The WORST trailer for the GREATEST series ever! - Thank you fox.

POSTED BY: Stillshiny
UPDATED: Friday, July 21, 2006 02:35
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If you look REALLY close, you can see a few fractions of seconds of unaired material, like Zoe actually sneaking around the pro-alliance drunk from The Train Job. Yeah, it's bad, but it made me watch the show!


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JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Originally posted by Stillshiny:
"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion

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Where did this quote come from?? I love it!

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You know, I just keep doing this and I get teased for it a little... but this is what the vid contest we talked about is for.

How would you advertise Firefly? Can you take scenes from the eps and do better than F*X did?
How would you market this to folks who have never ever seen it and make them want to see it? Hook them as F*X was trying to do back then.

We're gonna put those vids on youtube and myspace... if folks will please make them. We need them.

OnT: The trailer was horrible.. Nathan was handsome though. Teasing.. I'm just teasing.



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Good God, that's bad. That's why I didn't tune in right away. As with most Browncoats, a friend at the time told me, "You've got to see this show!"

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Sadly when the show first came out I was playing chess on Friday nights. So that gave me no opportunity to even see the show if the commercials had even made it look good. This is going to make me seem really computer illiterate (which I am) but what program do you need to get clips out of the show or movie? Are there more than one? Just curious because I like doing stuff like this.

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Originally posted by OneManShort:
Sadly when the show first came out I was playing chess on Friday nights. So that gave me no opportunity to even see the show if the commercials had even made it look good. This is going to make me seem really computer illiterate (which I am) but what program do you need to get clips out of the show or movie? Are there more than one? Just curious because I like doing stuff like this.

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You on a PC or a Mac?

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Originally posted by OneManShort:
This is going to make me seem really computer illiterate (which I am) but what program do you need to get clips out of the show or movie? Are there more than one? Just curious because I like doing stuff like this.

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I know nothing, and am as stupid as the day I was born concerning vid editing. So, when I’m an idiot, I turn to the internet, as always.

Video Tutorials
http://www.atomiclearning.com/moviemaker2
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/videogetb.html
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/index.html
http://www.alter-idem.com/index.php?now=5

I found this outline on an old thread, very interesting reading. Good starting point, specific to music vids, but parts can apply to the trailer project as well.
http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=9150

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CONCEPT
A video concept is a deceptively simple thing. The best way to describe it is as a vision. What you want the vided to be, how you want the viewer to feel, what you want them to think, to understand. In short, why you're making the video. This is hardly an exhaustive discussion, so what is possible goes far above and beyond what I make mention of. It should also be noted that sometimes a concept doesn't need to be stronger than a video and a song - not every video needs a strong concept. Attempting to strengthen a concept in a video that doesn't need it can kill the video. That said, when to apply the concept and when not to is a matter of taste for the editor. After all, the overall goal of any video is to communicate something, right?

STORYTELLING
The idea here is both very restricted and very open-ended, depending on what story you want to tell and how you want to tell it. Some videos retell the story, others tell entirely new stories. There's a large area in between, where the story is told but changed or a twist is added.

SYNCH
Synch is the core of the editing process itself. It is the connection between music and video. Without synch, you have video, and you have music, but no real connection between them.

MUSICAL
AKA Beat synch. This is where you cut, fade, use effects in time to the music. While sometimes simple to execute, this can get very complicated very rapidly. Many songs will have more than one musical line going at a time, and sounds of varying volume and tone. As an editor, you have to pick what you think is important, and synch to that. Sometimes the music itself presents a clear lead line to work with, but this is frequently not the case. What you show, how strongly you show it, and how you show it are all choices to be made. Most videos make use of beat synch heavily. To ignore the music itself is considered extremely bad form, most of the time. Without extremely good reason, such as comedy, the video ending, etc., missing a significant change in the music is considered a major slip-up on the part of the editor.

LYRICAL
AKA Literal synch. In short, you match what is being said to what you show. There are varying degrees of lyrical synch. The connection between what is said and what is shown may be readily obvious, heavily symbolic, or nearly anywhere in between. One type that deserves special mention is the comedic association: an association made specifically to make fun of something or someone, or something absolutely ridiculous. The associations should be ones that the viewer can understand, though. If the associations are so strange or symbolic that the viewer can't understand them, then the editor has likely slipped up. Unless they're trying to make an incomprehensible video, that is.
A second type that deserves special mention is lip-synching. This is where a character (or characters) mouth movements are matched to the lyrics such that the character (or characters) appear to be singing or speaking. It is considered good form to lip synch entire lines at a time, with partial lip synch being somewhat looked down on.

EFFECTS
There are two schools of thought on effects, one at either end o

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