Pinocchio Genre Change Trailer

This Project was made as part of a course I was in. The challenge was to make a trailer of a (real) movie in a different genre. The movie provided was Pinocchio, which I used to create a Western style trailer.

This Project was made as part of a course I was in. The challenge was to make a trailer of a movie in a different genre. The default movie provided by the teacher was Pinocchio, which was the one I ended up using.

The game "Red Dead Redemption 2" was soon to be released during the time I was given this project, so I decided to make something Western.

Once I had in mind I wanted to make a Western trailer, I went to look for the music I was going to use. Given that it was heavily inspired by the recently released Red Dead Redemption 2 Trailer #3, I wanted something that would convey that sort of energy and tension. I found a generic song that resembled the one on the trailer, so I used that one. As for the video, I had already decided on a few scenes I absolutely wanted to add to the trailer, but I only finished picking the scenes once I had the song ready, as I "tailored" the scenes to fit the progression of the soundtrack I chose. Once both of these parts were done, I only had to trim the videos to the required length, match key moments to the soundtrack, such as the axe hitting the puppet right when there's a "spike" in the soundtrack; as well as removing or leaving the video's audio in when it made sense to the trailer.

For this video I have used mainly the software "Adobe Premiere Pro", although, for the title "Pinocchio", I have used the software "Adobe Illustrator" to make the title in that style. The title font was based on the font of Red Dead Redemption, which I used as a reference to trace part of the letters on Illustrator. When I was satisfied with the result, I exported it to PNG. The reason for that was: I couldn't find a good western-like fonts or the exact Red Dead Redemption font, so I decided to do it this way.

To acknowledge some aspects of the video that could have been better and how I've learned from them.

Audio: Whenever the characters speak in the trailer, the soundtrack is significantly louder than their voice, and that is because for most of the movie, it has its own soundtrack, which often conflicted with the added one. Since at the time I didn't know how to treat audio at all, I decided to leave the voices only loud enough for the viewer to hear them and not have the original soundtrack be in conflict with the one I added.

Fonts: Although I "made" my own font, I acknowledge that the overall font and identity of the trailer were not as polished as they could have been (all things considered). That was mainly a lack of skill on my part, given that I was a beginner at the time I made this video. One specific issue was that I didn't know how to remove the white spots from some of the letters (which were supposed to be transparent). I somehow managed to avoid this issue with the P and the O's, but for the other little spots, meant to evoque this "rough" aspect to the font, I couldn't do so, and decided to leave them in. Another issue was how I wrote "Coming this spring" with a standard font, not fitting the identity of the font I chose for the title, which is something I wouldn't let happen nowadays.