Wednesday 21 October 2015

(✎) Movie Trailer Mashup Assignment

The objective of this assignment is to re-create a movie trailer and turn it into a different genre. The movie that I pick is Minions. I don't really like Minions, but read the paragraph below to know more the reason why I chose Minions as well as the steps I created the mashup trailer.

The Movie:


The Original Trailer:


The Mashup Trailer:


Artist Statement:

"The Minions are small, yellow, cylindrical, creatures who have one or two eyes", Despicable Me Wiki. "A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one",  Google Definition. 

The movie trailer that I chose is Minions. It is a 2015 3D computer animated comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment for Universal Pictures. This film is a prequel to the popular Despicable Me series. It was directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, written by Brian Lynch, and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. The film stars Coffin (as the Minions), Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, and Steve Coogan, and is narrated by Geoffrey Rush. [Minions, Wikipedia] 

The very first thing I need to tell is that I already had an idea of what the mashup trailer would looked like and that applied to any movies, I just needed to find the best and perfect one. After I researched, then the decision fell to Minions.  

Before I talk about why I chose Minions, first of all, my mashup trailer idea was to turn any movie genres (as long as it is not the same genre) to a victorious, legendary, adventure or journey movies. Why I wanted to chose that genre? Honestly, I just like movies with that kind of genres. So it would be very interesting for me to try and see if I can change a different movie's genre to my favorite movie genre through a mashup trailer. The idea and concept of the trailer was also inspired by the "Legend of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'hoole" movie trailer, as well as the "Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2" movie trailer. 

Now, why I chose Minions? I chose it because first, even though most of the time the movie's story is a mixed between comedy and somewhat action genres but it actually has some adventure clips that I can cut and put in my mashup trailer. Secondly is because the main focus of this film is only at three minion dudes, and that is very great because I really needed heroes or main characters in this mashup trailer. So I can chose those dudes as the main characters. Thirdly is because they have a lot of perfect face emotions and camera angles that can help communicate the feeling that I wanted to be in this mashup trailer. 

The original story of minions is about these three minions dudes. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: 
"Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the beginning of time, evolving from single-celled organisms into beings who exist only to serve history's most villainous masters. They find great masters—including a T-Rex, a caveman, an Egyptian pharaoh, Dracula, and Napoleon,—but after accidentally killing nearly all of them with their incompetence, they decide to isolate themselves from the world and start a new life in Antarctica. By 1968, the lack of a master to serve drives them into depression, so one minion—Kevin—plans to find a new one for his people by going back into the world. Stuart—a bored, teenage minion obsessed with guitars—joins him unwitting, as does an over-enthusiastic young Bob, who begs Kevin at first, and then is chosen due to no one else willing to volunteer." 

My version of Minions is kind of have the same story but I made it more like a journey movie instead of comedy movie. What I did is I eliminated every single funny aspect or clips in the film so that there are only serious clips on the trailer. However this is my version of the story:  

The story is about these three minion dudes who believes they can help the whole minion nation to find a new home somewhere on earth after a long period of time stuck in an ice age in Antarctica. Also, in my version, they are aliens that used to live on earth with humans in past generations but because now the past generations have gone and the new generation came, they found out that the new generations don't really like minions anymore, they treat the minions like animals so therefore they were all dumped into Antarctica. Now, they wanted a new life so they decided to take on the dangerous journey to the human world again. 

The first process that I did to create this mashup trailer is actually just finding a movie that can best fit my idea because I already have the background song as well as the idea of what it is gonna look like. My background song is called The Champion by Era. I chose it because it has a victorious tone which can help support the feeling of the mashup story. For the mashup trailer, what I did first was I downloaded every Minions movie trailer because there were three of them on the YouTube, I also downloaded the original full movie on the internet. 

After I have all the stuff I need, I did a very little storyboarding and writing notes just as a reminder in case I forgot something. Then, I started by opening Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with the setting I changed to HD. After that, I imported every trailer as well as the background song and the original full movie. 

I began the process with placing the background song first into the timeline because I wanted the mashup trailer to be based on the background song. Then, I placed each trailer one at a time on the timeline. After that, I just played around with the clips on every trailer, every time I found a good clip and match the story as well as the background song I cut the clip from the footage by using the "Razor Tool" on the timeline and placed it on a position that I wanted it to be. This is basically what I did over three weeks. 

After I have all the clips, I started to put a story to the trailer by using texts narrative, so that the viewers understand what I wanted to communicate. Then, after I finished with it, I just keep tweaking the mashup trailer until it is perfect and good to be rendered. I rendered it with H.264 option and set the resolution to 720p. 

I honestly liked the finished products. What I wanted to improve is the texts narration, I wish they could look and feel more powerful, maybe if I have more time I wanted them to be in 3D or in a 3D background.  

              Overall, I really enjoyed creating this movie trailer, I wish I can make more. I actually learned how Hollywood movies wanted to communicate a movie clearly by just using a trailer but attractive and must catch viewers attention. Therefore, trailer really matters to movies.                                                                              



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