Hellooo everyone! Psychoticmassmurderer is back! and she promises to write trailers for Lirael and Abhorsen too! but first, in reply to everyone's question,
i honestly don't know who i'd get to play the characters. i do know that i want the film to be mostly in blacks and blues, kind of like the "Corpse Bride" except for the parts when Sabriel is ignorant of the Old Kingdom and the part in Belisaere.
As for Kerrigor's nonappearance in the previous trailer, I had him in at first, but i edited him out cuz otherwise the trailer would be longer than it already was.
I would prefer the film to be with real people, with lots of CGIs.
i was rereading the Sabriel one and just realized that i have lots of errors in it, and i'm missing parts that i thought i put in. i'll re-edit it andd post it back up as soon as i find time. stupid school computers...grr...
The following is a rough outline of what i'm going to do for the Lirael trailer. I have decided to keep the Voice and the black screens.
EDITED!
Soft music plays, played on panpipes and flute and tinwhistle.
Opens with Lirael listening to the speaker-person (shot is from behind the Clayr person so that you can see Lirael looking at her)
"The gift of the Sight has awakened in our sister... "
Scene focuses on close up of Lirael. Her face is sheeted by her hair, and we can only see the lower half of her profile. She is talking.
Lirael (whispering to herself, but we can hear it on screen too): It has to be me. It has to be me. It's my 14th birthday.
"Anniselle!" Screen goes to Lirael, slowly zooming, who just sits there, then turns away and screen darkens to black as the sounds of the procession going away die away.
Voice: Lirael is alone, an outsider in her family...
Next scene shows kind of a Lord-of-the-Rings-influenced shot of the mountain (like showing Caradhas (i.e. the spinning round-up-the-mountain kind of shot)) until it's like an eagle's-eye view of her about to throw herself off the Paperwing launching pad. Screen zooms back to show her portrait-style, as she turns her head and sees two Paperwings headed towards her. She hides.
Edited parts of her talk with Sanar and Ryelle, but the most clear thing said will be her thing about going to the library.
Voice: Until she awakens the Dog...
Scene shows her awakening the Dog. I think Garth Nix covered that quite well, don't you?
Dog: "Hello. I'm the Disreputable Dog. Or Disreputable Bitch if you want to be technical. Let's go for a walk!"
Voice: Little does she know that something else has been awakened...
Scene shows Hedge viewing his "workers" with Nick. What you see as a shallow hole at first, cuz you're looking at it from the side, from Nick and Hedge's POV with them in front of the camera, but camera keeps going forward, and it soon proves itself to be a ginormous hole and lightning strikes it... multiple times.
Music, the pounding kind with lots of fortissississimos, etc. and sforzandos and loud, one beat solos from the drums and discordant chords that last for an eighth note from the strings, etc. begins, softly at first, although you can hear the drums clearly. Melody is frenezied and held by the flute, tinwhistle, and panpipes.
Voice: Now she, Dog, and a prince must join forces to stop the menacing evil before it's too late.
Scene shows her meeting Prince Sameth. And the little conversation she and Sam have while Dog and Mogget have a show down in the background.
Sam: "We have to get to the House."
Voice: And Lirael must come to terms with her own awakening powers and her mysterious past.
Scene shows her in the river looking into the past with the Dark Mirror, then being startled by the Dead revenant.
Scenes flash by, each separated by the strings and woodwind chord and drum beat: Lirael killing the Stilkin, Sam battling with the Dead, Lirael and that fire path thing in the crypt, Nick going to Hedge instead of Sam and being thrown into the wall, Sam's race from the Dead, the battle with Chlorr, and finding the House. House shot is from the river—it rises up above/through the mist of the waterfall. Ends with a solo between violin and panpipes; mostly panpipes with violin harmonizing.
Screen turns black, and "Lirael" comes onto screen in ghostly silvery letters with a different Charter Mark as the name "Lirael" is spoken by the voice.
Mogget: Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fine day on the river.
Last dischordant-yet-not chord and the screen turns to black, with release date info, etc.