We are ODST

Well I never imagined that the greatest piece of art would be a trailer to a Video game. I discovered this trailer on YouTube one day while looking for games t get for the xbox360. The name of the Trailer was "We are ODST". This trailer was for the new video game Halo 3 ODST. When I clicked on it and watched the trailer I felt something that I never thought an advertisement would make me feel. In this trailer I saw what the future could be like form a couple of years from now. We would be at war with aliens and our race would fight to prevent the extinction of humanity. The way the trailer opens up is so moving. Everyone is standing for a funeral of a solider. A boy is handed a flag as if he was some how related to that solider. Then it shows the boy being trained as an ODST solider. As the training gets difficult he continues to move on in his career. There is one shot where he jumps of a ledge and it cuts to him being in a pod of some sort while he is being dropped into a war zone. I thought that was a cool shot because it shows how far he has come and he was ready to jump into the action. The boy eventually battles on and then he get hit by an alien and he res his last rounds as if h is about to die. but he does not instead the alien dies and the boy is left with scars on his face. and then the boy turns into a man with the same scars on his face as a reminder of his near death experience. and as he stands their making a grave for his fellow comrades the men around him our like the younger versions of him self. and they put on their helmets and continue to fight.

I felt like this piece is portraying the future of war how much war will evolve in the future. This kind of viral video marketing is really effective when it comes to selling games. I think this is probably one of the best and most artistic commercials i have ever seen.