Comments on: Trailer competition, teaser

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:49:28 +0000

For some reasons there are several clips that I canÂ´t import into iMovie – does anybody have the same problem?

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:01:37 +0000

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!

By: Mike Rinaldi

Mike Rinaldi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:31:10 +0000

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?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:28:06 +0000

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 :)

By: John August

John August — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:31:56 +0000

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.

By: Sean William Menzies

Sean William Menzies — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:11:09 +0000

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!

By: Karsten

Karsten — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:50:22 +0000

Can’t wait to compile a trailer! I’m also downloading and seeding, as of… right now.

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:49:21 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:13:38 +0000

I can also mirror. I’m seeding both.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:07:57 +0000

I can also mirror.

By: Andrew P

Andrew P — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:28:53 +0000

Downloading and seeding both torrents as well.