If you don't want to be committed to a machinima group but still wanna be in one, this is your chance. They're small parts but necessary for the plot of my story, Trev and Eroth (World of Warcraft). There is also one position of a more long-term voice actor if you're also interested.
Now, because these lines are so short there won't be auditions, just send yours in and whoever's first, gets it. (or whoever I like first, but there are hardly any standards.) Plus the fact it's civilian, news anchormen/women so no deep kickass warriors, I think almost anybody could do these if you give effort and credibility. But there are some small requirements for each.
Any race will be accepted, gnome, human, troll, etc.
CNN: Another twenty factories have been closed worldwide...
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents.
Fox: The war in Northrend claimed another squadron of troops in the Icecrown glacier.
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. Simply O = "simply oh" just like the letter O.[i]
ABC: Laborer nominee Simply O is making several speeches for the election. The topic? Bailout plans.
[i]Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. Boosh = "boo + shh"
Fox: Nationalist Grand Marshall nominee Boosh says that patience is the best way to solve this economic crisis.
Any race will be accepted, gnome, human, troll, etc.
CNN: The Siege of Westguarde has finally been broken through by Alliance air fighters.
Any Horde race will be accepted, like no gnome or dranaei accents."
BBC: Six million Horde are unemployed-
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents.
Fox: Assault and theft crimes throughout Azeroth have increased to a new level.
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. Simply O = "simply oh" just like the letter O.[i]
CNN: Simply O wants to reduce crime if he is elected as Grand Marshall.
[i]Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. O = "oh" just like the letter O.
Fox: O is just says a bunch of liberal bullcrap...
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. O = "oh" just like the letter O.
ABC: O's bailout plan is only going to put the Alliance into more debt...
Any Alliance race will be accepted, like no trollish accents. Boosh = "boo + shh"
ABC: Obviously Boosh doesn't have the resources to get us out of this recession. O shows he does and the public agrees. Why are you in favor of Boosh?
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(Submittion information further below. )
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This part is for a long-term voice actor, who will need to do more voices as more films are made. Fortunately for you (maybe?), this character doesn't have much air time in any film (thus less reliance) but he is an important character in the grand scheme of things. Because of this, he will need an audition.
Character Name: Nap (Short for Napoleon, you'll know why below.)
Description: A short, tempered gnome who is excellent in politics and warfare. He is Simply O's (Guy running for Grand Marshal (Alliance version of a President)). assistant, kinda like a Vice President. He is deeply "loyal" for O (more kiss-assy) because of their potential power. He talks in a French accent. <<
Audition lines: (Pwn = P'own. A "p" in from of own.)
Nap: Rather, I introduce to you, monsieur, PWN Squad!
Nap: (Thinking what to say) Um, they can raid places...take out ze Horde spies, um... kill Liches and stuff.... Military missions, monsieur. Their name's pretty obvious.
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SUBMITTING INFO
If ANY parts interest you (and I hope they do), try it out, save it and send it to NicolasGiordano@live.com. Alternatively you can tell me another way and I'll try getting it your way! I hope these are some simple lines that anybody can say! Thanks for reading it and if you try out, very much thanks to you!
-Nicolas Giordano
Chef Films
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Thursday, August 27, 2009
The RuneScape Machinima Contest
Well this is brilliant, on August 25th I go onto the General forum of Tip.It to find out the first ever Jagex-official machinima contest. This was a bunch of firsts for me:
1) Never has machinima been actively pursued by the RuneScape player majority nor by Jagex
2) Never have I heard the words "RuneScape" and "Machinima" together, it was always "RuneScape movie"
3) There is a crap load of talent I never expected to be there.
Lets focus on Point 3, because since the days when I played RuneScape back in 2006 and 2007, there really was only a couple of good RuneScape machinima, not being a PvP video or Bank show-off video. Two that comes to mind are "The Lost Scroll" and "The Quest"... if all. After I stopped playing RuneScape in late 2007 and started to play WoW, RuneScape machinima was slightly increasing but I never gave a thought on how big it would become. During 2008 I've saw some of Tehnoobshow's movies and thought it was pretty alright, not the best but definitely an improvement from the past nothingness.
Then out of the blue, I look at this thread and find some amazing talent! The days of live-action machinima is being replaced by blue-screens! When I made Pasta Wars and Fresh Off the Boat, the only known form to make a movie was to film and type it in the real game. Sped up the parts between actors typing and merged it all together to call it a completed movie. Now however there is NO speeding up of clips, because the text is ".png'ed" into it! Effects like blue-keying are being used to create movements or things not possible in the regular RuneScape. Compared to what I knew of RuneScape machinima in the past, this was of a very, VERY big surprise. Never again shall I underestimate RuneScape machinima folks. Never again.
Unfortunately, August 25th was the deadline of the contest. If I would of known earlier, I would of definitely entered.
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If you're interested in seeing some work, here is Excl's (apparently a well-known RuneScape machinimator? Add that as #4!) favoruates, and I have to mostly agree with him. My comments are between ( ).
1) Never has machinima been actively pursued by the RuneScape player majority nor by Jagex
2) Never have I heard the words "RuneScape" and "Machinima" together, it was always "RuneScape movie"
3) There is a crap load of talent I never expected to be there.
Lets focus on Point 3, because since the days when I played RuneScape back in 2006 and 2007, there really was only a couple of good RuneScape machinima, not being a PvP video or Bank show-off video. Two that comes to mind are "The Lost Scroll" and "The Quest"... if all. After I stopped playing RuneScape in late 2007 and started to play WoW, RuneScape machinima was slightly increasing but I never gave a thought on how big it would become. During 2008 I've saw some of Tehnoobshow's movies and thought it was pretty alright, not the best but definitely an improvement from the past nothingness.
Then out of the blue, I look at this thread and find some amazing talent! The days of live-action machinima is being replaced by blue-screens! When I made Pasta Wars and Fresh Off the Boat, the only known form to make a movie was to film and type it in the real game. Sped up the parts between actors typing and merged it all together to call it a completed movie. Now however there is NO speeding up of clips, because the text is ".png'ed" into it! Effects like blue-keying are being used to create movements or things not possible in the regular RuneScape. Compared to what I knew of RuneScape machinima in the past, this was of a very, VERY big surprise. Never again shall I underestimate RuneScape machinima folks. Never again.
Unfortunately, August 25th was the deadline of the contest. If I would of known earlier, I would of definitely entered.
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If you're interested in seeing some work, here is Excl's (apparently a well-known RuneScape machinimator? Add that as #4!) favoruates, and I have to mostly agree with him. My comments are between ( ).
Here's a few of my fav's. Going to be a real tough contest indeed. Lots of really talented people out there.
ant1venom's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1Ie0TboIM
tehbumshows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLsmozLfw34 (a nice parody on the Gods)
HellsEnemy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecQLGNan7es
JinSr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQX02RNq46s (The bloody patience to make this!)
Chiszle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGxnLcodAw
Sparc Mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4bpTMmrjnU&feature=sub
Arrow Gun 99: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98t_wihDMQY
BoomerTwins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwB-jAWThBs
D00m100: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrvVma0901I (Voice acting was EXCELENT)
MrTheB0ss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFtrbiM7mPs (Awesome)
ThePerfectEffect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HH2FVVEXHI
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
"From Underground to Mainstream" by Erunno
Today I read this brilliant article by Erunno. This guy tells a lot about Machinima and is quite correct about it. Today I released this man speaks absolute truth.
"Every person is like an unique snowflake" or like I like to say it: "People make mistakes and talk rubbish". I'm here to filter that rubbish and tell you how wrong you really are.
Some people say machinima is the new mainstream art form... Okay, let's play your game then.
Rest of the Article
Hats off gentlemen, that was a brilliant article.
"Every person is like an unique snowflake" or like I like to say it: "People make mistakes and talk rubbish". I'm here to filter that rubbish and tell you how wrong you really are.
Some people say machinima is the new mainstream art form... Okay, let's play your game then.
Rest of the Article
Hats off gentlemen, that was a brilliant article.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
The Professionalim of Machinima
Hollywood, the highest filmmaking status we can think of. It boasts the highest level of professionalism and the most viewed: your audience can reach in the millions and even in the hundred millions.
And machinima is starting to be just like it.
Machinimas nowadays are becoming more impersonal and professional. The days where a group of friends create machinima are being replaced by working with strangers.
Voice acting is a large part of the machinima process and it's one of the most impersonal. Voice actor recruiting requests are polluting machinima forums and websites throughout the internet. With the average upcoming machinimator most likely a teenager, machinimas are getting negative feedback when they use teenage voices. Recruiting some actors for special characters and/or parts is one thing, but when the cast list is entirely from strangers from the internet, a question has to be asked: Are machinimas nowadays expected to use professional voice actors?
It seems that we are taking machinima too seriously; this level of professionalism is adding more pressure to the uprising machinimators. Machinimas, even the most popular machinimas, started as small groups making simple movies for fun. As time grew on, they knew what they wanted to do and added more professionalism into their work. This is perfectly fine and normal. Who doesn't want to improve on their work? But when we criticize new legitimate machinimas, with some level of decency, as awful only because they did not have spectacular effects or voice actors over the age of 24, does it not mean that we are being hypocritical? Or to those who are not as advanced in machinima as the "top dogs", is that not hypocritical to yourselves and your favorite machinima group?
The next topic is music. Some folks see custom music as a leading indicator to a good machinima, but I cannot see it as such. A good machinima would show a good flow of music, going through the scenes elegantly. So that rules out Numb from Linkin Park on a sad scene, but I disgress. Custom music should not be an automatic indication that a machinima is good. But rather, the flow of music, custom or not.
We are placing these things on such high pedestal that some can make the claim its reaching almost Hollywood and that we are forgetting where all successful machinimas came from: the small groups of visionaries.
But how can we let these visionaries show their works if we are criticizing their lack of effects, their lack of professionalism, their lack of things that can only come though experience and time.
The point of any machinima, and films in general, are it's stories. But when we are so focused on noticing the effects or the voice actors, we are forgetting the true work of the creator and ultimately the underlining theme of machinima:
We are making films out of video games. A game should not be taken seriously. And I believe, machinima shouldn't be taken as seriously as Hollywood considering what we are basing machinima out of: a game.
-Nicolas Giordano
And machinima is starting to be just like it.
Machinimas nowadays are becoming more impersonal and professional. The days where a group of friends create machinima are being replaced by working with strangers.
Voice acting is a large part of the machinima process and it's one of the most impersonal. Voice actor recruiting requests are polluting machinima forums and websites throughout the internet. With the average upcoming machinimator most likely a teenager, machinimas are getting negative feedback when they use teenage voices. Recruiting some actors for special characters and/or parts is one thing, but when the cast list is entirely from strangers from the internet, a question has to be asked: Are machinimas nowadays expected to use professional voice actors?
It seems that we are taking machinima too seriously; this level of professionalism is adding more pressure to the uprising machinimators. Machinimas, even the most popular machinimas, started as small groups making simple movies for fun. As time grew on, they knew what they wanted to do and added more professionalism into their work. This is perfectly fine and normal. Who doesn't want to improve on their work? But when we criticize new legitimate machinimas, with some level of decency, as awful only because they did not have spectacular effects or voice actors over the age of 24, does it not mean that we are being hypocritical? Or to those who are not as advanced in machinima as the "top dogs", is that not hypocritical to yourselves and your favorite machinima group?
The next topic is music. Some folks see custom music as a leading indicator to a good machinima, but I cannot see it as such. A good machinima would show a good flow of music, going through the scenes elegantly. So that rules out Numb from Linkin Park on a sad scene, but I disgress. Custom music should not be an automatic indication that a machinima is good. But rather, the flow of music, custom or not.
We are placing these things on such high pedestal that some can make the claim its reaching almost Hollywood and that we are forgetting where all successful machinimas came from: the small groups of visionaries.
But how can we let these visionaries show their works if we are criticizing their lack of effects, their lack of professionalism, their lack of things that can only come though experience and time.
The point of any machinima, and films in general, are it's stories. But when we are so focused on noticing the effects or the voice actors, we are forgetting the true work of the creator and ultimately the underlining theme of machinima:
We are making films out of video games. A game should not be taken seriously. And I believe, machinima shouldn't be taken as seriously as Hollywood considering what we are basing machinima out of: a game.
-Nicolas Giordano
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