Thierry, you want me to send you Antti's voiceover files?

Angela, I'll try to do something with Antti's voiceover too.

Thierry, can I use some of the footage you have? Or do you want Antti's voiceover for your own teaser? Or should we both do teasers?

Thank you Thierry!!! Needless to say, the sooner the better. Very sorry I did not come to you with this request earlier, but I seem to have only now made up my mind about flying to Italy for the event (and I still have no tickets!)

Dammit, I need a p-fleet uniform ASAP!!!

Nice going Angela!

:D

Okay, should I try using the music on my teaser too? I still have to do something with Antti's recordings.

We recorded a lot of material, enough for a trailer too, when the film is nearer to completion. We also recorded him saying "Coming Soon" etc.

Fabienne, you gave us instructions not to use pop/dance music! :D

It's nice to see the new footage. :)

One part I would leave out is Kari falling over in front of Pirk, because it's not clear what is going on without the context.

Fabienne, can you find a PD or CC recording?

If you can provide a music track I can build a teaser around it. :) All of those composers would be well suited to a film trailer I think.

Actually, Thierry, I've just remembered that I still have all those Finnish-language clips of Dwarf and Pirk from the language task. Maybe I could use them in a future update.

Martin: Great idea! I'll do that whenever this is updated, will wait for a bit more feedback first though.

David: I really hate aspect ratio mistakes too, but it seemed a bit pointless fixing them when the actual effects were missing too. :) Like Thierry says, the aspect ratio can be easily fixed in the editing software. This video is just to demonstrate the general concept.

Angela: ;)

Thierry: The ending was semi-intentional, it was left in there after the previous version but I thought it worked fairly well at the end of this new version too. I think it's important in helping the viewers know what kind of film this is.

I'd move the shot of him falling out the chair to after the shot of the ships going to warp... twist

"Eeeeeeeeek!" *faints*

Well done Kris. :)

One thing though, they are widescreen shots that have been forced into a 4:3 aspect ratio. (Many people doesn't seem to mind such disproportion, but it really bugs me. As an artist I have this tendency to over analyse perspective and visual relations, so these things tend to jump out at me. While I kind of suck at colour composition I have developed my sense of shape. (But I do go to an art school, and I am working on getting decent with colours as well.))

Thierry: Ending on a humorous note like that is a time honoured tradition, so I would conclude it was intentional.

Damn, your good at this!

Antti, I think I might be going to Tampere Kuplii in a couple of weeks time?

OK! Do you have a time in mind already? I take it you'll be working with Angela when she comes to Tampere in April, but that's a still month away...

Antti, I have a pretty good mic intended for voice work, we recorded the Landing radio spot on it. Maybe I can tape you next time I'm in Tampere?

Sure I can do this. Doesn't look like it'd be too much trouble. The two problems I can foresee are sound quality (unless we can appropriate the sound systems at the office, it'll be down to my Skype headset) and direction (we'd probably have to swap sound files and comments a lot to get the tone just right).
As for the teaser itself, overall I like it a lot, though I think the pacing could be tightened quite a bit. Of course, I realise this IS just a rought cut.

Jarmo, you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju3h7yk4Hcg

Maybe Antti could start ranting right at the end, and he would fade out just as the 2Pi logo appears.

I really liked the music, it creates a nice contrast AND it's totally different to anything heard on Star Wreck before.

The texts could be sharpened a bit. Take them even more out there. For example, imagine somehting like:
"The Enemies of peace... will be defeated... crushed, disemboweled, ripped to bloody pieces and fed to the space pigs!"

with Antti starting calm, but getting more frantic towards the end of the sentence... Or something.

Someone with that deep, silly trailer voice?

This is a good trailer!

By the way, if you do use this teaser perhaps we could persuade Antti to read those texts instead of showing them?

I don't know if he would do it, but we could always ask, or maybe someone else could read them.

Thanks Seppo!

Fabienne, if I could have a clip of the P-Fleet ships engaging the Dramakulian ships, I could put it just after the "...will be crushed" line.

The last part of the music was stretched anyway, so I can extend the music to cover the clip of the battle.

This teaser really has some weird "twistdrive" in it! Thumb up. This teaser might not need more explosions or weapons after those gags with seats and bridge, perhaps more terrified facial expressions and a close up of Dramaculian ship or armada.