Anyone want to make a Machinima?

[DeathsFriend22]

Hi guys, I've been wondering lately if anyone wanted to make a Machinima as a group, I would be the director (I have a sort of half-formed script in my head)/ script writer ( and I would be a character too, of course). I can use as many people as possible for this (up to 16).

I also need to know if anyone happens to have a capture card and audio recording system. Without them we'll be unable to make the machinima.

The Machinima will be more of a serious one with humor thrown in. And no, it won't be like the ones displayed in Digitalph33rs guide to making machinima that was horribly retarded.

Sign up in this thread or by PM (preferably in this thread) and I'll add your name to the list. Also, if you have the technology required (capture card/audio recorder), it would be appreciated if you could tell me if you had that too.

PEOPLE IN ON THE PROJECT:
Me.
WoozyJOJO (cap. card!)
ShellshockNinja
Thomas
Defiance
Kenny
Grim
EDIT: Because Woozy's on board all we need now is people and someone to record the voices.

ALSO: First people to sign up get more important roles.
More important = live longer (lol) less important = killed off earlier. There are about 7 important roles to be played. 2 slots left ;) <----those are the randomly selected special roles.

2 RANDOM PEOPLE WILL BE GETTING SPECIAL ROLES. DO NOT ASK FOR THE ROLE OR YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED FROM HAVING IT.


BTW: yes I'm still working on the theme song. I can't release it until I have a good-quality audio recorder.

[Shell]

Well, I'll be in this, and I don't have any of the items we need. But, to replace that, I am VERY VERY VERY imaginative, and jokes come to me rather quickly. So, I'll be glad to help!

[DeathsFriend22]

cool. 3 people in it now :)
4 if Kenny does it.

[Defiance]

cool. 3 people in it now :)
4 if Kenny does it.

Would you rather me just get everybody from my old group into this and I remain leader and give you some power?That would be about 10 more people on this.
I could get us a pro editor and a guy with a camp card cause im awesome =]

[DeathsFriend22]

I was kind of thinking that we should try to use mostly Forgery guys on this, I thought that this would be a cool way to advertise for the site :/

but the pro editor guy would be good to have (does he have anything to record sound?).

Anways, people have been asking me to give them the story, so here it is.



Basic storyline outline - SUBJECT TO SOME CHANGES! don't expect this to be set in stone.
Story: Two remaining SPARTANS have been commisioned to train Spec Ops squads, all recruits who were recently selected for military work. The two SPARTANS specialize in Close Quarters combat and Weaponry.

Before training is complete, however, the Covenant attacks. Two recruits are split from the group in the action, and the rest are left to fight.

The remaining men at the base prepare for more fighting now the Covenant knows that 2 "Demons" reside there, while the two recruits who were split off make their way back to base. The machinima will go back and forth between the base and the two recruits. And yeah, the covenant will be attacking the base again and the recruits wil run into a few Elites (enemies in this story) on the way.

That's as much as I have so far - yeah, I've got dialogue too, but I'll be altering some and I haven't decided whether or not the 2 recruits will live to make it back to base or not.

first people to sign up get mor important roles.

[ACloggingtons]

me and shell started one of these a while back, but i got tied up in the other things that were going on. If you want, you can use the story i started:

Resisting Death (working title)

Back story

After the invasion of “Infest Resistance Base 3-37,” life for the members of Resistance squad “Alpha Nine” has been twisted into a bizarre fantasy turned reality. When the Infest pushed the squad deep into the mysterious valleys of the Southern Haratogan, they were forced to abandon their wounded comrade, Private Madison. They used their futuristic technologies to warp themselves somewhere else, somewhere safe, to escape the Infest. Private Madison, however, managed to remember where they thought they would end up. After the rest of the squad was gone, Smith was taken by the Infest. His new wanting for flesh and the desire for revenge on his former squad members, drives him to lead the Infest on a journey to find the escaped food. Alpha Nine has been preparing for an attack of some sort, but nothing of this magnitude.

When the squad awakened from their slumber after the exhausting journey through the “Void,” they found themselves on a large butte. In the distance there were satellites of enormous size, and the squad knew there was only one human inhabited planet that housed such architecture. They were on Juric, in the northwestern desert region known to them as Frote.

As they awaken, Episode 1 begins


Ep. 1: An unlikely Alliance.

When the crew comes to there senses, they notice Sergeant Dornstone has already awoken, as well as made camp. He is sitting by the fire, watching the birds as they soared through the sky. When he notices his squad is awake, he fills them in on what had happened since they left Haratogan.

[DeathsFriend22]

Very interesting...maybe I could kill off a couple of people at the beginning, have the squad show up, and the Infest could show up as enemies later as well as the Covenant?

And what would the infest look like?

Also, Defiance, Aclogs, do you want to be part of the machinima?

[ACloggingtons]

maybe, i'll see how it looks in a little. I was thinking that the infest would look like the flood, but that would be rather difficult, so they would have to be some sort of elite with a different head piece.

[DeathsFriend22]

actually i've already worked around it. We can use 4 people in campaign, have one die and call him the wounded private madison, and then 4 will escape through the portal. i thought it would be best done on Cortana.
If you would like, I'll send you that portion of the script so you can look at it :)

[Defiance]

Yeah I will work on it and also we need body dummies editors and a decnt cap card so I can still get them

[DeathsFriend22]

Woozy has a cap card. We still need an audio recorder to edit over the clip :)

[Ganye]

Once again losing focus of the real objective of the group...

[DeathsFriend22]

I'l be using the machinima at some points to showcase some of our best/ upcoming maps. I'll need map submissions first to be able to stage parts of the war on them (smaller maps will be preferable to give the illusion of extreme chaos in an 8v8 situation). I've already created the training game room (also one of my Forgery challenge submissions) in Forge and am working on the intro and instruction areas which will be used in the first episode (the base will be attacked in the second)

So, any submissions by PM are welcome. They need to be on Foundry, Avalanche, ghost town, or Valhalla. Vehicles are necessary only on Avalanhe and Valhalla, preferably less covenant (though a wraith and a ghost or 2 would be okay).

I plan on a massive vehicular battle against the covenant, so make sure there are plenty of Mongii, warthogs, and a tank on the Human's side. We will probably do a good deal of the machinima in Forge, provided the spawnpoints aren't visible.

[Thomas]

Once again losing focus of the real objective of the group...
We could turn this into something forge related, like move the set often into different forged maps where it'll be an advert too, if anything.

[Denominator]

We could turn this into something forge related, like move the set often into different forged maps where it'll be an advert too, if anything.

I would suggest that if we were to make a movie, we base it on a set of spartan "construction workers" that build stuff.

[DeathsFriend22]

We could turn this into something forge related, like move the set often into different forged maps where it'll be an advert too, if anything.

read the post above you, Thomas. I already said it would be showcasing some maps.

[Ganye]

Machinima in Forge = No-no. Look at all the Machinima. All of them are done in a FFA Slayer game. There's multiple reasons why Slayer is better than Forge.

[Thomas]

read the post above you, Thomas. I already said it would be showcasing some maps.
showcasing your maps. I re-worded it.


Ganye, it's filmed in FFA slayer but we're using a collection of forged maps, we could even get a challenge for machinima sets or something.

[Ganye]

We will probably do a good deal of the machinima in Forge, provided the spawnpoints aren't visible.
That's what I was referring to.

[Thomas]

We will probably do a good deal of the machinima in Forge, provided the spawnpoints aren't visible.
= Fail. Sorry, but someone had to say it.

[Kenny M]

was gonna snwer yesterday but ill do it

[DeathsFriend22]

Ganye, it's filmed in FFA slayer but we're using a collection of forged maps, we could even get a challenge for machinima sets or something.

Fine, film it in FFA slayer, but i didn't particularly appreciate this:

showcasing your maps, I re-worded it.

Read that post again very carefully. I will only showcase 1 of my maps, and I'm looking for people to submit more for the battle scenes. Not to mention the recruits will be training between battles so that leaves plenty of room for more Foundry maps (the scenery changes after each battlegame).

and thank you Kenny.

[Defiance]

Fine, film it in FFA slayer, but i didn't particularly appreciate this:



Read that post again very carefully. I will only showcase 1 of my maps, and I'm looking for people to submit more for the battle scenes. Not to mention the recruits will be training between battles so that leaves plenty of room for more Foundry maps (the scenery changes after each battlegame).

and thank you Kenny.I don't like the story youve got going no offense =/

[DeathsFriend22]

and do you know the story? lolz. I'll send you the script if you like ;)

[Defiance]

and do you know the story? lolz. I'll send you the script if you like ;)Maybe just because Idk really know anything lol

[Kenny M]

Maybe just because Idk really know anything lol



So you admit that Clark Kent is really LOIS LANE !??!?!?!!??!?!?!!???!?!

edit:holy crap i am tired anyways i would like to see the script too

[DeathsFriend22]

I sent the two of you the first page of the script. Tell me what you think plz. second page will be edited and sent soon, 3rd page shortly thereafter (they're done, but I need to fine-tune em a bit.)

[TheGrimPeeper28]

Machinima? I like this idea. I guess I'll give it a go.

[DeathsFriend22]

cool. I'll send you part of the script and you can choose your role :)

[Oblivions TNT]

Well since my Xbox is dead i got nothing else to do so send me a copy of the script. Mabe I can help out with writing some of it cuz I got plenty 'O time.

[DeathsFriend22]

I sent it to you :)

[DeathsFriend22]

Okay guys sorry for the double post but i needed to make sure peope knew that this is still alive.I need to know when everybody will be able to get on. I was thinking around 7 P.M. every few days starting this weekend? i wi9ll PMing those who don't reply here, so just reply lol. at the moment i believe we have 8 members and we could do with 16 - But that isn't necessary overall, the machinima will just take longer.

I would like to know what Gollum thinks of his Hone your Jumo map being in the machinima as well. If you don't want it in there Gollum, it's fine. but it would be useful.

[CostlyAxis]

I never noticed this thread :confused:

I'm in if you need help, and I see you have Woozy to record it so I don't need to help with that then. I have a ton of audio editing software, but ironically do not have a microphone nor voice talent. However, it is possible to record your voices straight through the recording of the game. That just leaves out the person who is recording it, but the sound quality probably won't be so great since it will be the same as if talking through a headset.

[DeathsFriend22]

Cool. We'll probably be using Skype to record the voices, and I can get people in my neighborhood to do the voice-over for people who don't have a microphone if i have to, as long as it's okay with those who have no microphones.

I'll be sending copies of the 1st 3 pages of the script to those already in the machinima (including Costly) so that you may choose your roles. Everyone will play a part in both an Elite and a Human, but the humans are the focus so the elites don't matter (Shell will be the retarded lite though).

Remember, 2 people will be selected randomly for the special roles.

Costly, those audio effects may be needed. Thanks.

I still need to know when everyone will be able to get on. if i don't get a reply from everyone i'll begin the PMing ;)

[Shell]

I will be able to be on every other day starting when my vacation to the shore ends. (Calender helps.)

[DeathsFriend22]

And when will that be? I'll need to know that :/

[CostlyAxis]

And when will that be? I'll need to know that :/
It says he won't be online until the 28th of this month.

[DeathsFriend22]

ah woops lol. Well that gives me the time to get the set for the beginning up. Anyone have a Standoff canvas?