Grave of the Fireflies/Hotaru no Haka Recut

This was an assignment for storyboarding class - to recut a trailer for a movie of our choice. The goal of this assignment was to make a trailer for an opposite genere. For example cutting "The Shining" (a horror movie) as if it were a comedy. Thus I cut this so that it seemed like a feel good story rather than a movie depicting the aftermath of war.




It's my first time doing anything of this sort and let me tell you... it's very laborious!

I'm uploading it just in case I some how don't end up giving the file on CD to the teacher.

The divx codec compression seems to butcher some of the scenes... maybe using a 15 year old video tape as the source was not such a good idea (my aunt sent me the tape of this movie from Japan when it first aired on TV)...

Anyway....

Hotaru no Haka (A.K.A Grave of the Fireflies)
BG music is by Hans Zimmer (guy who compsed music for movies such as Lion King, Gladiator).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Grave
• of
• Fireflies
• Hotaru
• no
• Haka
• Ghibli

[alexmckalexmck]

Once you have seen the film, this trailer seems very odd and backwards...but you've done a really really good job on it here.

[chibizaki]

Thanks. Yeah I was trying to make it progress backwards as well but it was hard to do it consistently. Good observation. :D

[wearestellar]

Nice job,I like that you made it seem like a happy little tale.rather then the tragic movie it is.

[chibizaki]

Thanks. I hope my teacher had the same reaction because that's what the assignment goal was: to produce the opposite effect. :D

[paperbullet1945]

Hah! This is so backwards! (I know it's a storyboarding assignment) I bet if I showed this to someone I could convince them to watch it and they'd be totally surprised!

[chibizaki]

Yeah, it could potentially catch them off guard but I'm sure the crappy editing on my part will give it away that it's not really an official trailer. XD

[kaizokupanda]

Loved the movie... It's so sad, your cut was very sweet. It's nice to see Seita and Setsuko in a happy movie, they deserve it. T_T

[uberGeeKs3]

dat was a very sad movie.

[RyuuYareYare]

>,> urr okay.

[frrrayyman]

dude this movie made me cry even got depressed and nice amv check out mine k!! peace!!

[chibizaki]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :D

The music I used for this is composed by Hans Zimmer. The title is "You're So Cool" (I'm not 100% sure that's the real title because I got the song off of a friend).

[chibizaki]

Thank you. Yes I agree that the author deserves some mad respect. I too cried as well when I first saw this film more than 15 years ago.