Trailer competition, teaser
Tomorrow, full details of the long-gestating trailer competition will be announced here (and at the lookforthenines site). You’ll have two versions of footage to choose from: DV and MPEG-4. The DV is big and beautiful. The MPEG-4 is small and nimble — and not as bad as you’d think.
To get ready, Erik Beeson has helped seed two torrents of goodness, which you can start downloading right now.
Here’s the deal: If you’re using the torrents, help us seed. That means keeping your client open after you finish downloading, so others can share.
If all this talk of torrents and seeds makes you curl into a fetal ball, fear not: there will be a directly-downloadable version of the MPEG-4 footage tomorrow. (We’ll need mirrors, so if you have some bandwidth to spare, leave a comment to volunteer.)
Also tomorrow, you’ll get the quote-unquote rules, including the deadline (it’s one week) and details about how to post your work, promote it and rig things in your favor.
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September 18th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’ll volunteer to mirror the footage. Also, I am acquiring both the MPEG4 footage and the DV, and I’ll leave both versions seeding once completed.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
I hope everyone participating has NOT seen the movie yet – that levels the field.
Its gonna be interesting to look at the results… thanks for letting us do this! :)
September 18th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Downloading and seeding both torrents as well.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I can also mirror.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I can also mirror. I’m seeding both.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I can mirror for a day or two and I’ll keep the torrents open for the next few days.
I’d like to run together a new trailer, but how revealing is the footage we’re working with? For those of us who haven’t seen it, will the footage give away too much?
Thanks for making this stuff available. Great idea.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Can’t wait to compile a trailer! I’m also downloading and seeding, as of… right now.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Don’t think it’s really fair if I join in, I’ve made trailers for a living and now work closely with our studio’s trailer department. But good luck, peeps! Can’t wait to see the results!
September 18th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
The footage in the trailer competition is essentially the same footage used to make the official trailer, with long enough handles and real audio. It doesn’t spoil anything that you wouldn’t get from the trailer.
Anyone can play. It’s not a cash reward; it’s bragging rights. Anyone can brag.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
For everyone who hasn’t watched them yet, it’s 120 clips, with an average length of about 4 seconds each (longest is 0:28, shortest is 0:01). Many of them have no audio. Those that do have audio often have (as John said) “real audio”, meaning the sound that was recorded on set (including cues and “CUT!”s and whatnot).
Working with these clips isn’t going to be like cutting a trailer from footage you take off of an already produced DVD. I think the best trailers will probably be the ones with the best sound editing.
@Sean (#8) I’m not sure if that’s an advantage or not. I’ve seen a lot of trailers that I would classify as terrible come from “studio” movies :)
September 19th, 2007 at 12:31 am
John, I really want to see The Nines. Is there a particular way to request the movie from a distributor or to urge local theaters to bring it in?
September 19th, 2007 at 5:01 am
Wow, I wish all torrents were seeded like this one. With my crap euro-internet I was downloading on average around 450kb/s! Thanks, all you seeders!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:49 am
For some reasons there are several clips that I can´t import into iMovie – does anybody have the same problem?