X-Men 2
(2003)
John's Thoughts
August 22, 2002
Well, for most long-haul projects I would keep a little update log of the
goings-ons of the production, but then I realized that for this film, even
the most insignificant tidbit about my day would suddenly be all over the
internet and then blown up into goodness knows what. And then I'd be in deep
dog doo doo. So, the memoirs will have to wait until after the film is out!
What I can say is that Vancouver is a beautiful city, of which I wish I
could see more of. I tend to be in a dark room all day making sense of new
footage as it comes in. Speaking of which, we'd only been shooting a couple
weeks when Bryan asked me to create a trailer for the film to present at a
comic book convention called Comicon. Even though we didn't have much
footage, I tried to design a trailer/teaser that could maximize what we had.
Musically I didn't want the baggage of some other film to taint the trailer, so I edited together a version of Holst's THE PLANETS to be the mystery and then driving force behind it. My score for the film will never be written or recorded in time to be on any trailers, so this kind of keeps it more pure in a way. It was Bryan's suggestion to base the trailer on the mansion attack, since that was alot of what we shot, and then I took it from there and went wild. I also love trailers that don't depend on cheesy narration, so I just used lines from the film to infer story points. Most the classic and most famous trailers of the past don't rely on narration, but let the footage and editing drive the piece. By using just enough dialog lines from the film, it really does create even more of a tease and enticement. So, that's the update of sorts for now, probably until I'm asked to do another trailer. UGH!