Your Fic's Trailer, ...because they aren't just for movies! Options

[GinnyAuror00]

All right...I think I saw this at the Sugar Quill, but anyway, it's a good idea....

Do you have a fic that A) you are writing, or B) you are thinking about writing? Post a mini trailer here of it! All right :: I'm working on mine....but it would be great to see some people's ideas! ::looks around for someone who agrees with her:: right?

Okay, post as soon as you can, or at least post that you'll post one, or think about posting one, and you are working on it....this could really turn out to be loads of fun...so please jump right in!

-Ginny, who likes starting new topics because her brain is overfilling with ideas

[GinnyAuror00]

All right, I see I'm going to be the first...

For, my story,which is WIP, Making Magic [WORKING TITLE ONLY!]

KEY:  Bold=On screen words
Italics=what is happening

It begins
A small boy of nine runs around his room, trying to shove all his possessions into a small sack.  Then he freezes, and ages.  An old man now stands in a circular office, full of windows, his back to us.  He turns around and says “We must fix this…before it is too late.  I fear we are running out of  time.”
With magic
“You know why you are here?” The girl nodded, with tears in her eyes.  “I am magic, sir.”
Four friends will meet
“Hi!” called a black haired girl from the bed next door.  “I’ve been wondering how long it would take you to wake up!”
~scene switch~
“I c-can’t help it.  Godric, Salazar, Rowena…you understand, right?”
“Yes,” Godric replied darkly, “as it has been happening to all of us.”
And bond for a lifetime
“We are brothers, sisters.  We are family,” Salazar said firmly, “No one will tear us apart.”  The others nodded fervently.
Their strength shall be tested
“I’d expect you to take it that way,” a dark figure snarled.  “You are, after all, a-a-a- mudblood.”  Gasps
Again and again
“How dare he!” cried Rowena.  “Doesn’t he understand?”
~scene switch~
“I thought that the Houses would stop this rivalry, not encourage it!”
“Don’t fool yourself.  We all knew that this would happen.”
“No we didn’t!  Godric, this is exactly what I mean!”
~scene switch~
“GRYFFINDOR!”  Godric nodded slightly, and Salazar balled his hands into fists under the staff table.
~scene switch~
“That is the final straw!”
Until…
Godric sobs furiously into his hands.  “He’s gone,” he said in a broken, hollow voice, “and it’s all my fault.”

They are
‘Brilliant!  It will be the greatest school ever built!”
The Founders
“AVADA KEDAVRA!” one lone voice shouts over the din.

Coming soon!

-Ginny

PS: Come on....post, whatever...just give others an idea of your projects. It really is fun! I'll try and work on another one for mine, if no one else posts ::pout::

PPS: Because, as you might notice, there are no references to chronology....this is on purpose...Cheers!

EDITED because I left out a comma!

[GinnyAuror00]

Everyone: I feel really stupid talking to myself...I'm working on another trailer...Come on ferrets...just try it! It can get really great...Anyhow...what can it hurt?!?!

EDITED to say that you could help me imrove my trailer, if you don't have one of your own.

-Ginny, who is so sick of talking to herself

[ronsmyman]

So, is the trailer we post here just a script and a description of what a live action trailer of our HP fanfic would looklike? I don't have much in the way of fanfiction outside of PF, could I do a trailer or an advertisement for a contest I started or a part I play in one of the stories on here?

[GinnyAuror00]

So, is the trailer we post here just a script and a description of what a live action trailer of our HP fanfic would looklike?
Yes
I don't have much in the way of fanfiction outside of PF, could I do a trailer or an advertisement for a contest I started or a part I play in one of the stories on here? Contest...um allright. Part you play....great! That's fine! Just explain a bit of background before pasting it! Kudos to being the first to reply to my insane rambles!
-Ginny

[zymurgy]

The trailor for my fic at SS, which isn't realy a continuus fic, but rather a motly pile of dares that I accepted and did:

*Spooky entrance music*
The Words: "THE SAGGA OF THE HOGWARTS PINEAPPLE" fill the screan.
Voice: It's ridiculous!
*We see Snape, at the age of about 14, running out of the great hall, clutching a pineapple to his chest, chased by the entire Hogwarts staff*
Voice: It's profound!
*We see Harvey, (The man in the moon) stabb a huge knife into the the moon itself (which is made of spagetti)*
Voice: It's adventure!
*We see Dementors in pink tights pursuing Born2Mugglz*
*We see age 30 Snape, dressed as a pirate, pursude by teanaged marauders (but not James) and the trio*
*We see a great and very evil sack race*
*We see underwear gnomes knicking people's underwear*
*We see the SlashMonster bop Zabini and Draco on the head*
Voice: It's stimulating!
*Snape drinks coffe*
Voice: It's romantic!
*Snape sweaps Trelawney into a hug*
Voice: It's a singing and dancing smash!
*We see all of hogwarts doing the hokey pokey*
*We see Harry disguised as Draco serenading an unknown figure*
*We see Lucious singing to Hermione*
Voice: It's EVIL!
*We see Voldemort cackle*
*We see a evil bowl of mustard*
*We see the Great and Terrible Zymurgy, along with Cassirin and Lotus in the midst of a very evil argument*
*We see a very threatening sock*
Voice: It'll never be over! The dares will keep coming! It's infinate!
The Carmina Burana Blares.
*We see lots of thuner and lightning*
*Blackout*
*The words: "Already Up at a Sight Near You" fill the screan*

[GinnyAuror00]

Great! ::laughs uncontrollably:: Kudos to being the first trailer poster besides me!
-Ginny

[born2mugglz]

Hehe! Zy that was brilliant! (We are allowed to just comment on these, right?) I don't have a fic to advertise here yet. I would, but I don't like the one I have at SS because I'm sick of writing about Harry(lol). I want to start a new one so I'm brainstorming right now. I'll post one as soon as I know what I'm writing! But both were excellent trailers! I can't wait for more!

[evlpez]

Having read quite a bit of the Saga of the Hogwarts Pineapple, I found this really amusing, and I'm totally honored to see some elements of the dares I gave the EEFFD in Zym's Trailer.

Thanks, Zym!

[agrippa]

A trailer for the Journey to Hogwarts Fic:

*Black screen with swirly grey mist*
*Each title flies in individually from the background, pauses, and then continues forward off the screen*
COMING WHEN WE GET AROUND TO IT...
*James on the train, staring out the window*
THE NEXT GENERATION
*Promethus flies out of James' hand in the owlry*
JAMES
*James in the sorting hat*
SERENA
*Serena in the great hall, chatting*
PHILIP
*Giving Lockhart a hard time in charms*
CHARLIE
*On his broomstick*
(This titles start going by much faster)
FREDDY
*Sneaking around a corner*
LILY
*In the common room, bewitching a fish to slap people in the face*
FIONA
*Looking haughty*
FINLEY
*Polishing his prefect badge*
(The titles get even faster)
MCGONNAGAL
*Making the annual welcome speech*
KRUM
*Lecturing in Potions*
NEVILLE
*Feeding Mimbletonia*
LUNA
*Reading the Quibbler upside down*
(The titles begin to move so fast we can't even see the pictures)
ATHOL
CLAUDE
POLLUX
AND
(the titles grind to a screeching halt)
A DURSLEY?!?
*Peppy theme music kicks in*
*We see James and Philip running down a hall*
Voice over: A new school year...
*Zoom in through the window of the astronomy tower where Alison Wiles is teaching*
VO: A new mystery...
*Duke threatens James and Philip and Serena outside of Herbologoy*
VO: A new chapter...
*Wide shot of Great Hall at Halloween Feast*
VO: Even we don't know what happens next.
*Back to black as title slams in from audience side*
JOURNEY TO HOGWARTS
The journey continues... and continues....
*cut to credits screen*

James Potter - Serena Weasley - Philip MacKenzie
JOURNEY TO HOGWARTS
a Project Ferret Production
Produced by Evlpez - Written by Lotsa Ferrets
Based unbelievably loosely on a novel we wish that JK Rowling wrote
Music by John Williams (no, not the John Williams, another one)

*cut back to black screen with grey mist*
COMING SOON... OR SOMETIME

[McGonagall's Cat]

COMING WHEN WE GET AROUND TO IT...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

James Potter - Serena Weasley - Philip MacKenzie
JOURNEY TO HOGWARTS
a Project Ferret Production
Produced by Evlpez - Written by Lotsa Ferrets
Based unbelievably loosely on a novel we wish that JK Rowling wrote
Music by John Williams (no, not the John Williams, another one)


*cut back to black screen with grey mist*
COMING SOON... OR SOMETIME

SO good! Yea Agrippa!!!!


:music:

[evlpez]

Oh my gosh that's funny!! You should win a prize for that, Agrippa!

[GinnyAuror00]

OMG! That was great!

[Merman]

that was really good Zymurgy I liked it Snape with a pinapple
and agrippa that was great

[GinnyAuror00]

All right everyone…this is the second official MM [yes…as I said, only the working title] trailer. Enjoy!

When magic runs wild
“I c-can’t help it.  Godric, Salazar, Rowena…you understand, right?”
“Yes,” Godric replied darkly, “as it has been happening to all of us.”
And it cannot be controlled
“If we don’t do something soon, one of them will do something irreversible.  We must fix this, before it is too late…we are running out of time” an old man said, standing in his brightly lit office, staring at the viewers.
When bonds are threatened
“I thought that the Houses would stop this rivalry, not encourage it!”
“Don’t fool yourself.  We all knew that this would happen.”
“No we didn’t!  Godric, this is exactly what I mean!  We pretend to have seen some fault in one another long ago—where one didn’t exist!  If we don’t unite, Hogwarts will fall.”
~scene switch~
“Our Hogwarts is in danger
From external, deadly foes”
~scene switch~
“We are brothers, sisters.  We are family,” Salazar said firmly, “No one will tear us apart.”  The others nodded fervently.
“Not even blood ties.” muttered Salazar under his breath, but the other three heard it anyway.
“We do have a blood tie!”  Godric pulled out a small dagger from his pocket, and pricked himself.  He passed the dagger to Rowena, who did the same.  When all had drops of blood gathering at the tip of their finger, they silently rubbed them against each other.
A tear drop fell onto the floor.  No one needed to look up, they already knew whose it was.
~scene switch~
“And we must unite within it
Or we’ll crumple from within”
~scene switch~
“Purity of blood is crucial Gryffindor!”
Godric wheeled about, and showed Salazar his cut finger.  “You think?” he said coldly.
An answer must be found
“It must work- it must!”
~scene switch~
“That is the final straw!”
It will not be perfect
“It weakens him.  I see it.”
~scene switch~
Godric sobs furiously into his hands.  “He’s gone,” he said in a broken, hollow voice, “and it’s all my fault.”Yet life must go on.
“I have told you, I have warned you
Let the Sorting now begin”

Look to the Founders

-Gin