Memorial Mayhem Trailer - Machinima
By
ChristopherRobin,
Posted on: 2012-06-04 11:54 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
Nice trailer, I wish I had known about this about three days ago. >.<
@Kyuu
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Originally Posted by Kyuuen
Nice trailer, I wish I had known about this about three days ago. >.<
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It'll be advertised in the Virtue area and on VirtueVerse and I'll probably try to make sure it goes elsewhere as well next time around.
Cool trailer Ransim! 
For your first go this is impressive.
A few thoughts for improvement...
Some of the scenes, more so for the heroes, seemed to be a camera that is pointed
at someone who's just standing there. I wouldd suggest either have them doing
something (thought bubble/speech/emote)or shorten those segments a bit.
Love the song 7 Nation Army (even liked this sort of tripstep-ish version) and it was cool
to see people fist pumping to the beat but sometimes what is being said has nothing
to do with what's happening visually. Still not bad and I know it's rare to get
a perfect fit unless the video is made for that specific song but maybe
some different scene arrangement or a diff song would work better.
Some of the the text doesn't work well together, i.e.
"What will you choose? Aid the villains? (is aid a what in this context?)
Maybe instead "Which will you choose?" or if you must keep
the what then perhaps "What will you choose to do?" Aid the villains?
Also "Aid the villains" and "Save the world" don't really sound like opposing options (unless the villains
are out to blow up the planet) since one is a side-choosing and the other is an objective.
If you want to mention the objective maybe "Help save civilization? or bring it to it's knees?"
Or just mention the sides to choose from (do you ever really give aid
to villains? seems like something they would scoff at 
)
with "Join the villains" + "Or aid the heroes"
Just my 
hope it helps and I look forward to what you come up with next. 
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Yeah, I actually hit a pretty major time constraint when making this. I started work on it two weeks before the event and then had major RL issues crop up and lost pretty much all of the time I had set aside. So unfortunately the hero scenes I wanted to do got axed a bit.|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Cool trailer Ransim!
For your first go this is impressive. A few thoughts for improvement... Some of the scenes, more so for the heroes, seemed to be a camera that is pointed at someone who's just standing there. I wouldd suggest either have them doing something (thought bubble/speech/emote)or shorten those segments a bit. |
I did originally plan for the villain items to stand out more, after all this was their big plan, the heroes were just reacting to that.
But yeah lack of time. I finished this up literally the night before the event rather then several days before.
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Love the song 7 Nation Army (even liked this sort of tripstep-ish version) and it was cool
to see people fist pumping to the beat but sometimes what is being said has nothing to do with what's happening visually. Still not bad and I know it's rare to get a perfect fit unless the video is made for that specific song but maybe some different scene arrangement or a diff song would work better. |
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Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Some of the the text doesn't work well together, i.e.
"What will you choose? Aid the villains? (is aid a what in this context?) Maybe instead "Which will you choose?" or if you must keep the what then perhaps "What will you choose to do?" Aid the villains? Also "Aid the villains" and "Save the world" don't really sound like opposing options (unless the villains are out to blow up the planet) since one is a side-choosing and the other is an objective. If you want to mention the objective maybe "Help save civilization? or bring it to it's knees?" Or just mention the sides to choose from (do you ever really give aid to villains? seems like something they would scoff at )with "Join the villains" + "Or aid the heroes" Just my hope it helps and I look forward to what you come up with next. |
The whole story revolved around the heroes rallying to save the world (or at least the eastern seaboard of the US) from Phanto's plan to create a psychic bomb. The main villains spent time convincing other villains to aid them in creating the distractions and taking down some of the challengers to help the plan succeed.
But yeah I look back on it now and there are quite a few things I'd do differently, for at least the sake of clarity. But it was a great way to learn, especially under the gun I had to figure out some creative fixes to a few issues I had.
Thanks for the critique! There will definitely be more, probably way more cut scenes for the SG I'm in and I'm mulling trying my hand at a news segment. It's really a lot of fun being able to build my own scenes in game, I wish I'd learn to do it sooner.
You did very well then considering the constraints and time
crunch and trying not to give away the ending.
You deserve to take a nice break to rest and relax...
and maybe go throw a background on this.
Just dawned on me that I could post this here if anyone wanted to see. I finished up my first real machinima over the weekend as a trailer for a huge RP event held on Virtue Sunday evening named Memorial Mayhem.
The video was created using demo editing and some creativity along with Sony Vegas. I had a lot of fun putting cameos in this of many of Virtue's Role players and people in my own SG the Challengers. Everyone really got a kick out of it. So I hope you enjoy, critiques are always welcome and greatly appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X-2y3I9KO4
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