Premiere & the Trailer - Initial Ideas

I have to produce a 60 second trailer for my game, Doom Vs Duke Nukem. I expect that my trailer will feature either videos from the existing games or possibly a section of the Doom film.

There is a 9 to 10 minute section of the extended version of the film where it is shot from a first person perspective. Using bits of that I could cut bits of that together and display it as in-game footage. The downsides to this are that Duke will not feature at all or it will be incredibly jarring to go from game footage to film footage and back again.  Whilst I think this could look really good with some overlaid writing at various points I will basically have to mostly  leave Duke out of it which I don’t think I can do in the trailer.

For this reason I will probably look at doing some stuff with game footage, either captured by myself or possibly got from other sources. Especially if somebody out there has managed to mod duke into the Doom engine or vice versa that would make things easier for me. 

If not I will probably edit some clips from both games together and maybe look to not show the HUD for either. I think there is an option to turn it off in the games so if necessary I can take some footage myself using FRAPS with these turned off.  Both games have had stand alone new 3D engines developed for them to make the game environments into true 3D from the pseudo 3D when they were both released. These have the added benefit of being able to run these games using more up to date resolutions like 1920 x 1080 and utilising GPU effects such as anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing to improve textures and remove jagged edges. These will “update” the look of the games to make them more modern.

I have both games on the newer engines so I can take some footage using FRAPS (a screen capture tool)

http://www.fraps.com/

and then import that into Premiere to edit. 

I will then add some onscreen effects such as explosions with writing coming out to emphasise the game features and round off with a few Duke one liners interspersed throughout. 

I think that will work ok and should demonstrate the “game” to prospective buyers.