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The trailer for ''[[Year Zero ]]'' has been uploaded.
It can be viewed in [http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_hi.html high-res] and [http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_lo.html lo-res]. A description of the video follows:
The shot appears to be taken looking out through the window of kind of vehicle (due to the speed) travelling in a desert-like area. About 5.4 seconds into it, a blue sign flashes by, which, when viewed frame by frame can be seen to read
At this point, the audio (formerly just slight road noise) changes to a high pitched noise.
At 11.4 seconds (or about there), there is a loud thump and the camera begins to shake and swings backwards, where there is clearly a [[The Presence|Presence Hand]]. This is visible (shakily, with a lot of static) for about 4 seconds. During this distortion, at frame 24 of the 12th second, the text "/0024" can be seen (it is inside the second black bar that appears on the screen). The screen then fades black and the words "Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero" appear, fade, and "4.17.07" shows up, fades, and "[[nin.com|www.NIN.com]]" fades in. All three screens of text seem to have "tracking issues" with the words having a shaking ghost-like image behind them.
==Production==
[[Rob Sheridan]] writes [https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1497314216063033344]:
<blockquote>The idea for the trailer came about with [[Trent Reznor|Trent]] while we were on a long bus ride through Spain on the [[Performance 2007|NIN 2007 tour]]. The landscape we happened to be passing through was perfect for the idea of a sighting caught on camera accidentally by someone filming out a car window. We filmed it out the tour bus window with a little digital camera to give the “home movie” look, and I added The Presence visual effects frame by frame, as well as the text on the sign that passes by, a hidden clue for the Year Zero ARG experience. Then I added the static/glitching effects and the title animation while Trent and [[Atticus Ross ]] designed the sound. The trailer took two days from concept to posting, created on laptops while on the tour bus. A real case of creative lightning striking.</blockquote>
Sheridan writes more extensively about the trailer on his PateronPatreon:
[https://www.patreon.com/posts/in-depth-year-15-63053025 In-Depth: The Year Zero trailer, 15 years later]
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