Process

I started by analyzing the original trailer, watching it over and over again to get a sense of what scenes I needed. I then went to Netflix to find these scenes. I remembered some episodes that had more applicable scenes (such as Michael hitting Meredith with his car, Dwight firing the bazooka, etc.), so some material was really easy to find. The hardest problem was finding enough scenes to match the many intense fighting scenes in the original trailer, since there aren’t that many plane crashes or gunfire in The Office. I ended up replacing many large-scale violence with smaller scenes of general chaos from The Office.

I also needed to most effectively present the video during class. I wanted to highlight the many similarities between my trailer and the original, since I kept my project relatively authentic to the official video. I originally was thinking about showing the video on two different computer monitors, one showing the original and one showing the edited version. However, since both versions already had a cinematic widescreen ratio, I decided to put the two videos in one, the original on top and my edited one below, and they would play together at once.