First up, Paramount has smartly released a new IMAX 3D trailer for Transformers: Age of Extinction and by smartly, I mean the trailer features the film’s use of actual IMAX cameras, assuring audiences that fork over some extra money will get some actual IMAX footage for that dollar. I never saw what Michael Bay did with the IMAX cameras in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, primarily because I didn’t like the movie enough to fork over cash to watch it all again, but it would be nice to actually like one of these Transformers films enough to want to see it again.
Next is something a little more off the wall. I’ve featured the video work of Kevin B. Lee before and this time he’s put together a massive, 25 minute video titled “Transformers: The Premake“. Here’s how he describes it on the project’s official site:
Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth installment of the Transformers movie franchise directed by Michael Bay, will be released June 27 2014. But on YouTube one can already access an immense trove of production footage recorded by amateurs in locations where the film was shot, such as Utah, Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Hong Kong and mainland China. Transformers: the Premake turns 355 YouTube videos into a critical investigation of the global big budget film industry, amateur video making, and the political economy of images.
In some ways, he’s taken into a 26-second scene, only he’s done it on a massive level. Give it a watch below.
