Fan-made T4 Teaser!

When Darkness Falls

Down On Man

All There Is Left

Is Hope  

Terminator Fan Maurice Huijs (aka HopeOfTheFuture), who is a very good friend of ours, has something he wants you to see!

Maurice is an avid Terminator fan. He has his own website devoted to the movies (Terminator: Hope Of The Future), he works at one of the best Terminator info sites on the net (TerminatorFiles.com), and he also likes to spend his spare time writing and cutting his own fan scripts!

Not only has Maurice written his own T4 fan-script and screenplay, he's also started to make promotional material for it!

After creating a Terminator 3 trailer some time ago, Maurice has been back in the editing room again, and has created a fantastic T4: Hope Of The Future teaser for us all to see!
Here's what Maurice had to say about it:

"With the creation of the storyboard sequences for my Terminator 4 Trailer, I came up with a funny idea for a Terminator 4 Teaser, and finally made it.

With my fanmade T4 teaser, I tried to create an emotional feeling about the dramatic future and as John being a leader in a world he desperately tried to prevent.

Most teasers run about 1:10 , just like my own. I know this is short, but a teaser is different to an actual trailer itself.

Teaser trailers are typically released several months to a year before the advent of a film. Typically, they contain few (if any) scenes from the movie, and rarely are there any special effects. The purpose of a teaser is to prime the audience for what's coming -- to make them aware that a particular title is on its way. Because the whole point of it is to build name recognition and create a sense of expectancy, and only the biggest or most anticipated movies are given this treatment.

Then there's the "regular" trailer , which can be anything from an anticipation-builder to a virtual synopsis of the entire film. These trailers, which typically arrive in theatres anywhere from a couple of months to a week before the movie opens, are filled with scenes and special effects from the finished (or near finished) product.

I followed the general things that we see with most teasers nowadays, and thus I didn't use much footage. The duration is also short and the teaser doesn't give away much, but builds up the tension (with the tune). All this is to tease the audience and make them interested in the movie.

I tried to create a little bit of a "shock" effect when the Terminator drums play. I hope it worked. I know some people will find it short, but I have a feeling that because it's short, it teases the viewer(s) more. The part John on the destroyed Aerial Hunter-Killer seems (too) short for some people, but I think it's better this way to achieve a better influence.

I have plans to make another Terminator 3 Trailer and a Terminator 4 Trailer . The T4 Trailer will have the same parts that are present in this teaser, only with much more footage and not the text that appears in this teaser. I hope to have them finished soon!" 

Used Programs:
Adobe Premiere 6.0 - to edit the movies and to create the teaser.
Adobe Photoshop - to create the text and some effects.
Cool Edit Pro 2 - to capture and to create the sounds.

Used Video:
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - Movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Teaser Trailer "Building the perfect Arnold "

Used Music:
TCM - Theme from the Terminator - I didn't use the theme unfortunately (which is one of the best versions ever made), but I took the last 3 seconds of this song, reversed them and slowed it down to create that tune that increases in volume during the teaser.

Download the trailer NOW!

Size: 30.2 MB( Zipped)
Format: Uncompressed avi
Running Time: 1:10

PLEASE NOTE that you will need WinZIP or WinRAR to extract this file.

Maurice, we think that your trailer is FANTASTIC! We especially like the part where the T2 teaser trailer footage is used, along with the Terminator theme drums in the background. A*!

We very much look forward to your next trailers, and hope to host them again too!

Please tell Maurice what you think of his teaser by e-mailing him.

Global Arnold Staff