http://youtu.be/MZUsc1ewgUQ
Um… holy shit. Really, those are the only two words needed to describe the full length trailer for Where the Trail Ends. I must admit I was a little surprised to see it so soon, but I’m guessing with its release less than a month away and the teaser only clocking in just over 100,000 views their goal of getting 1 million views on the teaser may have been a bit ambitious. But I’d say that the the full four minute trailer might just get to million. I mean if a Nike ad that blatantly flaunts a ban on advertising mentioning London during the Olympic games can get over three million in a matter of days…
The productions values on Where the Trail Ends are going to be through the roof! In an interview I read the other day, the sound is being edited right now at the George Lucas Skywalker Ranch, not to mention the use of 4k, 5k and 6k cameras and then of course there’s the obligatory helicopter filming riding shots. In the post-That’s It That’s All and Art of Flight world we live in, a big budget action sports film wouldn’t be complete without a few of those.
Cynicism aside this is going to be one amazing film. And I seriously can’t wait, in fact I’m counting the days!
premiere?
o SICK! But are you sure they didn’t hit a million? I’m sure the first trailer was hosted on Red Bull not you-tube, just like this one and there seems to be double up posts for the original trailer all over pinkbike/vimeo/yt etc and pinkbike has a banner up saying they hit 1,000,000…
Yeah I did see that, but i just did a quick check of most of the major sites and none have the Red Bull video, they all seem to have the one YouTube clip… Other than that ad on Pinkbike even the official Red Bull press release doesn’t mention the 1 million views…
Pretty cool. But really, all those helicopters, big budgets etc, can’t really be called hard core or real adventure. Try doing it with out all that back up and no one paying the riders. Thats where the adventure really is. Much more exciting!
Doug, while I get your point and understand the futility of entering into chatroom debates, without the budget and all that technology very few of us would ever get to see that sh*t. If WTTE inspires people to go out and ‘hardcore adventure’ for themselves, it’s done part of its job. For the rest of us, let’s just embrace the otherwordly footage and enjoy it for what it is. I’m with you Caleb ‘holt sh*t’ indeed!