Watch This DIY Star Wars Trailer made with Cardboard and Straws #SciFiSunday
Awesome shot for shot remake of a Star Wars trailer from Dumb Drum, via Make.
Dumb Drum’s Bryan Harley and Roque Rodriguez remade the trailer shot-for-shot with makeshift props, low-budget costumes, a homemade soundtrack, and some sweet cardboard space battles. All the ships are made of cardboard, and colored straws are tossed into the frame as laser blasts. In fact, cardboard is all over this production as storm trooper costumes and set pieces big and small. There’s also quite possibly one of the best Chewbacca costumes I’ve ever seen in a blink-and-you-miss-it clip towards the end.
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