Guild Wars 2

As a familiarisation exercise in getting to grips with a new video editor, I put together clips from existing Arenanet GW2 trailers to create a trailer of my own.

Let me know what you think
Fan-made GW2 Trailer Video

Within Temptation
Really nice vid, but in my opinion it’s more of a music video than a trailer.

Tips for next time if you want to aim to make a trailer:
- Aim for it to be under 1.5minutes. Think about all those trailers on TV, what would it be like if they were all 5 minutes long?
- Choose some more instumental music. Some good examples of this are produced by Audiomachine and Two Steps from Hell, they both professionally make trailer music.
- Show some ingame footage. Most of that video is cinematics which, while amazingly awesome, don’t entirely show off what the actual game looks like. Vistas could be good though as they show off the ingame graphics while being cinematic. Still include cinematics, but that shouldn’t be the majority of the video.

Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing what you make next.

Yeah, on hindsight maybe labeling it as a trailer video was an error on my part. I will agree that it probably does better resemble a music video. With that in mind I will adjust the title of the topic to better represent the nature of the video

As I mentioned in the original post it was mainly a familiarisation exercise to get to grips with a new video editor, so gathering self-made ingame footage wasn’t really as important as using existing clips and arranging them. I do see what you mean though.

I’d always intended it to be a kind of response to another video that was made for another game using the same band and song. That game is sadly no longer active, (I say sadly as I feel that it was probably the only one out there at the time that could match the feel and atmosphere generated in Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2.) That game being Chronicles of Spellborn. (look up the video on Youtube, it’s still out there.)
If you compare the two you will hopefully see what I was aiming to do.

Thank you for the input though, I will certainly take it on board. As it happens I do have something in mind for my next project which I’ll be starting just as soon as the character I intend to use is of an appropriate level.

Edit: Changed Topic title from ‘[Video] Fan-made GW2 Trailer Video’ to’ [Video] Fan-made GW2 Video’