Announcing Raging Bull Productions Videos "City of Heroes: Romulus Ascension"

So, Raging Bull Productions has now completed it's first video. Originally intended to be little more then a week end project to add audio to an in-game cut scene, this quickly grew into creating a 2 minute mini-movie and is now being released under the Raging Bull Productions name. I present to you:

City of Heroes: Romulus' Ascension

This was a mostly fun project to undertake. Relatively simple to cut my teeth on there were a lot of things I did that frankly made the project that much more difficult. The biggest was being impatient and working on the video before I had gotten the voices in. That created a lot of head aches that were only compounded later on in the project.

Another thing I did was I attempted to follow a "How does this work? how can I improve it?" mentality, meaning I took was was there added a little bit to it, looked at what I added, then added a bit more. This meant I was constantly going back to the drawing board to either remake the same demo file several times, or messing up an existing one and restarting from the original demo. Moving forward I will attempt to set up the story before I give any solid though to editing the video. That more then anything else was my biggest failure with this video. The most glaring example of this is the far too long shot of Romulus walking away from the camera and to the stairs to face the Nictus. Originally I had intended to have that shot inter-cut with shots of the 5th Column commander deploying his troops but the needed shots never came to be.

I had also intended to expand the transformation sequence into something somewhat inspired by Skeletor's transformation in "Masters of the Universe", only with out the long-winded pointless speech, with the light blinding those close by and seeing them covering their eyes and such. Again, that never happened.

These were all because of my lack of planing in the beginning. I really got to a point where I realized that if I was ever going to finish the video I had to put my foot down and say "NO more! Finish what is there!" And I did. Well, live and learn. At least I have learned the important lesson of planning first in this sort of a production. My next challenge: producing City of Heroes: Shining Stars!

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Rockin', Torroes! Very glad I could help out. I really like your final choice for the vocal effects for the Nictus Entity. It was obscure and extraterrestrial, but not overdone.

I wish I could have been there for the Shining Star auditions, but things in real life were taking over my gaming time. As it is, I look forward to seeing the final project!

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@Winter. Because I'm Winter. Period.
I am a blaster first, and an alt-oholic second.

no worries Winter. We're working on the promo episode now and hope to be getting started on the series itself in a couple months. So we'll be looking for more voices in the none-to-distant future. keep an eye on the forums.

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