First I have to talk about the original trailer before I talk about my revised trailer. The original can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1_JBMrrYw8 if you want. I found the original video to be very tense due to the music. I kind of wanted the notes to move faster because they take too long. Of course that is because of the suspense they were trying to create form it. It had a kind of eeriness in the beginning but right after the suspenseful part where he gets into his avatar, I don't know what I am suppose to feel. It almost seems like the audio is skipping.
My video is more darker than the trailer. All the images are the same but I added some dark techno music. I know that is weird but it fits with the mood. I cut the music so it would fit in with the song because it is around four minutes and the trailer is two minutes. The only thing I had to force to fit in where it was not suppose to is the very end with the avatar kiss scene where it was important to make the mood more romantic even if it was dark music. I kind of made it mystical at the end so it didn't look like a romance. I made it so the piano's first appearance into the trailer was between the view over the forest and the military base to hint that there is mystery behind both the wild and the base. I had the drum come in with the armaments of the marines to create that "up" in tension and make a possibly normal thing turn into a race to arms. You then get set uneasy because nothing else seems to be violent until the organ comes in and the avatar smiles. You can't hear what he says, but you know it is malicious. The rest of the video is fighting and it fits the disturbed, eerie music. I used sound effects in the same areas as the trailer's maker did except for the roars of the monsters. I used a lot of subtle sounds like the helicopter and the bubbles in the tank to create and atmosphere when I thought it was necessary. I think the Trailer's creator used the helicopter too much and didn't allow enough scenes to create there own suspense from lack of noise. I felt the roars brought a person into the trailer, and if I could increase there volume compared to the music I would. The roar of the avatar (which is my own voice so see if you recognize me, probably not) kind of acts as a sudden realization that you are just watching it and not part of it. My whole video makes things seem like it is an image with no sound (which is different form a video without any sound) and makes you enter yourself into the trailer to hear there voices.
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