X-Men: The Live-Action Series

The assignment

This took me way longer to do than I thought it would. I have been hyperfixated on this show for months, so of course I wanted to do something with it. At first, I was going to use my own arrangement of the X-Men: The Animated Series theme song, but I couldn’t figure out a way to play it that would sound halfway-decent. Instead, I used this arrangement, which is significantly longer, meaning I needed more shots. All the visuals either came from the existing X-Men movies, or this fan-made film. The voice lines did not come from the movies; the bigot at the beginning is a line from the original show, the crowd is me and my friend’s voices that I duplicated and messed with the timing and pitch to make it sound like a crowd, and the Patrick Stewart-sounding line is Patrick Stewart. At first, I was going to leave in more sound effects and voice lines than I did, but I found it difficult to get rid of the score underneath the voices and gave up. It’s a project for another day.

Coming Soon: Something That Already Exists

Movie studios seem to be really into using characters and stories they already made, huh? Between remakes, reboots, and the popularity of adapting media from one form to another, it feels like no one has any original ideas. Embrace it! Your assignment is to make a movie trailer for a character or movie that already exists, as if it was going to be remade in live-action. Who would you cast as the lead? Or as the villain? Scour the internet and find clips where they look or sound like those characters, then combine them into a trailer! (If you choose a movie that’s already been remade in live-action, try to avoid using clips from that version. It’s time to make your own!