My latest professional work

[DavidTO]

Quicktime movie (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot6/)

and another here. (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot5/)

[4labs]

Great work David. I am looking foward to the movie..

[tmlphoto]

Great work David. I am looking foward to the movie..
Way cool David. A very intriguing trailer, really makes you want to see the movie. Looks like something a little different.

[dragon300zx]

I've seen that already but I didn't know it was done by you. I still find it hard to beleive that I know the person who creates these trailers that make all my friends foam at the mouth. And I got to eat dinner and lunch with him. Hmmm maybe I shoulda had him autograph my camera.

[MuskyDude]

I was going to ask in what capacity, but I didn't want to impose... Btw excellent trailer, very effective. :thumb :thumb


AJ

[DavidTO]

I was going to ask in what capacity, but I didn't want to impose... Btw excellent trailer, very effective. :thumb :thumb


AJ


Editor. Thanks to all for the good words.

[wxwax]

:clap Sweet! How many of those suckers do you end up making for a major release?

[Shay Stephens]

O ma ga

Ho lee free ho lee

Sue eet

[DavidTO]

Thanks, Sid.

Shay: U R 2 Kind.

[Nir]

Fantastic David! I didn't know.

[luckyrwe]

Awesome video! More more! With very few changes you can make it a police recruiting video. We could use a hero in L.A. :thumb

[devbobo]

Way cool David...I have always loved Batman...and really love the concept of this movie.

Extremely jealous that you have such a cool job.

Cheers,

David

[GREAPER]

Cool stuff David.

They sell the movie well.

[Skippy]

Quicktime movie (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot6/)

and another here. (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot5/)
Hi David......I was looking at the shorts to that movie the other night, thinking ohhhhhhhhhh they've done another Batman Movie :rofl you must have the best dang job!

Congratulations David......... and thanks for the links :D
Skippy (Australia)

[patch29]

I have seen a few trailers in the theaters for this movie too, did you work on those also?

I have to admit this is one Batman movie I look forward to seeing, I only hope the movie can live up to the trailers. :D :thumb

[Nikolai]

Quicktime movie (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot6/)

and another here. (http://media.themoviebox.net/movies/batmanbegins/TVSpot5/)
I guess I know now what I will be doing on June 16 weekend..:D

[DavidTO]

I have seen a few trailers in the theaters for this movie too, did you work on those also?

I have to admit this is one Batman movie I look forward to seeing, I only hope the movie can live up to the trailers. :D :thumb

No, just those spots.

Thanks all for the kind words...and yeah, go see it ;)

[marlof]

Wow! Amazing job, David!

[patch29]

I watched Batman Begins yesterday and really enjoyed the movie. I am not a long time Batman follower, not even sure if I have seen all of the other movies, but I liked this one and I feel the casting was excellent and hope they return for another. :thumb

[Angelo]

excellent stuff David. I can't wait to see the movie.

[patch29]

I also liked the comment I heard about the movie that it was not a prequel but a new start to the series. :thumb They said it better than that, but I can't remember the wording at the moment. :scratch

[ChrisJ]

Awesome! Great work. I've been looking forward to the movie for a while.

[DavidTO]

I wanted to share another feather in my cap. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/)

[Andy]

I wanted to share another feather in my cap. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/)


David... I do *not* watch trailers - ever - but I could see in the first few seconds that it's looking good! Can't wait to see the movie :thumb

[DavidTO]

David... I do *not* watch trailers - ever - but I could see in the first few seconds that it's looking good! Can't wait to see the movie :thumb


What? It's against your religion? Or you don't want to give the story away? IT'S A REMAKE. You already know how it ends! It spurred the highest sales of any issue of Mad Magazine with their spoof, "The Poopsidedown Adventure".

Sheesh.

[GREAPER]

David. Nice work again, When I heard they were remaking the Posiden adventure I would have bet money against wanting to see it. I think remakes are done way to often when there are so many stories that have not been told...

But I gotta say, you have me wanting to see it.

[DavidTO]

David. Nice work again, When I heard they were remaking the Posiden adventure I would have bet money against wanting to see it. I think remakes are done way to often when there are so many stories that have not been told...

But I gotta say, you have me wanting to see it.


Thanks!

[Andy]

What? It's against your religion? Or you don't want to give the story away? IT'S A REMAKE. You already know how it ends! It spurred the highest sales of any issue of Mad Magazine with their spoof, "The Poopsidedown Adventure".

Sheesh.

You guys didn't remake Ernest Borgnine doing the nasty with Shelley Winters, did you :lol3

[rutt]

Never wanted to see a Batman movie so badly! Great. It did popup this annoying little window, though. Something about system status, but it was really just and ad.

[devbobo]

You guys didn't remake Ernest Borgnine doing the nasty with Shelley Winters, did you :lol3
Dave, you're trailer looks great...congrats http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/icon10.gif

But when are Hollywood going to get over making freaking remakes and give us some good original films http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/umph.gif

David

[wholenewlight]

wasn't there just a poseidon made-for-tv remake (thanksgiving?)?

the trailer looks awesome (I hate that overused word but it fits), very cool!

[DavidTO]

Never wanted to see a Batman movie so badly! Great. It did popup this annoying little window, though. Something about system status, but it was really just and ad.


Hey, Rutt. That's my old new work. Poseidon is my new new work.

Thanks for the comments. That Batman movie really was pretty good.

[DavidTO]

wasn't there just a poseidon made-for-tv remake (thanksgiving?)?

the trailer looks awesome (I hate that overused word but it fits), very cool!


Yes, why on earth they would have two so close together is beyond me.

[DavidTO]

Dave, you're trailer looks great...congrats http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/icon10.gif

But when are Hollywood going to get over making freaking remakes and give us some good original films http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/umph.gif

David


I wish I knew...especially like posted above they're doing it twice in one year. This movie is nothing like the TV movie, though. Big budget, big FX, it'll be worth the :lurk

[devbobo]

Big budget, big FX, it'll be worth the :lurk
They obviously blew the budget with the FXs and had to settle with Kurt Russell http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/lol8.gifhttp://dgrin.com/images/smilies/lol8.gif

[DavidTO]

You guys didn't remake Ernest Borgnine doing the nasty with Shelley Winters, did you :lol3


For those who are nostalgic, here's a link (http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=poseidonadventure) to the original trailer.

[rutt]

OK, now I saw the right trailer and it looked pretty nice. And no stupid popups, either.

[DavidTO]

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_lo.mov)

med rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_med.mov)

hi rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_hi.mov)

[bwg]

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_lo.mov)

med rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_med.mov)

hi rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_hi.mov)

cool :thumb

[Shay Stephens]

Wow David, beautiful and gripping. When I first heard the movie was coming out I went "pfffft" but after seeing the trailer, it looks hot.

OK, that was the teaser. Here's the trailer.

lo rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_lo.mov)

med rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_med.mov)

hi rez (http://raincloud.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/poseidon/trailer2/trailer2_hi.mov)

[DavidTO]

cool :thumb


Thanks. It got 5 hamburgers on JoBlo (http://www.joblo.com/movietrailers.php).

[Angelo]

nice stuff yet again David. I hope the movie plays out as well as your trailer.

[DavidTO]

They just posted the ShoWest reel for Poseidon, which was originally intended for exhibitors at a convention. It's 4 1/2 minutes long, and you can view it here (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/showestreel/).

This page (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/) has the original teaser (trailer 2), trailer (trailer 3a) and ShoWest piece all linked, all in regular, high def and download for iPod, if you're interested!

[dragon300zx]

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta (somehow I was bored during this movie) to start. It looks great on the computer, but way better on the big screen.

[DavidTO]

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta (somehow I was bored during this movie) to start. It looks great on the computer, but way better on the big screen.


Thanks!

[StevenV]

Saw your trailer for Poseidon in the theater the other night waiting for V for Vandetta

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!") :D

[DanielB]

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!") :D
lol


whats it rated David? i wanna see it:wink

[DavidTO]

ditto here (though I wasn't bored during "V"). The other folks in the audience looked at me strangely when was cheering for a trailer ("Yay David!") :D


:D Thanks!

I liked V a lot, but there's an awful lot to hate in it, if you wanted to hate that movie, it would be very easy.

DB: not sure of the rating, prolly PG-13. Don't think it's been rated yet.

[DanielB]

DB: not sure of the rating, prolly PG-13. Don't think it's been rated yet.

sweet, thanks:thumb


so how do you put together trailers? do the studios just give you gobs of film to go over and some voice-overs and you work your magic?

[DavidTO]

sweet, thanks:thumb


so how do you put together trailers? do the studios just give you gobs of film to go over and some voice-overs and you work your magic?


It varies. Some projects you get nothing, and have to make a graphic or special-shoot teaser. Others you get ALL the dailies, and have to cut from that. Some you'll get sections of the feature and have to work with that, and occasionally you actually get an entire feature to work from.

They don't give us any voice overs, although the studio will approves scripts. Then we record a narrator, or make graphics and cut SFX and music along with the picture. I have been on this project for over a year already, working on various incarnations of marketing for it.

[DavidTO]

Maybe it's just me, but I think this is funny.

They have my 4:30 version of the Poseidon piece up on Apple in Spanish, Italian and German. Dubbed.

Here (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/poseidon/showestreel/).

[patch29]

I saw the Poseidon trailer showing on the Simpson's tonight. :thumb plus it was the theme in one of their skits. :D

[Andy]

I saw the Poseidon trailer showing on the Simpson's tonight. :thumb plus it was the theme in one of their skits. :D

ShhhhH! I have that on Tivo :pissed

[patch29]

ShhhhH! I have that on Tivo :pissed


:doh

[patch29]

I finally saw Poseidon today. It was definitely entertaining and kept me watching the whole time. :thumb

I would like to see the making of Poseidon, too see how much is CG vs a real set. :D

[gus]

WOW !! I know batman...how cool is that !!

[ziggy53]

David,

Awesome work!

I have done video editing since 1" BW Reel to Reel in the '60s, and then 3/4" Umatic and live mixing in the 80s and converted over to S-VHS Industrial later. I graduated to DV-Mini 3-chip and NLE in the 90s and beyond.

You might want to share just how long it takes to mix one of these leaders/trailers. Most folks have no clue.

Again, excellent job!

Thanks,

ziggy53

[ian408]

You might want to share just how long it takes to mix one of these leaders/trailers. Most folks have no clue.

Again, excellent job!

Thanks,

ziggy53


I put together a PSA style piece that was three minutes long. Altogether,
I think we shot maybe 5 our 6 HOURS of video and spent a solid day in
post (mind you the quality is nothing near what David does--not even in
the same league--we might have been across the country compared to
what he does). The footage was shot ENG with very little extra anything.

I don't remember the exact amount of effort but let me tell you, it was a
lot. From pre-production planning to finding interview candidates to gosh
knows what else. It was the most rewarding thing I've done at work (can
you guess I don't do this for a living yet?).

Anyway, that and a short stint as a SailTrack dude for ACTV are my only
clues as to the effort required for this work.

Ian

[DavidTO]

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

[Shay Stephens]

I have to say it again, the trailer is awesome. You do some seriously great work man!

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

[ziggy53]

Thanks, all.

Ziggy, the answer's actually not going to sound all that impressive...although the process is. Mixing a trailer is one of my favorite parts of my job. The mix itself usually takes 1 full day, sometimes two. What you don't see reflected in those numbers is all the work that goes into the trailer before that point. Concept, scripts, presentation, finding music, SFX, narrator, designing graphics, cutting picture, dialog, SFX, MX, prepping for finish, making music cue sheets for publishing rights, cutting more SFX tracks, etc., etc.

I usually cut with 20-60 tracks in offline. The sound editor will add another couple hundred, and the room we mix in is a full-sized movie theatre, just without the rows of seats, a ginormous mixing console, and the best sound I've ever experienced in a theatre.

David,

I am so envious!:lust I dream of such things. Of course, dealing with the creative types that you must, you are probably severely underpaid.:):

Wow!

ziggy53

[patch29]

David,

Do you think you could whip out revised trailer for Smokey and the Bandit? Wow, they did not put quite as much into them then, not that they had any fancy computers or anything. :yikes :snore


http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqvLKdiVjqc

[DavidTO]

David,

Do you think you could whip out revised trailer for Smokey and the Bandit? Wow, they did not put quite as much into them then, not that they had any fancy computers or anything. :yikes :snore


http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqvLKdiVjqc


Things have changed, eh?