Sontaran Trailer
 

Made my first video this week with iMovie on the Mac (brilliant, really simple) and used Sontaran Strategem and Poison Sky trailer with the Xray Dog - Dark Empire Remix 2.0 music and its worked out great.

Disappointed that the music came through in some bits (Its the whole world) but it was Murray's excellent musical climax.

So yeah, love to have some tips here and there. And I do realize that there is a little blip between the Doc shouting SONTARAN and Staal introducing himself and also between the Code Red Sontaran stuff.

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Less crossfading, more direct cutting.

No.

I ask you sir, what were you thinking.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

WTF?

Danny explain. Please.

Oh and David Tennant is on Darren Brown

Oh and Danny the clips freeze and jump if I don't use transitions.

Huh? Explain what?

The obvious explaination Mr Minty, is that you're schizophrenic.

I would seek serious psychiatric assistance immediately, especially if you cannot recall making that post at all.

Murray went through a brief period like this after people laughed at Death at a Funeral. He didn't understand it was actually a comedy movie but dammit he was just too into his work composing for the film to take notice of what genre it was.

Comedy Gold on DannyStewartforums.com

Really? That's odd, he's also on 'Derren Brown'.

I've never visited that web site. Is it any good?

Comedy Gold? Comedy Murray Gold?

You're a complete and utter throttledyke, Jamie.

Can you feel the love.

If you had read earlier you'd understand.

Some "throttledyke" commented "It's shit" using my account. So I just edited it and said no.

But still thanks for trying to offend me ... Mark: F

You boys shouldn't play so rough. Someone's gonna start cryin'.

What happens if you take Reset btw? Your title doesn't really fully persuade, I need details of the possible consequences rather than just a declarative statement.

Watch Torchwood, then you'll find out that Flies will explode out of your tummy!

Don't think I can have something that long in the little sub-heading.

Thanks guys for going off topic with something I've done ... not at all annoying :D

Mind you this thread has the potential to be one of the good Off topic threads!

Should I bother posting the new version of the trailer?

Yes please do.

And I've seen Torchwood, I was just being annoyingly pedantic as usual ;).

I like the offtopicness.

And the line breaks! Yay Line Breaks.

Okey Doke.

Everyones Pedantic

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Just making the odd lines clearer here and there. Explosion sound continued at end instead of the theme sound effects. And one new clip.

A-N-A-L-A-S-I-S

Would of thought it would get boring.

Its great. It smells funny though. A good smell nonetheless.

Do you mean 'Everyone's pedantic'?

Do you mean 'analysis'?

Would "have", actually.

No


Nope

Maybe I meant ANAL - asis

To be honest I don't care what my spellings like ON THE INTERNET, because I'm ON THE INTERNET (a world made to be free of care).

Yorz Sinserely/\][
Jamie

^^ The rules that you're rampantly shitting on :)

How refreshingly naïve.

Thank you, sir.

It's called a typo. Its no big disaster if I spell Darren Brown Derren Brown. Everyone knows who I mean. Stop being so pedantic. COuld someone try and give a shit about the video instead of making it a nag-at-Jamie-Fest

Way to steal the snarky comment I was going to make not once, but twice;

Seriously. This is what happens when I go out instead of lurking the internet.

Attempt at wittiness: Mark F. F for Failcakery.

That's the point.

I'm quite sure the only rule on this forum is that you can do whatever you like, just as long as it doesn't annoy anyone. That is, anyone who Danny actually likes and/or the DSF collective conciousness.

Refreshing like when you have a bucket of hot piss poured over your head while you're wearing your favorite new jumper? Yeah, I suppose you're right.

It can be if we want it to be.

Anybody? Somebody? Please?

At least the words Failcakery and throttledyke are imaginative.

I'll give you that

That is the first thing I consider when I make up a rather unusual word, 'WILL Minty like it?".

What's your opinion on 'buffoonaroid'?

Yay, I always dreamt it that way!


The stuff that drops our of a dogs arse after eating curry.

No only joking, you have made my day Mr. Ron.

Anyway, slightly off topic, but Sontaran related, I got the 'Bred for War' Boxset from HMV today, which has all of the Sontaran stories from the classic series. I watched 'The Time Warrior' this morning and thought it was alright, but not absolutely smashing. I'm going to presume Sontarans are more awesome when there are lots of them, and that 'The Two Doctors' will be good simply because Colin Baker AND Patrick Troughton are in it.

I know the feeling.

Failcakery is my official word of the day. It may even make word of the week.

:cool:

That is exactly the kind of "refreshing" I was referring to.

QFT.

No, sorry. I already commented anyway. Too many crossfades. Kind of like "tl;dr" except more like "tmc;dc" (too many crossfades; didn't care).

Wow, you should like totally do web coding or something.

I agree, I should. Purely because of that remark. :P

I'm aiming for word of the year. Let's go team!

Fifty percent more characters, one hundred percent less ubiquity!

CAUSE SEMICOLONS TOTALLY GIVE YOU CODING POWERS.

Ronnie is teh authoritar.

Colin Baker makes any episode of DW bad.

I like how, as soon as I enter the thread, you stop trying to stand up for yourself. Good form, you old card.

Out of experience I know I can't win when you enter the thread.

I'm still not giving in to ummmm ... whatever it is.

BTW Danny, what do you suggest about the crossfades. I can only use different transitions because if I get rid of them the video jumps and freezes and it will all be out of sync.

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I just tried editing together random scenes from The Sontaran Stratagem in iMovie (both '06 and '08) and I had no problems with "freezing" or "jumping" or anything of that sort. It just worked, like it's supposed to.

I found out what it is. Its something else but complicated. It is my FIRST time of using it after all, not a surprise I got confused.

Made a Doomsday one in though with less fading at then end with the crucendo (no idea how you spell that).

But these aren't really trailer as they are very spoilery.

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One would think not doing a crossfade would be a relatively simple matter.

Crescendo.

And there's still too much fading.

Quite.

Well, if you want some constructive criticsim, I'll take a shot at it.

Work on the transitions, a few of them were rather jarring the way the frames went from one to another. The bubble transition.. thing, near the start was unneeded. Never use anything like that, in my opinion, just clean cuts.

The text you added was hard to read due to coloring / size.

Music was overpowering in some parts and the entire thing didn't have something "binding" it all together, music and background noise was going up and down, this way and that, all willy nilly.

Your also right in that it's not a trailer, more like an episode recap, considering it shows everything. Maybe try making those, over a trailer? Not saying you can't make a trailer, this is just nothing like one.

Overall, work more on making it bind together and have a sort of theme. The volume, background noise / music, colors, fonts used, etc... These all need to mesh together and not jump all over the place.

Hope that helps. :)

Bingo.

It is. Basically when I click in the middle of a clip and press play it jumps for the duration of the clip and then goes to normal. Its just something that happens if I'm editing. (told you it was a long story)

Well I think at the beginning and end of the Doomsday video it is effective (jumping through characters emotions) and I would like to keep it there. I'm starting to know what you mean though (in the middle) it becomes repetitive and takes out some excitement


I thought I would use the different transition so it isn't the same old transitions the whole way through. In the Doomsday one it was also meant to separate the Rose bits but I do think it looks out of place.

I view full screen on iMovie and its OK. But watching it on my iPod I found it hard to read and also the read font in the Sontaran one was hard to see. I needed to use a lighter color.

Don't like the fact Murray's music protrudes in the background sometimes. If I had Tom's program I could remove the incidental. Balancing the volume of clips will take a long time but I may look into it one day as it does annoy me.

Will call them recaps or summaries in future. Its just that the music I use is used in trailers a lot so I just automatically thought to call it a trailer.

Instead of making these changes to my current videos I would like to integrate them into new ones. I would like to make a 42 one or the Series 3 finale (inc. Utopia). Might get onto making a Series Summary with Requiem for a dream or Preliator (Lacrymosa remix) for the music (as they are longer). What do you mean by jumping about? Would like to sort that out. I know there is one jumpy bit in the Sontaran "trailer".

Thanks, for the tips guys.