Posted by Shay on March 18th, 2010 (1 comments)
I was perusing Hulu’s movie trailers when I came across I thought looked awesome. I’m a little ashamed to say the movie title because I like lame romantic comedies with actresses that people always make fun of. Anyway. I’m all excited for this movie. It looks funny, the love interest is kind of hot.
This looks amazing! I can’t wait to drag one of my friends to see it!
Then the hammer is dropped right on my last little piggy. The movies isn’t coming out for three months! Help me understand this. Are we now so obsessed with getting there first that we have ruined trailer-viewing? I blame Harry Potter and the Trailer That Came Out a Year Early. Seriously? First it was the teaser trailer at the one movie on opening weekend. Okay. So what that I have to see I Am Legend in IMAX to see exclusive footage of Dark Knight. I was going to see both anyway.
I remember when trailers could only be viewed in one of two places-on TV and at the theater. I thought that trailers online would mean more trailers of movies I could see this weekend. I feel like I’m being tricked.
Want to see a great movie?
Abso-freakin-lutely!
Here’s the trailer!
That looks awesome. What are the showtimes?
Oh. Nay, nay. You don’t get to see this one right now. You have to sit in anguish while far crappier movies are released from the same conglomerate/movie house before this awesome one. We’ll make you wait, Idunno, 4 months. Yeah. That sounds like a good wait time.
Oh, screw you movie executive.
It’s gotten ridiculous. And now you have the teaser trailer, the theatrical trailer, the trailer, the exclusive clip, the interview, the featurette, and the making of. I just want to see the damn movie. No “Coming Soon” or “Summer 2010.” Is that too much to ask, Mr. Movie Exec. Can you only put out trailers for this month?
And here one I just stumbled across. Grr. I love trailers. I’d like making trailers to be my bread and butter one day. It’s seems to be the marketing and promotion department is the one I should steer clear of.
Categories › Final Projects, Post Production, What Next
Topic Tags › movies, rant, trailers
Posted by Shay on November 3rd, 2009 (0 comments)
Here’s an interview with Giles Timms, Director of Deal All Along. But first a blurb from his site gilestimms.com:
Giles Timms is a director, animator, illustrator, and filmmaker.
Inspired by Russian Cut-Out Animation, Comics and Expressionism, Giles has cultivated a distinctive technique that is textural, stylized and painterly. Using history and its motifs, Giles creates pop surreal worlds that are grounded in the real – 3D worlds in a flat 2D paper style.
Giles’ films have won several film festival awards and have also been featured on such notable sites as Boing Boing and Cartoon Brew.
MTI How did you pick the song?
GT Ceri Frost and I both decided it would be a fun song to animate.
MTI How did you come up with the concept?
GT Well, I knew I wanted to tell a story, even though the song was just under 2 minutes. I provided Ceri with 2 short treatments for the ideas I had and then worked from there with his input.
MTI How big was your team?
GT Umm, it was just me…so not very big 
MTI What was your biggest obstacle?
GT Fitting a story into a 2-minute song.
MTI Did any obstacle surprise you?
GT Well, I’m not sure I had any obstacles really. The hardest thing about the project was the challenge I set myself to create a story for the short song. The story evolved through the course of the project, so there were minor stops and starts, but no real obstacles as such.
MTI How long was each phase of production? Pre? Post? In?
GT I work somewhat atypically for animation, so pre was a few days at most, production was about 98% of the work, and I used about a day for editing.
MTI Did UCLA have any guidelines?
GT Mostly they wanted me to push the story, other than that, not really.
MTI If so, what and did you find them limiting?
GT No, I think that the limits they set (that the music video should tell a story rather than be a series of images tied strictly to the lyrics) helped me. I find limits a good thing, in general.
MTI What are you working on next?
GT Just finished a few more treatments for some new music videos, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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