Obligatory PoA Trailer Entry

[permetaform]

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!

Comments

[stevie-jane.livejournal.com]

Nice breakdown of the trailer, and I must agree: it's amazingly well put together. A visual delight and the music is simply perfect. I'm really fond of the choir in particular, the song words quotes from Macbeth fit the tone so well, and they also reminded me of a Greek Chorus in some ways. Just wondeful.

[penm.livejournal.com]

*tears hair out* WHERE CAN I FIND THIS TRAILER!?

[stevie-jane.livejournal.com]

Download - here (http://serpensortia.org/stef/hp3.mov).

Enjoy.

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

You know, the trailer itself is great, but I just want THE MUSIC. *plays again and again in the background*

[jenicomprispas.livejournal.com]

Lovely analysis...my own thoughts were more to the effect of "OMFG SQUEEE!1!!!1!one!1!!" *watches again*

[tacks.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, brilliant breakdown. Going to link this. I agree with everything, that the use of the song is fanTASTic. I love how it brings that element of a childhood into it, with the school children and choirs thing, but in a very separate way to muggle life -- the toads under their arms and what they're singing about skew it; and the way it is so alive! It's darting and bouncing all over the place, it feels like something else entirely.

It was so much more...of a sensation than previous trailers, if you know what I mean. It wasn't just timing, because the long CoS trailer had that all wonderfully fitting to the music, but it was the images chosen especially. I liked the contrast of the exterior and interiros; white snow or blacks for outside, and then the interiors were generally golds and warms or dark browns and blacks.

It felt much more adult, more professional, more...developed. And confusingly both much more real and yet also more fantastical, because it was so overwhelmingly real in every sense, in so much detail.

And oh good god I have babbled.

Question; did you by any chance do film studies at some point?

[permetaform]

I was thinking that TOO!! D'you think it's up on Kazaa yet??? Or perhaps even if they have a longer version?

[permetaform]

hee! yeah, mine too, but then I want to start raving about it to other people and trying to get them to watch it too, and then my overanalysis freak comes out and, well, it's all downhill from there...

[permetaform]

OH!! a greek chorus! You're *right*, that does make sense! ::GLOMP::

[darkeyedwolf.livejournal.com]

Haha, great minds think alike. http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org has a link up about the composer, and if you go to his website they have the mp3 file available for download - but it still has the voice overs and stuff.

[tancaliel.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THANK YOU.

Um, excuse the all caps. But, but, my computer has no sound, and I have an MP3 player but, as can be expected, it only plays MP3s and no Quicktime movies.

OMG TRAILER WITH SOUND. O_O

Haha, I somehow managed to start the movie on my comp and the MP3 on my player at the exact same time and it was as if I was just watching it normally. XD

The sound makes it SO MUCH BETTER than it already is.

Switching between normal and fangirl modes, are we? *runs off*

[permetaform]

YES! ::scurries over::

[permetaform]

I think it's partly the movement with the timing, the swaying and the zooming and...y'know, when the Trio was walking down the steps I kept thinking "HOBBITS!"

it's the greenery I swear. And It's AMAZING what high quality film can do; I think they're really paying attention to the color and sound this time around and I'm seriously so. loving. it.

and babble is good!

as for the film studies, argh, I wish. my engineering reqs really give me no more room for humanities courses.

[copper-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh, geesh...thanks for posting this intell about the HP trailer. And to whoever posted the link. I downloaded it, but then couldn't play it until I zonked over and got QuickTime as well...but boy was all the time worth it (I only have a dialup...slow, slow, slow...)

I adore this trailer. Must have watched it ten times by now. And I wantwantwant the song. It's so bright and yet so dark at the same time. The Hogworts Chorus class, toads and all. Whoever did the music to it is totally brilliant!!!

And, man, the cinematography is gorgeous. The standing stones and the castle in the distance and the snow coming down...there's just too much to gush about.

This is one series I hope they do the whole thing right, because it will most likely be my favorite movie series ever if they do. And so far they seem 3 for 3, granting that I haven't seen anything but the trailer yet.

(sigh)

CopperRose

[permetaform]

ditto. I have very very high hopes for viddable H/D interaction, the director's past work indicates that he's amenable in that direction and that he has a love of the lovehate relationship...

in regards to the music, they have it on mp3!!! ::points towards other comments:: link is there! It even has info on the composer on the site and there's voiceover on the mp3!

[bluebyrd.livejournal.com]

D00D... Almost every single one of the shots in there is just gorgeous. It's got atmosphere, it's got vision, it's got magic.

And that shot of Snape in the vulture hat is the stuff userpics are made of. ^_^