Fuzzy Days Noir Nights Trailer.

Hello Everyone,

So Here it is The Fuzzy Days, Noir Nights Trailer Exclusively on Vimeo and This blog until I fix my formatting issues. I will do my best to fix it as soon as possible, but the trailer alone still does the show justice. Let me give a quick synopsis.

After a traumatic case, a big city P.I. Richard L. Plante, exiles himself from Toronto and moves to the small municipality of Brenford, a place full of farmers, developers, and wealthy townsfolk. Although he wants to do nothing but drown his sorrows in whiskey, he cannot help being drawn in to another case.

This is a Film Noir mixed with small town mystery, or as I like to put it, murder she wrote starring Humphrey Bogart.
ENJOY!

Trailer - Fuzzy Days Noir Nights from greenknight44 on Vimeo.

Editing Trailers, and the Webseries 'Fuzzy Days, Noir Nights'

Ever since I remember wanting to get into film (high school) I always gawked for days at the trailers of my most anticipated up-and-coming films, watching the previews twice or more a day to get pumped for the film. The fact that even after investing a couple of hours worth a month just re-watching these trailers and showing them to friends etc. continues remind me how impressive and fun it must be to be a trailer editor.


Trailers are more commonly known as previews, they show us some exciting plot points and enticing information about the film without giving too much away. In order to keep people excited for the film, I find most blockbusters leave you with a common phrase or image to remember the film by. For example, Avatar constantly had posters of profile shots of the Navi and recently, the Robin Hood trailer, one of my most anticipated films in a long time, has the fantastic use of phrase as Ridley Scott films usually do "Rise and Rise again, Until Lambs Become Lions". The phrase alone leaves shivers down my spine.

I kept these things in mind when editing my trailer for the webseries Fuzzy Days, Noir Nights,(FDNN) which will be released September 2010. Through the process of reading through the scripts, mapping out a Trailer Plot summary, and adding a few sounds, I realized how much fun and how little time it took me to edit it. I spent about 4 hours over two days putting together the trailer and the only proplem was trying to show exciting parts without giving things away.

So here's a few tips.
-if it's a show or series, put enticing and exciting shots out of episodal sequence, this keeps them guessing.
-play with your video effects like fade to white, brightness, simple stuff.
-make sure the people or the camera is moving during each shot when the plot picks up, keep it fresh and use as many angles as possible
-music is key, it drives the preview as much as the occasional dialogue. So as the grail crusader once said "choose, but, choose wisely"
-be sure to put a fresh character in the next shot, or at least a shot where they are in a completely different setting and costume, keep the colour flow constant, human attention spans are low, damn plebs ( :-) ).

But as far as I can tell they are the easiest promotional tool to get people to stay tuned and they can make or break a film. Now here are some production stills from FDNN and an awesome trailer for Robin Hood. Take note, this is what awesome looks like.



Christian A.V. Petrozza

BACK ON TRACK: Fedora's, Trench Coats, Small Towns, and Big Houses

So after the Successful screening of Pretty Boys and Dabbling In Histories: Now and Sven at the Next Generation Film Festival I am finally free of my academic obligations. I will have a copy of Pretty Boys delivered today and I will post at some point on Vimeo, but until then Dabbling is on youtube.

With the release of these huge projects which turned out amazing and after several awesome nights of celebrating with film people after two years of being limited due to my Athletic Obligations (which I don't mind at all, love you fencing people) I am finally able to get back to the long arduous task of continuing to capture the last 4 hours of the new webseries coming soon. By the end of the month, with some help from a friend, I will have a trailer ready.

But until then stay tuned and I shall continue to keep you all updated on the webseries and its post production. But in the meantime,if you have not seen it already, here is my animation.





Christian A.V. Petrozza

Problems Problems Problems, but some cool news.

I would like to start by explaining my long hiatus from my own blog. A few weeks ago before 345 ended one of the facebook widgets I applied to this page was a scam and became a redirect hack to my blog, I did not discover this until weeks later, an amateur mistake, but I'm still relatively new to this so give me a break.

I have also been arduously working on 3 grand projects which involve a lot of extra curricular time, which is what this blog was supposed to take up. I was eventually swallowed by my work. Unfortunately group work in fourth year film is not all its hyped up to be. Organization is can be a definite virtue sometimes and take note, is essential if you are getting into the film and media business, none of this 'go with the flow, we'll figure it out as it happens BS'. That's another thing, best always to be straight forward with people, or you will find things get passive aggressive very fast.

On the side I have been waiting on a potential job opportunity at the Mekkah of moviemaking, so I am keeping my fingers crossed and my cell phone on. Don't abuse it!

So besides making movies, going crazy, realizing I have a 3000 word paper due the same day as a 10 page screenplay (of course Prof X thought it would be fun to tell us it was 3000 words only a week before it was due. Thanks tips) everything is ok as long as my newly acquired SNES emulator keeps providing me with some brain-melting enjoyment upon the occasion I have an ioda of time to spare.



I will soon be posting another blog once this week is over so do not fret, I shall return with more interesting things to tell you.

Christian A.V. Petrozza