Trailer spoilers--Snape

[caliburncy]

Hi,

Borrowing Amanda's trailer spoiler space:

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> So--what's with that expression? He should be either totally pissed
> off at them, or totally overjoyed that he is about to get them
> expelled. That expression is neither. He looks worried.

Well, it's very hard to draw firm conclusions without the full 
context of the finished film.

But both the worried expressions you refer to convey a little 
differently when you are able to see the full-moving video, rather 
than just a single still.

For example, with the first image you refer to (on page four of TLC's 
frame selections), in the full-motion trailer Snape is swishing his 
head from side to front, the way you do when someone says something 
surprising.  But then, once that sweeping motion is over, he lowers 
his eyes ever so slightly, as if contemplating something . . . 
perhaps he is disbelieving, perhaps he is making a connection with 
some other tidbit of information . . . it's pretty much impossible to 
tell.

With the second image you refer to (on page twelve of TLC's frame 
selections), when you see the full-moving images, it begins to look 
to me less like worry and more like an understated challenge: 
i.e. "And how do you explain *this*?"

Of course, there could very easily be some sort of undertone of worry 
in either of these situations--like I said, it's hard to infer 
anything from so little information really.  But hopefully that's 
helpful. :-)

As for your inability to get the trailer to play the video fluidly, 
are you downloading it to your hard drive first, or are you streaming 
it off the Internet?  If you are streaming it from the Internet 
instead of downloading, then you will be subject to whatever speeds 
your Internet connection is capable, and the result may be choppy.  
So downloading it and then playing it is better.

If you have already downloaded it and are *still* having problems, 
then the only reasonable explanation for this I can think of is if 
your processor is slow, or the seek time on your hard drive is 
extremely unusually large.  In that case, you would have to download 
a lower quality version of the trailer.

Amanda, feel free to e-mail me off-list if you want tech help with 
this.  I may not be able to help much, but I will do what I can.

-Luke