After watching this film, I found myself in a position I had never been in before. I could neither express my amazement in words, nor could I contain it. Nothing I can say can encompass my feelings about this film, so I'll settle for paraphasing the Comic Book Guy:
Best. Cinematography. Ever.
You have to see this film in High Definition to truly appreciate and enjoy this astonishing brickfilm. Presented in beautiful wide screen, The Crucible Trailer is a stand-alone trailer for a brickfilm remake of the play by the same name. Every shot is a beauty to look at. Four in particular stand out for me: The wide shot of the village with clouds passing by overhead, the closer shot of the buildings with the glowing golden window, the fog in the forest, and the gallows set against a bone-white sky.
What is even more amazing is that this film was created with no digital effects. The clouds in the opening shot were achieved by using self-lit backdrops (filming action in front of a spare LCD monitor) and the fog in the forest is actually soap smeared on a piece of plexiglass. This film is the best example where classic film making and stop-motion techniques trump glitzy digital effects with CGI spaceships, digitally-inserted buildings, digital facial animation and random lightning effects.
Nikolas's haunting score perfectly compliments the film, and sends my neck hairs a-quiver. The voice acting is extremely well-done, some of the best I've heard in brickfilms. I am suspicious this isdue to Nikolas' wise choice to use local actors instead of acquiring voice actors over in the Internet (with the exception of Brickfilms.com member Smeagol, who delivers a brilliant performance as Danforth). The audio quality of the actors suffers a little from muffling and audio pops, but these errors pale in significance when presently alongside the film's assets.
I think it is not unrealistic to say that this film could be the beginning of a new era of brickfilms: brickfilms that rise beyond mere stop-motion animations of little plastic toys and transcend to a cinematic experience worthy of theatrical release and international critical acclaim.
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