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Topic: Trailer - Toy Soldier

Toy Soldier

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Toy Soldier is a film about a terminally ill boy who has one last wish. With the goal to bring awareness to cancer. The film stars many celebrities! Bradley Gregg (Stand By Me, Indiana Jones, Nightmare on Elm Street), Michele Knotz (Pokemon), Troy Glass (Masterchef Jr.) and more! It's also on IMDb!

Teaser Trailer for Toy Soldier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9klvKY1FM
Starring numerous celebrities and proceeds going towards charity
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Wow, this seems like a rather large-scale project. While the trailer is a teaser, I find it very cinematic and captivating. I'll be sure to check out the full film when it is completed.

Best of luck in completing the film!

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Hey Choyce97,

This looks very interesting, although short I firnly say I just want to see more. While this very much feels like a teaser I would have hoped to see a bit more of the animation. None the less the words spoken are very touching telling of an emotional story that is about to unfold.

I wish you best of luck with this, and look forward to seeing the finished film!

Sincerely,
Divine.

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Willow Tree wrote:

Wow, this seems like a rather large-scale project. While the trailer is a teaser, I find it very cinematic and captivating. I'll be sure to check out the full film when it is completed.

Best of luck in completing the film!

Divine wrote:

Hey Choyce97,
This looks very interesting, although short I firnly say I just want to see more. While this very much feels like a teaser I would have hoped to see a bit more of the animation. None the less the words spoken are very touching telling of an emotional story that is about to unfold.
I wish you best of luck with this, and look forward to seeing the finished film!
Sincerely,
Divine.

Thank you both! It's my last film while a senior in high school. After previous success, a lot of pressure was on me to outdo all of my films. I was on the news for this. I have a copy of the full version (at the moment this is posted, it's just a picture) http://www.wgme.com/news/features/top-s … SRigfnF-O3

Teaser Trailer for Toy Soldier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9klvKY1FM
Starring numerous celebrities and proceeds going towards charity
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The soundscape is very nice, and gives it a more professional feel than many brickfilms. Did you get a sound designer, do it all yourself? Or just find sound effects? Because it's sounds real nice. The voice actor seemed good as well. I look forward to seeing the final product!

The animation though, seemed a little bit rough, which could be fixed by smoothing up your animation by using techniques like easing in and out. The framing could also have been shifted so that the object would be centered in the middle of the screen. There is also a lot of dead space with nothing in it. You could probably fix this by adding more objects, or zooming in the camera so that the (scanner?) will fit in most of the frame.

But all in all this looks pretty cool, and I look forward to seeing what you got.

Keep it up Choyce!

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Harborlight wrote:

The soundscape is very nice, and gives it a more professional feel than many brickfilms. Did you get a sound designer, do it all yourself? Or just find sound effects? Because it's sounds real nice. The voice actor seemed good as well. I look forward to seeing the final product!

The animation though, seemed a little bit rough, which could be fixed by smoothing up your animation by using techniques like easing in and out. The framing could also have been shifted so that the object would be centered in the middle of the screen. There is also a lot of dead space with nothing in it. You could probably fix this by adding more objects, or zooming in the camera so that the (scanner?) will fit in most of the frame.

But all in all this looks pretty cool, and I look forward to seeing what you got.

Keep it up Choyce!

Thank you Harborlight! I did all the sound myself. I used a whole bunch of royalty free sounds and recorded some of my own to get this. The voice actor doing the voice over was Michele Knotz. She's mostly known for playing Jessie in Pokemon!
Thanks for the constructive criticism! mini/smile I chose to have a lot of dead space to have the viewer focus on the machine and show how the young boy is in such a large machine in a much larger room. Definitely will take your tips and see how I can work with it mini/smile Hope you'll be watching when I release it this May!

Teaser Trailer for Toy Soldier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9klvKY1FM
Starring numerous celebrities and proceeds going towards charity
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Oh wow. How do you get voice actors like that? Do you pay them? Because that's pretty impressive for a brickfilm.

"Bless you for making this." -Sloth 2016 * on "Chicken Shaped Lighthouse Attacks Police"
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Ephesians 4:29 -"Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers."
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Harborlight wrote:

Oh wow. How do you get voice actors like that? Do you pay them? Because that's pretty impressive for a brickfilm.

I search who their manager is or what talent agency they reside at. Or I go right to the actor/actress and ask them! Sadly because my film is a small, independent, student and non-union film many actors have had to turn roles down because of SAG/AFTRA rules.

Some are paid. Some aren't. Especially with this film and the proceeds going towards charity, many want to help keep the budget unused by doing it for free!

Teaser Trailer for Toy Soldier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9klvKY1FM
Starring numerous celebrities and proceeds going towards charity