For this assignment, I edited the 2005 King Kong movie trailer to make it more like a 1930ish silent movie trailer. This worked out well because the movies plot is set during the Great Depression (1933).

I used Sony Vegas 7.0 for this. I’m usually hesitant about resorting back to my Windows PC, however, I needed to for these video assignments as Vegas is only available for Windows. Sony Vegas has many effects that helped me to accomplish the vintage – old film effect for this assignment. Of course there was the black and white effect, however, I also applied the film grain effect and some film scratch/hair and jitter effects. Also, to make it more vintage, I cut out the current Universal intro/logo and put in the old intro from back in the 1930s.

For the music track, I used one audio layer of “Beauty Killed the Beast Pt 5″ which played throughout the trailer. However, for the intense footage in the trailer, I added a second audio track layered on top and used snippets and sections from “Last Blank Space on the Map.” Both audio files were off from youtube (links below).

Beauty Killed the Beast Pt5 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06odMZRZMBg
Last Blank Space on the Map – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjbASG6dLtY

Assignment Link: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/return-to-the-silent-era/