, I ended up going all out and getting good editing practice in with this
project. I did a lot more sound work than usual, and I have my main
process/pipeline pretty much down at this point. As someone who's mostly
self-taught and regularly flailing through these, feeling like I was
successfully following some kind of checklist for this one flattened the
uphill battle of getting this movie to pretend it's faithful to its source
material. One day stealth will be its own tv and film genre...but today,
unfortunately, is not that day. My first complete draft of a trailer is
usually much rougher, but what I initially showed people really felt like 80
or 90% there. So, I'm getting better at this, and it's a nice thing to
celebrate. Still, I'm really glad they got a first glance at the video before
it went public.
Like I always say, these wouldn't come out as well as they do without the
screen tests with the
FanTrailer
community.
TheMarvelStark
and
Will Wallberg
gave me some great notes on finishing touches. Sound design was improved
further under their direction, and they found an area where one more mechanic
of the games could be shown, disguises! Please check out their wonderful work
and other projects that people are doing, too.
This video, and others are collected, on-site, here.
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