Anniversary collaboration video?
By
Balshor,
Posted on: 2008-02-07 18:28 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Well, I'd suggest featuring a bit of everything...comedy, drama, action, etc, etc.... 
I'd gladly volunteer footage of my Scrapper doing his own version of giving people a 'Boot to the Head'....
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Hey thanks for sharing "All Star"! I've been a big fan of the Abyss' stuff, and that one had totally passed me by.
Oh and yeah, I'd be happy to help with an anniversary project. I've got a decent voice, some clever toons, and a helpful SuperGroup that would probably like to contribute as well.
- Green Lantern
"Say, Jim...woo! That's a bad out-FIT!" - Superman: The Movie
Me 'n my posse: http://www.citygametracker.com/site/....php?user=5608
Miss Abyss did that one by just having people send random demo pieces. Then she took a song and put bits of demos that fit the lyrics in. The results were spectacular! You can have a lot of fun trying to work out how each demo clip fits with the lyrics being sung while it shows.
She was doing a villain version but never finished it. (I think she was crushed under the sheer weight of all the demos clips I sent her. 
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A couple years ago, Ms. Abyss made a collaborative video All Star, where various heroes contributed demos of their heroes and she spliced them together into a single video.
Well, given that we have a nice new forum and the 4 year anniversary of this game is coming in a few months, I think it might be nice to put together something similar. Now, never having made a video before, I possess very little of the necessary knowledge and none of the experience necessary for such a project. But, that's why it's a community collaborative project!
Before this project can get started, we would need two things.
First, some people interested in helping me produce the thing -- I can handle demo editing, but ideally somebody (or somebodies) with some experience would be willing to do things like video capture, vocals, sound editing, post-production, and so on.
Second, we need some ideas as to what the video would contain. As a couple of starting points for discussion, we could do a "clip-show" type video where we show numerous heroes, doing whatever they do one at a time. Alternatively and slightly more ambitiously, I was thinking that we could get a bunch of demos of people fighting Rikti, then demo-edit them to all appear in the "second coming of the end-of-beta invasion" in Atlas Park.
So, anybody interested in doing this? Any suggestions for what to stick in the video? (Plot? Setting? Music? All we know is that we have a large cast of characters....) This can be as simple or as complex as we're willing to make it, and with a target release date of April 28, it's not a bad time to start planning.