#I seriously cannot see them animating something strictly for the trailer

[victorluvsalice]

Well, I reblogged one of my ancient "trailer talk" videos for Alice's birthday back on May 4th, so I figured I could do the same for Victor's birthday today! :) Now, I admit, it was very much a toss-up between this one and the longer one with the poem, and I almost went with the latter --

But the, upon rewatching this one, it hit me. The background music on this trailer?

"In The Hall Of The Mountain King."

Yeah, I had to go with the one that had the Inadvertent Alton Towers Connection. XD So yeah, enjoy this very blurry blast from the past!

Trailer Talk #9: Corpse Bride Trailer 1 (credit to KEGUNC)

Okay, having finally finished with Alice, we move onto Corpse Bride! Which only has two trailers (or maybe three? I saw one that claims to be an official trailer, but it looks to me like a cut-up version of the longer trailer), so these’ll go by faster. At any rate, I give you the first and shorter of the trailers.

This is a pretty good trailer overall – the music chosen is fun to listen to and matches the editing used, and the clips show us some good moments. I was actually kind of disappointed that Victor’s nervous “mmmmm” didn’t go on as long as suggested in this trailer. I also like the “tagline” – “One wedding. Two brides. A grave misunderstanding.” It gets one intrigued by the story. Some further notes:

I confess I don’t understand why the “land of the living” bits were partially colorized for these segments, but it is kind of nice to see what color clothes everyone is wearing. William looks particular garish in that orange suit, and I find it hilarious that Victor is still pretty much the palest even in “color.”

I’m still trying to figure out that shot of Victor apparently running away from the church. Since this never happens in the movie proper (trailers always lie!), I suspect that’s actually speeded up footage of Victoria going TO the church run backward. It makes no sense to waste precious time and footage shooting shots for the trailer (even if the thing was filmed on digital – stop motion still takes a long time).

Similarly, I’d bet you dollars to doughnuts that shot of Emily rising in this trailer was test footage they deemed good enough for trailer purposes.

Why does Finish say “Marvelous news daughter” instead of “Marvelous news Victoria?” I suppose it could be an alternate take of the line, but the daughter sounds shoehorned in there to me.

All in all, I like this trailer, and I think it does its job well.