Domino Footage

For part of my trailer I wanted to reference JFK's belief in the domino theory so I had the idea of using a domino chain falling which I thought would work well as it links to the cold war backdrop of the speech and also would be powerful imagery to use. I decided to use it on the part of the speech where JFK says he welcomes the  responsibility as it goes with this part well and makes you think he can handle the challenges that America faced at the time.

Initially I wanted to shoot this footage my self as I knew what I wanted to do so I did not think it would be too difficult however after experiments and shooting a couple of different angles something was off about the footage and it did not really work against the speech it was also not really powerful or have that much impact. Especially as the last domino falls which I want to be really strong. After playing with the footage in final cut against the speech I decided it did not really work the background was off and the fall of the dominoes was not really striking or powerful nor was it how I had planned it too look. 

However I still wanted the domino idea to play a role in my trailer so I looked around the web to see if there were any video that really stood out and worked for what I wanted to do. After finding loads that were not really helpful I found one that really worked as it had plain white background surrounding it and featured the dominoes falling from the front after panning them into view. This was really good and the last two dominoes that fall work well. Also the white background gives me room to use kinetic text here or add in some effects that will not distort the view too much.