Beautiful Garden Trailer

[Christopher Peplin]

Just finished my first feature about a month ago, which was shot on the RED. I couldn't have been more happy with the camera and what we got from it. In fact it looks like we're going to be purchasing one for our next couple of projects slated for 2011.
The trailer has been up on FB for a little while, but I just posted on Youtube earlier this week and thought I would share. I'm still working to find the best compression for internet streaming, I think the video quality can be a little better (I'll take any advice), but it's good enough for now. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlnWbBBclyc

 

[Rob Ruffo]

Cool premise, some NICE shots - I would re-foley the gun shot though - it sounds too wimpy, and too much like a question mark, rather than an affirmative.

 

[Philipe Ratton]

Very nice, agreed about the gun shot though

 

[Christopher Peplin]

Yeah, there hasn't been any post sound done yet, so that it actually the shot taken from production. I wasn't planning on keeping it as is.
I do appreciate the suggestion though. If anyone has any comments or criticisms, please feel free to post. As of right now, this is kind of a "rough cut" trailer and I still plan on cutting another trailer in the future.

 

[Joe G.]

Well, here's how I saw it...

Long, long exposition could be better done with a series of short lines from the film.

No reason is shown why all this violence suddenly erupts, so it's sort of incongruous.

The way it plays now, it seems like you're shitting on the idea of community, and that the psychos -- or human nature -- will always spoil people's sense of working together, or community. Not exactly all that appealing.

 

[Christopher Peplin]

The primary reason I used the long monologue was to avoid having to do too much sound editing at this point. My main concern as of right now is getting picture lock so that my sound editor can begin his work. This trailer was "thrown together" in a week's time just to get a little something out there right away and I figured just using the one monologue, as opposed to cutting to multiple locations and set-ups was the best way to go.

I can see your point about the violence just "erupting", though I don't necessarily think leaving the audience in the dark, with questions as to why the violence erupts, is such a bad thing. After all, you don't want to reveal too much.

One primary theme from this story is that human nature will eventually destroy all that is beautiful. So I suppose that what you have gathered from what little you saw was relatively accurate. While the film does contain certain "commercial" elements, it is pretty dark and grim at times. I don't expect it to appeal to all audiences, and it may just not be your cup of tea.