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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 03-31-2006 01:02 PM

This sounds like fun!

Click Here.

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THX Trailer Contest

THX cinema trailers have wowed movie audiences for decades. Some of Hollywood’s greatest sound and visual effects artists have collaborated to produce them. Now, it’s your turn. Put your directing skills to the test with the first ever THX trailer contest.

We’ll provide access to the THX logo and THX Deep Note™ audio effect; you design and produce your own THX trailer. Then, send it to us before May 23, 2006.

The top 10 submissions will debut on THX.com and receive an exclusive THX Director’s Chair.

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Brad Miller
Administrator

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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 03-31-2006 03:15 PM

I can't wait for Joe's. It will undoubtedly start with him wearing a ratty old undershirt, with his hair messed up from not washing it for days, sitting at the kitchen table eating the more incredibly sized bowl of beans you have ever seen. It's just him eating beans for about 10 seconds, then he pauses with a disturbed look on his face, leans to one side and as you see his face tighten up, a loud blast of gas is heard which turns into the THX deep note.

I would run it in my theater. [thumbsup]

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Steve Guttag
We forgot the crackers Gromit!!!

Posts: 12814
From: Annapolis, MD
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 03-31-2006 05:04 PM

Wait, hasn't that already been done?

We have the THX WOW SPL JBL SRS trailer on here!
Scroll Down to Randy's Link

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 03-31-2006 06:20 PM

They want me to spend my time and money to produce a trailer for them, and all they're offering in return is the opportunity to win a chair? Screw that. They could at least offer a prize that would represent more than a fraction of the production cost of a decent trailer.

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Jeremy Jorgenson
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Chicago, IL, USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted 03-31-2006 10:29 PM

I can hear Andy Summers's shrieks of glee ... from across the pond.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 04-01-2006 01:30 AM

quote: Scott Norwood
They want me to spend my time and money to produce a trailer for them, and all they're offering in return is the opportunity to win a chair?

That's the new American business method of graphic design.

Instead of hiring a professional graphics person armed with talent, qualifications (perhaps even a degree), just come up with a "contest." Post the details of it in any public forum, with the top prize usually less than what a real designer would have charged. Have a lot of regular people take stabs at it. Maybe you'll luck out and have a few professionals unable to get past their egos and develop some cool stuff gratis.

In the end, the approach is "throw enough shit at the wall and eventually one log is going to stick."

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-01-2006 02:25 PM

You guys don't think they're doing this to get something created for them for nothing, to use for real exhibition purposes, do you? It's just a promotional gimmick to get people thinking about THX, talking about it, and showing their "creation" off to others.

There's a huge THX "product placement" in the trailer for Over the Hedge that came with Ice Age 2.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 04-01-2006 03:14 PM

Well, hehe, with the tiny, low-rez JPEG logo they're providing to contest entrants there's little way how anyone is going to come up with something truly professional looking which THX can use in theaters.

For such a thing, you'll have to download some PDF manuals from Pioneer, Onkyo, Denon or others. You can use Adobe Illustrator to extract vector-based THX logos from there. Then you can take the vector object into a 3D app, bevel it, apply textures, lights, etc. and animate.

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 04-01-2006 06:46 PM

At first glance, I thought this had me written all over it; having produced 2D and 3D-animated trailers in 35mm already.

Then, I read Scott's response.

A chair. A stinkin' chair.

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Jesse Skeen
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 04-01-2006 07:59 PM

If I had the time to do one, I'd put in some deliberate technical errors to show how far THX's standards have declined over the years. If I produced it on film I'd make sure to scratch the negative, and make it impossible to frame properly.

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Joshua Waaland
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Cleveland, Ohio
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 04-06-2006 11:07 PM

I think Bobby is onto something here. I have seen several companies now running contests to see who can make the best commercial on their website.

*RANT*

If I see one more commercial that ends with "check out our website to see what happens" I am going to scream. If they honestly think I am going to waste my time going to their website and download the rest of their commercial so they can try to sell me something the must be nuts. Especially given that I have dial-up. [Roll Eyes]

[ 04-07-2006, 07:42 AM: Message edited by: Joshua Waaland ]

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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the
Boardwalk Hotel?"

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From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002

posted 04-07-2006 02:35 AM

Well, it says a director's chair for all 10 finalists. Does it say anywhere what the chosen one gets for them to acquire the rights to use the chosen trailer? No? Did anybody write and ask?

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 04-07-2006 03:14 AM

I started on one, but keep forgetting to work on it. I certainly don't want to put any or much effort into it. As funny as Brad's idea may be, I think setting up the camera would require too much work when I can instead just sit here, punch a few keys on my keyboard, click my mouse a few times, export and be done with it.

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Jonathan Worthing
Master Film Handler

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From: Hereford, UK
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 04-07-2006 09:54 AM

I would try but every time I go near the THX [bs]

(Copyright THX. No do not look, stop that or we will tell .) Web site I feel the $'s Leaching out of me.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-07-2006 01:35 PM

quote: Joe Redifer
I certainly don't want to put any or much effort into it.

Between this and the "website is going away" message at Joe's website, I fear he's going to self destruct or implode or return to his home planet or something. Somebody do an intervention, quick!

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