the herminator

May 1, 2005

the herminator trailer made it's debut in the rhcbc esc service this morning. i cannot describe how excited i was for it, but i know steve can relate with me. we've been planning it for a while and i was very pleased with how it turned out. all throughout the showing, it was all smiles for me. the congregation actually cheered at the end of it, when the last title sequences were displayed. that was awesome! there was so much excitement for his return.

what am i talking about you ask? our pastor, herman chow, has been on break for eight months now. next sunday (may 8th) will be the first time he comes back to preach. my friend, steve, thought it would be jokes if we made a movie trailer for his return. being a person who quite enjoys jokes, i loved the idea and decided that we had to do it. one time, during a sermon, herman referred to himself as "the herminator." now, i don't exactly remember why he did that, but it was one of those things that you simply do not forget; the trailer was based off of that.

my good friend mr. steve choi directed the whole thing. he came up with the storyboards and the sequencing of the trailer (what would be shown when). i produced it. i took his ideas and made it a reality, deciding camera angles and shooting the video, choosing music (the second song was a joint effort), pacing of the video, adding the "man" voice (that's me by the way—i said it in my absolute lowest voice possible and then used garageband 2 to modulate the sound to make it lower) and doing the titles.

so without further adu, here is the trailer in two sizes:

The Herminator - Small Trailer (5 MB)
The Herminator - Large Trailer (55 MB)

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