Thanks for the comments guys. This is my first trailer (soon to be feature I hope). I talked to a marketing rep last month that is going to the AFM who asked if I could have a trailer put together by the middle of October. I told them that I could (without having sets, locations, props, actors, etc). I knew all of the crew people to do it and I scraped the cash together. So the deadline was tight after finding the locales, doing casting calls and building the props.
I did all of the digital fx work (which is what I do everyday), makeup (I did the monster, Faraday was done by Toby Sells), editing, mixing, marketing materials and DVD creation. I was handed the music and sound files at the last minute to do what I could with. The surround sound mix is much better actually.
I'm not happy with the punch effect, but deadlines and details........ Theres just not enough time. But I am happy with what I turned out in three weeks considering I was working my "real" job at the same time.
The youtube version has been crunched down considerably. We are going the blu-ray route for the show. The Red is super sharp (as it should be), the DP and I just wanted a different look. We shot really fast lenses and tried to keep the environments dark. We lit the basement shots with LEDs and shifted them towards the cooler blue tones, and the house was just the opposite with tungsten lights and warm golds.
I've been working on the script for about a year off and on. There's a cool twist at the end that ties everything together with the history books and conspiracy theories.
It's been alot of work, but you know how it goes when its your project instead of someone else's........... But I've enjoyed every minute of it.
There are some interviews with cast and crew in that youtube channel as well if anyone is interested.
