Obligatory PoA Trailer Entry

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The new PoA trailer?

Is one of the BEST vids I have ever seen.


~ Music: initial strings and wind sounds, joined by a lone electic keyboard (?), interesting choice of traditional sounds with a modern one. Traditional scenes of Hogwarts v. the coming of Harry Potter? is a thought.

~With the choir setup? I like it because of the implied narrative effect, ie. they are telling this story of wickedness walking and trouble brewing; children and toads singing of implied evil, innocence and absurdity layered one on the other, helped by the fact that its followed by the Boggart scene.

~ Intro: gorgeous curling of the smoke with the logo, caught me RIGHT from the curling, because the smoke curls and fadeouts are timed freaking well. The opening violin (?) chord progression reminds me of LotR, and lends a similarly epic feel that's subseqently contradicted by the music box quality of the electric keyboard upon the arrival of the carridges.

~ The sped up shots of the Great Hall and the swerve of the bus aligning with "toil and trouble" are *fabu* uses of movement.

~ And of course you then have the dark shot (of the Knight Bus) changing to that shot of Harry, where he's superpaleGLOWING, on "Fire Burns", startling use of color/contrast.

~ And the upswell of key on "Cauldron bubbles" with the floating Dursley and a scream distinctly resembling that of an elephant...heee!!

~ The gracenote chimes as Draco (blowing on "double double") is blowing the crane! lovely!

~ "Toil and trouble" matching up with a shot of the Trio! heeeeeee!

~ On "Something wicked this way comes" boggartSnape comes in! ::highly amused::

~ Sirius laughing *right* at the high point of the next line, oh perfect *perfect*!

~ Followed by the slight zoom-in on Crookshanks hissing and stepping back, and yet all *still* following the submerged beat of the "Something Wicked" song. And this followed by the most MARVERLOUS timing of Snape whipping around.

~And Snape alerted by trouble, paralleled by the messenger owl flying towards Harry?, that precludes the sequence of Sirius scenes, which is another superb squence using movement, zoom in + zoom in + zoom in then a pause of movement at Sirius, then a movement *away*, a zoom *out* on the shot of Harry and the flash of light.

~They did another color trick with using dark Sirius scenes and then Harry, invoking the Map(?), with a shining light then switching to an bright outdoors scene. 'Harry lighting up the darkness', marvelous.

~ Hermoine on "toil", Hagrid on "trouble", the candle lighting on "fire burns", Hogsmeade(?) (then McGonagall) on "cauldron bubbles". ::too. amused.::

~ The movement of the door and the sharp-grating creeeak of wood is *marvelousshivery*!

~ The last "something wicked this way comes" right after The Hand curling on on the doorway? Brilliant. Brilliant.

~And the last few keyboard/chime notes with the whooshing and lightning strikes...shiverysweetinnocence with the sound of a storms approach...::utter. squee::


Nevertheless, I'm unsure as to how it works as a trailer for the uninitiated. The scene changes make sense to me, as a fan and as a vidder, but as a working trailer? hmm.

I don't think I'm unbiased enough to have a good perspective on that.

However, if nothing else the trailer is eyecatching color-wise and the editing displays a most incredible, giddy-fying sensitivity towards sound, movement, and emotion. If the same group that worked on the trailer edits the movie with someone who has a strong sense of plot/storyline?

My freak, but the movie's going to be incredible.

[edit] penm's written a thematic interpretation of the trailer and it's beautiful.ficlike! go see!

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YES! ::scurries over::