I'm working on a series of different fan trailers for Avatar, and so Ill just post em all in this one thread and update it as I make them.

1.) Neytiri and Jake: Can you feel the Love
----Not an actual trailer, just a tribute to jake and neytiri
Neytiri and Jake: Can You Feel the Love on Vimeo

2.) Trailer 1:
----first one I've made so still working out the kinks and figuring stuff out
(no dialogue)
YouTube - Avatar Trailer 1

Update 1

3.) Trailer 2.1:
----edit: now with dialogue
YouTube - Avatar Trailer 2.1

4.) Trailer 2.2:
----extended version of 2.1 and now with dialogue
YouTube - Avatar Trailer 2.2

Update 2

5.) Trailer 1.2 Dialogue:
---At Woodsprites suggestion, I have added a bit of dialogue to Trailer 1
YouTube - Avatar Trailer 1 w/dialogue

Update 3

6.) Trailer 3:
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YouTube - Avatar Trailer 3

Update 4

6.) Trailer 4:
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YouTube - Avatar Trailer 4

Update 5

7.) Neytiri & Jake: This Land
---second tribute, make sure to read the description on this one please
Neytiri and Jake: This Land on Vimeo


Update 6

8.) Jake's Journey: This Land
---inspired by a comment from Woodsprite, not a trailer
---i feel pretty good about this one, aint perfect, but I'm happily satisfied with it
Jake's Journey: This Land


Update 7

9.) Tsam'Mombasa
----i dont really know what kind of video this is, it was late, i was bored, and i liked the song...so i orchestrated some clips to the song.
Tsam'Mombasa


any comments/criticisms/suggestions if you got em



also my Earth series of videos (2 of 3) is here if you haven't seen em
YouTube - Earth's Natural Wonders
YouTube - Age of Man

thanks for looking!!

"Can You Feel the Love" -- Loved it, but the Pocahontas music at the end was a bit out of place.

"Trailer 1" -- Pretty eye-popping and well-edited for a trailer (very well-edited for a trailer, considering I've seen a lot of fan-made ones and they're mostly quite subpar), but ended a bit abruptly and not much dialogue... though, sometimes no dialogue works, but here it seemed like there needed to be at least one line.

"Trailer 2.1" -- Same reaction to "Trailer 1", though I did notice the mood was changed a bit in the beginning.

"Trailer 2.2" -- This extension was much-needed, considering the music involved, so the ending wasn't as abrupt and melded well with the rest. The best of the three, IMO.


All in all, MARVELOUS job with all of them! You really know how to edit well considering what shots you've got to work with. *applauds*


EDIT: Wowie kazowie! This is my 1,500th post!

thanks for those reviews Woodsprite!! those were awesome!

*yeah now when i looked at Trailer 1, it could use a couple lines of dialogue

*the video "can you feel the love" actually had "colors of the wind" and "can you feel the love" instrumentals blended into it, yeah "pocahontas" music at the very end was a bit outta place, but to me it fit the emotion a tad better than the way the "can you feel the love" instrumental ended

*yep the extension does finish off stronger, but i liked the abrupt, "omg they just got squished!" ending of 2.1

*for these trailers and videos, i basically cut up the entire movie (as well as some TV spots) into small segments that i could edit together, my video edit software files bank has like 200+ clips from the movie that i cut to splice into videos

thanks again!!

so Trailers 1, 2.1, and 2.2 have all been updated to include bits of dialogue in the mix! enjoy!

comments and criticisms if you got em

Absolutely LOVED the new dialogue bits; brilliant. Just brilliant.

Thanks woodsprite! you had a great idea with the dialogue! definitely added that final bit of polish to these trailers, made em seem more real official-like too in my mind lol

Oh wow, I love them! :]

Especially the tribute, hope the all get alot of views!

thanks Unap!
ive got another song lined up for a new tribute but im working on a new avatar movie trailer right now....it gets addicting, piecing and orchestrating these things together! its fun!
(plus ive got another song and idea lined up for a new video in my Earth-themed video series)

Update

Trailer 3 is now up!
(its almost double the length of trailer 1, but longer isnt always better, so idk about this one. In my trailers, I am trying to not use the same clips in each trailer so its getting harder to combine the unused clips in an interesting and compelling fashion. Hope Trailer 3 works out well!

Mmm...

...Didn't like it as much as the others. I mean, at first it was pretty good stuff. But the music transitions didn't seem that natural, and the the shots toward the middle of the end were a bit strange, like when Jake says, "Trust me now", and then he falls over; kind of awkward. And then the ending shots with the music had so much promise, but (in my mind) fell flat with the lack of *punch* on that final musical note.

It was still pretty good, but I liked the others better. Excellent effort!

i definitely know what you mean Woodsprite, i tried to cover up the music transitions with movie dialogue and the montage of clips at the end was weird, i might go back and re-work it
thanks for the comments!

Trailer 4 is up!

Update
Youtube just copyrighted my Neytiri and Jake tribute video, ill try to upload it elsewhere....lame

Well, first off I gotta say I'm sorry YouTube felt the way it did about the Jake/Neytiri tribute...

Secondly, about trailer 4: Absolutely fantastic. The only thing I thought was wrong was the fact that the music ended way too abruptly at the end, like it was interrupted. But other than that, everything was fabulous. Excellent work!!!

Well the tribute will be up on vimeo later tonight, (im working on a second one...which is not nearly as good as the first one... but it was still fun to make and has some nice music in it)

but yeah all this copyright stuff is lame, its pretty damn obvious i aint claiming those clips as my own

Seriously? thats awesome!! trailer 4 took some elbow grease to iron out, so im glad it worked out and you liked it!

About it ending abruptly, that was to punctuate the AVATAR at the end as well as the end of the clips, and thats actually how the main song there at the end actually finishes, that abruptly. butttt also the jake speech audio i was using ended that abruptly too, so it made it difficult to end everything super smoothly