Write your own Halo 5 Trailer

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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With the drought of Halo 5 into lately, I thought it would be fun to create your own trailers. It can be as detailed as you want. Text based descriptions or video if you so desire.
Granted, we know next to nothing about the plot, my trailer assumes the Ark theory is correct.

Trailer:

Halo 5 Trailer:
Establishing shot: the sands of the Ark. A large structure comes into focus, the Ark Control Room, noticeably damaged. Pan back and refocus on the sand dunes. Super-close-up shot: John’s foot impacts the sand, pull out and Pan up for a full body shot as he walks towards the structure.
Cut to the Control Room’s interior. Pan through the broken window and to the first Halo hologram. Cut to quick images of Infinity orbiting a ring
Ominous voice: “You have returned Reclaimer.”
Next Halo hologram and the Infinity, a bit clearer now, captain Lasky is communicating with a ground team.
Ominous voice: “I know why you have come.”
Pan through A few more Halo holograms and scenes of fighting, showing Spartan IV’s shooting at something.
Ominous voice: “Our enemy has returned.”
Pan through remaining Halo holograms. It is clear they are fighting the Flood, there is a glimpse of a large four armed creature. Cut back to the control room:
Ominous voice: “Humanities Test has begun.”
The elevator at the far end of the room reaches the top the doors slide open and John stands there for a second with a new weapon in hand, then walks forward into the camera. His armor clearly damaged.
Cut to a forward looking view from behind John. In the broken window rises a large Forerunner A.I construct, Mendicant Bias.
Ominous voice: “But you will not face the Parasite alone.”
Bias’ green lights white out the screen then cut to black.
Title screen: HALO 5 and motto: “The Reclamation Has Begun” which is “eroded” by s sand then the release date “eroded” by sand and then the XBox One logo.

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Building strings

Series of establishing shots highlighting the weather and environment of the Ark

Morgan Freeman:In a world where half ton Spartans do not turn Invisible…

Show Chief standing at the top of a dune with the sun flaring behind him, plainly visible

Freeman: Where half ton suits of armor do not soar through the air…

Chief slides down the side of the dune, clearly bound by gravity

Freeman: Humanities greatest hero will face his toughest challenge yet.

Chief cautiously makes his way through the doorway of a facility half buried in sand, SMG in one hand plasma rifle in the other.

Chief (camera angle is close up of his visor which is reflecting blue light with red flashes): What? C…

Jen Taylors voice begins cackling with high amounts of reverb and obvious corruption.

Jen Taylor (still not showing the source of the voice): Containment protocol must be followed.

Morgan Freeman: Halo 5! oh… and they can’t see through walls either.

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I would like to make it clear that this isn’t a trailer for Halo 5, so much as it is a title farther into the future, but there is nowhere else to put it.

The time setting: after the conflict with the Covenant is over, and humanity has obtained the majority of the galaxy, along with the Absolute Record. The UNSC has control of almost every still existing Forerunner object.

Trailer begins. There is a disturbing deep voice with a hint of clicking and wurring in it.

“So, it seems you have achieved peace.”

Fades in to a burning city with brown biomass surrounding some buildings in the background. Cut to a third person gameplay shot of a Spartan slooowly walking through Forerunner hallways.

“It seems you have obtained technologies and abilities that will help you.”

ONI Scientists discovering more Forerunner artifacts. They’re in a hurry. They’re horrified to find what one of the objects says.

Gameplay shot of a Spartan pressing a large Forerunner button. Fade away to a different shot of ONI interrogating Mendicant Bias.

“But this is all a lie.”

Pan shot quickly upward to a close-up of human with brown viens spreading through his face and his eyes turning white.

“You live in a false state of security, a false state of control.”

Gameplay shot of a Warthog with Spartans driving past a group of sprinting UNSC Marines. Smoke from a distant object suddenly shrouds all of them.

“Your arrogance in your power, your boasts and your claims, too familiar to the past…My past…Their past.”

Pan upward to an extremely large figure with a thick chest that resembles a brown ribcage with four large muscular thick arms slowly unraveling from each other from under the chest. There are Flood infection forms twice the size of normal with added arms and eyes crawling all across the large figure as he uncrosses his four arms.

“It…disappoints me.”

Cut to a close up of a Spartan loading a Battle Rifle

"But…

One of the large arms quickly but gently grabs a UNSC Marine and brings the struggling human up to two extremely large, yet dead black ovular eyes covered in a thin clear film with many circles underneath.
The voice then suddenly yells and sounds angry while still seeming somewhat calm.

…you are RIPE!!!"

*Fade to black. The word HALO appears.

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> Morgan Freeman: Halo 5! oh… and they can’t see through walls or spawn with one-hit-kill weapons either.

Fixed! :smiley:

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Fade in From Black

Unknown Male Voice: Thousands of years of planning, the sacrifices of an entire species, we have given much for this galaxy yet it may be for nothing.

Scene: The UNSC Infinity and other UNSC ships engage Covenant vessels in space above an unknown planet.

Cut to Black
Unknown Male Voice: The children of the galaxy continue to spill each others blood, oblivious to the danger that lurks in the periphery.

Cut to Black
Scene: Human scientists slowly back away from a crystalline pillar that begins to glow and grow.

Cut to Black
Unknown Male Voice: The tools of their salvation lay in wait for their time of need, yet they will be used to damn them instead.

Scene: Jul 'Mdama walks up a Forerunner terminal and stares deeply into the display. He then looks at the half of the Janus Key in his position.

Cut to Black

Unknown Male Voice: Time is running out, I must act before the hubris of the Forerunners repeats itself once again. The Reclaimers must see the light.

Scene: The inside of an abandoned UNSC vessel’s bridge. The camera slowly advances up to a screen that flashes the image of a Monitor.

Cut to Black
343 Guilty Spark: Or we shall all fade into the darkness.

Halo 5