So, I'm thinking of making a trailer for an adaptation of Hotline Miami (not a full film, just a trailer to shop around), and I'm wanting to find trailers and films/shorts that would sort of work with the mood.
Ones I've seen that really nail what I'm going for:
>https://youtu.be/YqAeVosG4zI
>https://youtu.be/5gfMLu9EPWY
>https://youtu.be/0DzNCWbzZOo
What else would you recommend?
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good luck, and make sure to post again if you end up doing it
this trailer for OGF is probably more of the tone you want to go for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bi9LjRQgh8
Cobra
The Raid
Drive
>>71681205
Oh of course.
Also, a stylistic thing I'm thinking of doing is never showing Jacket's actual face. Always show him either in silhouette, in the mask, behind the head, or close-ups on his eyes.
>>71681302
that almost feels like a given
>>71681382
You'd be surprised.
Most of the shorts I've seen doing the same thing show his face outright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgXM7ivgYTo
>>71681466
well don't make the same mistake
also i'd advise against taking any inspiration from other attempts at the same thing
look at the work that inspired the creators of HM at try to draw the same inspiration that they did
David Lynch, Nicolas Winding Refn, Walter Hill, etc
>>71681481
Wow, this actually references "Drive" quite openly.
>>71681481
I've been looking for this one, thanks.
>>71681627
yeah, no kidding
didn't the developers directly cite Drive as an inspiration?
>>71681716
They give a special thanks to Nicolas Winding Refn in the game's credits.
>>71681716
Of course. I was still kinda surprised. I mean the four-note motif of the score is even sorta reminiscent of the syncopated motif that "Nightcall" is based on.
>>71681716
Yeah, Drive was a direct inspiration.
I mean some people took this to a very literal level, I saw a short (that I can't find) that copied the Nightcall opening from Drive shot for shot.
>>71681833
Oh, just noticed that it was actually the transition-screen music from the game itself...
>>71681833
That ending theme, the one you get after you win a chapter, side by side works perfectly with Nightcall.
>>71681517
Yeah yeah.
I'm really wanting to ape Refn's style, but someone I think would be fun to sort of imitate, to work well with this, would be Robert Rodriguez.
Dunno who you'd shop it around to.
The people that made the game own the rights and you'd have to work with them to get a movie made if a studio were to want to pick it up.
>>71682756
Yeah, that's probably true.
I still wanna do it, though. Just to prove to myself that I can.
