I think it's pretty good for a conventional trailer, but I think the music that plays toward the end sounds too stock and doesn't fit in with the atmosphere that was built up before it. Also I think it shows a bit too much of the xenomorph if we're still thinking in the context of "we're selling this to a 1979 audience who has never seen Alien or even knows what a xenomorph looks like". I think what makes the original theatrical trailer so incredible is that it never actually shows the alien at all, so expectations aren't built up on "I want to see the big spooky man in a suit", and instead all the audience knows going into the movie is that there's [i]some[/i] kind of alien on the loose and everyone's in danger. That way, expectations keep getting smashed when it keeps evolving from facehugger -> chestburster -> adult alien
That being said, I still think the trailer's well made. I think the way the premise is set up is the best it can be done.
[QUOTE=Yogkog;50704750]I think it's pretty good for a conventional trailer, but I think the music that plays toward the end sounds too stock and doesn't fit in with the atmosphere that was built up before it.[/QUOTE]
This and the first bit of dialogue feels like it's too long for a movie trailer. Stuff like that usually gets cut down to be as short as possible and still get the point across.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjLamj-b0I8[/media]
You can't outdo the original
[QUOTE=Yogkog;50704750]I think it's pretty good for a conventional trailer, but I think the music that plays toward the end sounds too stock and doesn't fit in with the atmosphere that was built up before it.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I wanted a tense build up and a dramatic mash up of scenes from the film in the final section of the trailer and I found it really hard to transition between the two, I figured using the reveal of the beacon not being a distress signal helped to change the mood so I used that to transition to a slow build up ready for the drop before the final montage.
All the music in the trailer (except for the [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6CaTL29_FQ"]violin build up track[/URL] I added over the top in a couple places and the [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smGqShDQCCw"]bass drop[/URL]) is taken from the video game Alien: Isolation. I would have used original Alien soundtracks, but the soundtracks in Isolation are a lot higher quality for obvious reasons, and they also allowed for some more action-y sequences.
All the other audio in the trailer (screams, etc) is from the film, except for the "You Are My Lucky Star" recording and "Space Whale" sound effect at the end, both of these are also from Alien: Isolation - again, for quality reasons.
If you're interested in checking out the tracks I used, here's the [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi2fYdXwIG8"]first[/URL], [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6PRVFp7MU"]second[/URL] and [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1r0QgoGhOU"]third[/URL].
Thanks for the feedback!
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[QUOTE=Splarg!;50704840]This and the first bit of dialogue feels like it's too long for a movie trailer. Stuff like that usually gets cut down to be as short as possible and still get the point across.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, in reflection I think the opening dialogue does go on a little too long. I was trying to set the scene and start off with slow pacing so that the final montage had more of an impact. I figured that Dallas' scene where he tells the crew what MU-TH-UR has been up to would have been a good way to combine these two, but I agree I should have cut it down further than I did.
Thanks for the feedback!
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