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Category Archives: Observations and Provocations
Django Unchained International Trailer: Marketing (and Exploiting) Tarentino’s Signature Style
I love Tarentino films, despite their trailers, which emphasize the visual pleasures of his style but miss the sublimity and substance of his films. (Perhaps that’s an impossible expectation for a trailer?) Hearing of the Django Unchained trailer (above) for … Continue reading
Posted in Observations and Provocations, Readings
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MOVIE TRAILERS: Free samples, but of what?
A FREE SAMPLE FOR A DIFFERENT MOVIE THAN THE ONE ADVERTISED The universe of audio-visual heralds for audio-visual entertainments keeps expanding, as I hope to have demonstrated in these posts. Consequently, I find myself revising my definition, conception and understanding … Continue reading
Movie Trailer Editing: Tips, Best Practices and Links
One of my close friends is currently enrolled in Video Symphony‘s 14 month editing program, so I’ve been absorbing editing theory and technique every time we’re together, and reminding myself of the subtlety, complexity and sheer artistry involved. Thus inspired … Continue reading