My latest professional work

DavidTO

rutt wrote:

Never wanted to see a Batman movie so badly! Great. It did popup this annoying little window, though. Something about system status, but it was really just and ad.

Hey, Rutt. That's my old new work. Poseidon is my new new work.

Thanks for the comments. That Batman movie really was pretty good.

DavidTO

wholenewlight wrote:

wasn't there just a poseidon made-for-tv remake (thanksgiving?)?

the trailer looks awesome (I hate that overused word but it fits), very cool!

Yes, why on earth they would have two so close together is beyond me.

DavidTO

devbobo wrote:

Dave, you're trailer looks great...congrats

But when are Hollywood going to get over making freaking remakes and give us some good original films

David

I wish I knew...especially like posted above they're doing it twice in one year. This movie is nothing like the TV movie, though. Big budget, big FX, it'll be worth the :lurk

devbobo

DavidTO wrote:

Big budget, big FX, it'll be worth the :lurk

They obviously blew the budget with the FXs and had to settle with Kurt Russell

DavidTO

Andy wrote:

You guys didn't remake Ernest Borgnine doing the nasty with Shelley Winters, did you

For those who are nostalgic, here's a link to the original trailer.

rutt

OK, now I saw the right trailer and it looked pretty nice. And no stupid popups, either.

DavidTO

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez

med rez

hi rez

bwg

DavidTO wrote:

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez

med rez

hi rez

cool

Shay Stephens

Wow David, beautiful and gripping. When I first heard the movie was coming out I went "pfffft" but after seeing the trailer, it looks hot.

DavidTO wrote:

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez

med rez

hi rez

DavidTO

bigwebguy wrote:

cool

Thanks. It got 5 hamburgers on JoBlo.

Angelo

nice stuff yet again David. I hope the movie plays out as well as your trailer.

DavidTO

They just posted the ShoWest reel for Poseidon, which was originally intended for exhibitors at a convention. It's 4 1/2 minutes long, and you can view it here.

This page has the original teaser (trailer 2), trailer (trailer 3a) and ShoWest piece all linked, all in regular, high def and download for iPod, if you're interested!

dragon300zx

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta (somehow I was bored during this movie) to start. It looks great on the computer, but way better on the big screen.

DavidTO

dragon300zx wrote:

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta (somehow I was bored during this movie) to start. It looks great on the computer, but way better on the big screen.

Thanks!

StevenV

dragon300zx wrote:

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!")

DanielB

StevenV wrote:

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!")

lol


whats it rated David? i wanna see it

DavidTO

StevenV wrote:

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!")

Thanks!

I liked V a lot, but there's an awful lot to hate in it, if you wanted to hate that movie, it would be very easy.

DB: not sure of the rating, prolly PG-13. Don't think it's been rated yet.

DanielB

DavidTO wrote:

DB: not sure of the rating, prolly PG-13. Don't think it's been rated yet.

sweet, thanks


so how do you put together trailers? do the studios just give you gobs of film to go over and some voice-overs and you work your magic?

DavidTO

DanielB wrote:

sweet, thanks


so how do you put together trailers? do the studios just give you gobs of film to go over and some voice-overs and you work your magic?

It varies. Some projects you get nothing, and have to make a graphic or special-shoot teaser. Others you get ALL the dailies, and have to cut from that. Some you'll get sections of the feature and have to work with that, and occasionally you actually get an entire feature to work from.

They don't give us any voice overs, although the studio will approves scripts. Then we record a narrator, or make graphics and cut SFX and music along with the picture. I have been on this project for over a year already, working on various incarnations of marketing for it.

DavidTO

Maybe it's just me, but I think this is funny.

They have my 4:30 version of the Poseidon piece up on Apple in Spanish, Italian and German. Dubbed.

Here.

patch29

I saw the Poseidon trailer showing on the Simpson's tonight. plus it was the theme in one of their skits.

Andy

patch29 wrote:

I saw the Poseidon trailer showing on the Simpson's tonight. plus it was the theme in one of their skits.

ShhhhH! I have that on Tivo :pissed

patch29

Andy wrote:

ShhhhH! I have that on Tivo :pissed

patch29

I finally saw Poseidon today. It was definitely entertaining and kept me watching the whole time.

I would like to see the making of Poseidon, too see how much is CG vs a real set.

gus

WOW !! I know batman...how cool is that !!

ziggy53

David,

Awesome work!

I have done video editing since 1" BW Reel to Reel in the '60s, and then 3/4" Umatic and live mixing in the 80s and converted over to S-VHS Industrial later. I graduated to DV-Mini 3-chip and NLE in the 90s and beyond.

You might want to share just how long it takes to mix one of these leaders/trailers. Most folks have no clue.

Again, excellent job!

Thanks,

ziggy53

ian408

ziggy53 wrote:

You might want to share just how long it takes to mix one of these leaders/trailers. Most folks have no clue.

Again, excellent job!

Thanks,

ziggy53

I put together a PSA style piece that was three minutes long. Altogether,
I think we shot maybe 5 our 6 HOURS of video and spent a solid day in
post (mind you the quality is nothing near what David does--not even in
the same league--we might have been across the country compared to
what he does). The footage was shot ENG with very little extra anything.

I don't remember the exact amount of effort but let me tell you, it was a
lot. From pre-production planning to finding interview candidates to gosh
knows what else. It was the most rewarding thing I've done at work (can
you guess I don't do this for a living yet?).

Anyway, that and a short stint as a SailTrack dude for ACTV are my only
clues as to the effort required for this work.

Ian

DavidTO

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

Shay Stephens

I have to say it again, the trailer is awesome. You do some seriously great work man!

DavidTO wrote:

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

ziggy53

DavidTO wrote:

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

David,

I am so envious! I dream of such things. Of course, dealing with the creative types that you must, you are probably severely underpaid.:):

Wow!

ziggy53