On January 12, 2009 in Washington DC, YouTube hosted an event: “Broadcasting the World: The New Ecosystem for News Online.” The panel (”Reeling Them In: Building an Audience for News Video”) featured:
* Chris Cillizza, Journalist, The Washington Post
* Jim Brady, Executive Editor of WashingtonPost.com
* Ann Derry, The New York Times’s Editorial Director of Video and Television,
* Refet Kaplan, Managing Director, Fox News
* Lila King, Director of CNN iReport
* Jon Sawyer, Executive Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Online video has presented a new frontier in the future of news. It’s easier than ever to use video to tell stories; even News organizations that traditionally published in text are adding substantial video capacity to their staffs. Traditional media organizations have started arming their reporters with video cameras, and today’s journalists are expected not only to research and write, but to blog and shoot video for rich multimedia packages. Yet the market for video is so saturated – how do you rise above the chatter, for example, of the 13 hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube every minute?

This panel discusses how news outlets are using video to enhance their content offerings and reach new markets.

Duration : 1:11:20

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***THIS IS A FAN MADE TRAILER***
This is my vision for a Green Lantern movie with Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan. He won’t be Hal for real, but all the more reason for a fan trailer!
http://splashpage.mTV.com/2009/08/05/nathan-fillion-cant-think-of-anyone-better-than-ryan-reynolds-for-green-lantern-movie/#more-19147

For the record, I did this purely for fun, with NO intention of “fooling” anyone or covering the fact that I used clips from other Movies.
The whole point of it for me was to imagine what it would be like to see a great Green Lantern movie.

Shots I adapted from the following movies, tv shows, and trailers:
Planet of the Apes
Serenity Trailer
Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Stardust Trailer
The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring
Firefly
Dragonball Evolution Trailer
Galaxy Quest
The Fountain Trailer
Superman Returns Trailer
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Smallville
Justice League TAS
GI Joe Trailer
Contact
Star Trek Enterprise
Star Wars Episode III
The Mutant Chronicles Trailer
Iron Man
Star Trek Trailer
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Cutscene
The Chronicles of Riddick
Kamen Rider
Bedtime Stories
MIB 2
Escape from Witch Mountain Trailer
The Matrix Revolutions
The Chronicles of Narnia – Prince Caspian
White Noise 2

Special Thanks to Mike Afford for a few brief clips from his Fan Trailer including the final logo:
http://www.mikeafford.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIyx09htG8U

I used Adobe After Effects and Photoshop to manipulate the original clips, and used Final Cut Pro to edit it all together.

I would like to give major credit to Andrew Kramer from
http://www.videocopilot.net, who (via tutorials) taught me everything I know in After Effects and I would not have been able to do most of this without that. I’m more of an editor than an effects guy, so thanks Andrew!

Also, thanks to WormyT for the inspiration to do this again!

Zbrush Forum Artists: Gnom, rinals, BladeFlush & Muyu for character model bases (for Tomar-Re & Galius Zed) Logo design by Lepios.

Voice Audio clips from Superman: TAS, Justice League TAS, The Batman, Battle for Terra Trailer, Justice League: The New Frontier, and The Lord of the Rings.

The music is “Forces of Destiny” and “Freedom Fighters” by Two Steps from Hell.
You may recognize “Freedom Fighters” from the the recent “Star Trek” trailer.

This is an independent, non-profit, artistic expression created purely for fun and is in no way connected to, or endorsed by Warner Bros. or DC Comics.

Duration : 0:2:39

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He wiped the smirk off their faces.

Duration : 0:8:37

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