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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 09-22-2002 10:21 PM

I think movie trailers with dates on them are pretty funny, especially when the trailer is still playing on the front of another film well past that date the trailer listed.

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Frank Angel
Film God

Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 09-24-2002 08:08 AM

In the arthouse world, we are happy to get ANY older trialers that we can get our hands on -- dates or seasons ("Coming this Christmas") in the audio or not, although sometimes those season things can work if you are reeeealy lucky.

I use Letraset graphics products that work very well for just this situation. The product is a thin strip of black flexible material with adhesive backing that is the exact width of the soundtrack.

Next you play the dated trailer, and using a grease pencil, touch the film on the base side when the date is spoken and release it when it is finished. It would be great to have one of those stand-alone optical playback units that you can plop down on the rewind bench and roll back and forth like we used to do editing reel-to-reel audio tape -- but I have to settle for threading up in the projector -- so be it. Sometimes it takes a few plays to get it exact, but once you get the knack, it's easy. Next you just lay the tape over the soundtrack for the length of the grease pencil mark and wipe the mark off. We did this recently on a trailer for the STARWARS trilogy trailer in which each release date was announced for the three films. It worked so well that you almost didn't notice the second or so where the sound went mute.

Arthouse guys are dogs....we have to make everything and anything we can get our hands on work. Don't get me started on making 1 sheets from any existing material, even old LP soundtrack album covers, and scanning it into a computer, working it in Photoshop and then tiling out the 12 sections to an inkjet printer, glueing all the 8.5x11 sheets together to make a fairly passable 1 sheet.

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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001

posted 10-26-2003 04:59 PM

If the trailer says "Strength . . . Courage . . . Hope" or any variation of same, you can tell the movie is gonna be [bs]

Current examples: Master and Commander, The Last Samurai, The Alamo.

If the trailer uses the ever-present Trajan typeface, you can tell the movie will make you [sleep]

Current examples: Master and Commander, The Last Samurai, House of Sand and Fog.

If the trailer uses original typography, you can tell the movie will be [Smile]

Current examples: Love Actually, 21 Grams, Something's Gotta Give, Calendar Girls.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-26-2003 09:06 PM

How about if Trajan is used inventively, like in "The Missing?"

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Brian Guckian
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 594
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Apr 2003

posted 10-27-2003 02:39 PM

Frank, you should do what Mr. Remington did and buy the company!

I worked in a cinema where the policy was to chop off offending out-of-date dates, even if the card came up in the middle of the trailer... [Embarrassed]

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 10-27-2003 06:24 PM

deleted by author- forgot I already had posted the same thing on the first page [Razz]

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-03-2003 12:58 AM

quote:
If the trailer says "Strength . . . Courage . . . Hope" or any variation of same, you can tell the movie is gonna be

or "Powerful"...

"An all-too real human drama.."

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Eric Hooper
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 532
From: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Registered: May 2003

posted 11-04-2003 10:15 AM

On the "Lost In Space" trailer:

"Get ready for the most human adventure of them all"

Ummm, as opposed to what? Aren't all movies 'human adventures'? I cringed everytime I saw this trailer in the theatres....

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