Halflife2.net Machinima Help Thread

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For those of you that wanted to help out with what I hope will become the Halflife2.net Machinima team, please post.

Only people who want to help should post.

I am working as team leader (for the time being anyway), as a director, writer, editor, and filmer. Skills are:

Director: Directs, envisions, etc; we only need a few of these
Composer: Writes music for the films
Sound Editor: Finds good sounds for some effects
Writer: Writes scripts and dialogue
Coder: Scripts events in the film
Editor: Edits film, should have programs such as Final Cut or have access to them
Filmer: Films for scenes, must know basic terminology and have full version of FRAPS (fraps.com)
Mapper: Makes small maps for individual scenes; most mappers will only help on one movie, but if there are dedicated ones that are into it and want to work on the team full time, they may.
Modeler: Creates models, mainly characters, for the productions; also may be a full time member if they are good and are dedicated
Actor: Part time job usually, only works on one movie. Controls the character.
Voice Actor: People who speak the dialogue in the movie. Must be able to sound convincing, and have a good microphone with little background noise.

*Note: actors should preferably own microphones as well, as teamspeak or in game voice will be used to communicate while we film.

People should post the following information if they want to help:

If you are a mapper or modeler who is experienced and dedicated and wish to be a full time member of the team, from movie to movie, put full time in parentheses next to the skill.

Example:

Forums Username: Audiophile
Real Name: Chris
Age: 15
Skills: Director, Writer, Editor, Filmer
Why I want to help: I'm a film student at my high school, and I plan on being a director when I grow up. I love machinima and I'm a good leader.
AIM: Guevesaui or Audiophile8912
MSN: [email protected]
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
 
Audiophile said:
Filmer: Films for scenes, must know basic terminology and have full version of FRAPS (fraps.com)

Why use Fraps when there's a built in video exporter that can get you higher framerates and better quality per frame? Isn't that generally desired in most professionally made Machinimas?
 
Doofus said:
Why use Fraps when there's a built in video exporter that can get you higher framerates and better quality per frame? Isn't that generally desired in most professionally made Machinimas?
Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. Most ingame video exporters tend to be a bitch to work with, set recording times and all that.
 
damn you're right.

Moderators?
 
Forums Username: SilentKilla
Real Name: Scott
Age: 17
Skills: Writer, Editor, Filmer
Why I want to help: I've written articles/reviews for About.com, and was wanting to help out with a mod of some sort. I also edit video for skateboarding videos right now.
AIM: Elementwanna3
Email: [email protected]
 
I have a question about Source and FRAPS:

I'd love to help with direction and filming, but my FRAPS runs like total ass in CS:Source when I record, even at the lowest resolution. Now, my machine is fairly beefy(3.2, 1GBDDR, X800XT) and can record Far Cry movies at 25 fps at full screen with sound no problem, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of any optimizations with fraps/Source I could make to improve perfromance.
 
Hey Audiophile.
If you want to find out some info about animation and scene direction in HL2, download the xsi tutorial video released last year. (I can't find it myself at the moment)
 
I'm not sure, since right now Steam is being retarded and not working on my computer due to some system problems (I have to reformat before HL2). Maybe ask this in the support forum?
 
Forums Username: poo poo head
Real Name: Adrian
Age: 16
Skills: Writer, Actor
Why I want to help: I always wanted to participate in a machinima film, i also like to write, so if i could i would also write.
AIM: Don't have one
MSN: or one of these
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
 
I'll help if I can for actor, and a couple voice parts. I do have a mic.

Forums Username: bam23
Real Name: mason
Age: 14 (I assure you, I've gone through the whole puberty thing.)
Skills: Is it necessary? I really hope not.
Why I want to help: I love machina and always wanted to be in one, since this one is HL2, it's a huge bonus.
AIM: xmasianx
MSN: none
Email: [email protected]
 
Nevermind fraps, just use record <demo name> [incrimental] in the console. It's slightly dodgy, and I have no idea how to manipulate the camer during playback, but it's a bajillion times less stressful on the PC than FRAPS, not to mention it "records" sound accurately.
 
Forum Username: SilverStealth89
Real Name:Adam
Age: 15
Skills:Composer, Sound Editor, Director(part time), voice actor, actor
Why I want to help: Cuz i really wanted to be in a machinia movie, and btw I'm a in really life and I work with sound effects a lot since im in our radio station at school. i do alot of that music stuff i can send i few things over if you wnat to hear it (i hope the school didnt delete it). o and ive been told that my voice is pleasant to listen to. (lol not trying to be concieted)
AIM: azh1989
MSN: i had one not anymore
e-mail:[email protected]
 
Forum Username: Icarus
Real Name: Tom Cruise
Age: 38
Skills: Actor
Experience: Risky Business, Top Gun, Vanilla Sky (oops)
Why I want to help: Because I like to act, but I have skin problems at the moment, so I thought machinima would be a good transition for meAIM: cruisy1
MSN:[email protected]
email:[email protected]
 
Forum Username: kaellinn18
Real Name: Matt
Age: 24
Skills: Writer/voice actor
Why I want to help: I'm an aspiring fiction writer. Once my wife gets here PhD I would like to try my hand at it full time. If you want writing samples (story type, not scripts), email me.
AIM: kaellinn18
MSN: You're kidding right?
e-mail:[email protected]
 
Forum Username: CyberPitz
Real Name: Paul
Age: 19
Skills: Voice Actor, Actor
Why I want to help: I've always wanted to take part in something that takes a great idea, and makes it better. I've been trying to decide if I want to be in the multimedia field for when I decide WHEN I go to college. Also feel like I could lend a decent hand in this production!
MSN: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
 
Forum Username: Layp
Real Name: Daniel
Age: Born: 1990 April 24th so that makes me today...14
Skills: Concept Director, writer.
Why: Why not. Working in film is a life goal for me so doing something like this is a good start.
MSN: I am never online so don't bother
AIM: Laugh At Your Pain
Email: contact me at fro2u @ hotmail.com, I will forward you my gmail from there.
 
Forum Username: Dark Jedi
Real Name: Robbie
Age: 15 (I'm done with the whole puberty thing and have a fairly deep voice)
Skills: Actor/Voice Actor/Writer if necessary
Why I want to help: I enjoy writing immensely, and I've been told I'm a pretty good writer. Though I've never tried writing a script for a production with this much potential, I'd still like to lend a hand. This project just sounds pretty cool if it ever gets off the ground, and I've always wanted to be in one of these productions. School may constrain the times I'll be available to "act" or write, but if my schedule allows, I'd love to help out.
AIM: Link8489
MSN: [email protected], but I'm never on.
e-mail: [email protected]
 
This thread is sort of pointless now, best to go to the temporary forums (while we wait for word about this being a community project or not) and post there.

www.taintedasylum.net/forums
 
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