I was surprised to see that the production company made the trailer. Is this a thing? Taking pieces from other films and stitching them together in “mood trailers?” I’ve seen them before, but I always just assumed they were fan-made.
It appears this is, indeed, a “thing” in Hollywood recently. Another producer, completely independent from these guys, had one done for Steelheart (another project I’m trying to get off the ground.) He used the word “Ripomatic” instead of calling it a mood trailer, but it was basically the same thing.
EDIT: word flow.
I guess it if it helps, I can’t gainsay it. But no dialogue, conflicting styles (I never really saw the Lord Ruler looking like Xerxes), and no consistency in actors ostensibly playing the lead characters doesn’t really do a lot to suggest to me what the film would look like. I would think something like a motion comic would convey it better—though I suppose it would represent a greater intensity of funds and effort.
Yeah. These things cost much less, and they do a lot that Hollywood likes—namely, associates your story with other popular stories. That alone makes me skeptical of them. This trailer, though, did seem to make an effort to cut in a way that didn’t emphasize the original films. Xerxes is the most glaring to me, and was the part I liked the least.
This is about the “mood trailer” that Paloppa Pictures released for Mistborn.
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