Post by kazeken on Dec 6, 2006 0:24:17 GMT -5
It has occurred to me there are no really good machinima (Ex. Red Vs. Blue. If you don't know who this is, you should google them.) series made with FFXI material. This is a shame. I intend to right this horrible atrocity by creating a series. It should be noted this is a fairly long term goal, and I don't plan on launching in right away.
This is where I need your help EoT, I need ideas. And not just ideas on subject matter, ideas on EVERYTHING. Programs to use while recording, programs to use while editing, whether or not it should have profanity or how strong the profanity should be ( a well placed beavers dam can be a great humor tool, yet the ability to make people laugh without curse words is far better), a title for the series, music you think would be cool for the credits, etc etc. ANYTHING you wanna say about this project, feel free to say. Criticize all you want, though no flaming plz :/ Without critical thinking, this project will undoubtedly fail.
Here's my ideas so far:
Program used to record video/audio: Fraps (only trial version right now, which is definitely usable. However I'll be upgrading to full version soon as I get the cash.
Program used to edit video/audio: windows movie maker. I'm also experimenting with a trial version of Wondershare and some program I can use to strip the audio from the video, allowing me to put in new audio.
Targeted Audience: FFXI Players (both casual and hardcore). While making a series that could make even people who have never played FFXI laugh would be sweet, it's darn near impossible. By targeting people who play ffxi, we can use jokes that people who have never played won't get.
Program used to record Voice acting: None so far ; ;. Imma research teamspeak and see if there's a way to record in it.
Subject Ideas: Follow a party as it goes through the many experiences in FFXI. I'd like to do this thing in a role playing type format. Pretending that the character has a life of it's own. I'm not sure if we should do a linear story following a party from it's days at lvl 1, or follow a mid lvl party, or follow a party at lvl 75 experiencing things in end game. I like following a party from lvl 1 on up the most out of these ideas. Helps support the "aliveness" of the character.
Use RL voices for each character (i.e. voice acting).Problems with this idea: FFXI characters mouths don't move. However, this can be overlooked and counted as just a part of using FFXI as the media source. Problem with this idea: if people who are involved want to voice act their own character, we have to find something that we can use to record all are voices at once. This could also be hard on some of our PS2 brethren and sistren who want to get involved.
I'm gonna stop here for now and see what you guys have to say. If anyone wants to be in this thing, I'll probably be looking for 6 full time video and/or voice actors. If you would like to voice act your own character, that is strongly encouraged (so long as your voice can be understood.) However, if you can't do the audio part and would still like to be one of the video actors (and don't mind someone else doing you voice, which is what will happen) feel free. PLZ REPLY WITH YOUR THOUGHTS/IDEAS/CONCERNS/ETC...
This is where I need your help EoT, I need ideas. And not just ideas on subject matter, ideas on EVERYTHING. Programs to use while recording, programs to use while editing, whether or not it should have profanity or how strong the profanity should be ( a well placed beavers dam can be a great humor tool, yet the ability to make people laugh without curse words is far better), a title for the series, music you think would be cool for the credits, etc etc. ANYTHING you wanna say about this project, feel free to say. Criticize all you want, though no flaming plz :/ Without critical thinking, this project will undoubtedly fail.
Here's my ideas so far:
Program used to record video/audio: Fraps (only trial version right now, which is definitely usable. However I'll be upgrading to full version soon as I get the cash.
Program used to edit video/audio: windows movie maker. I'm also experimenting with a trial version of Wondershare and some program I can use to strip the audio from the video, allowing me to put in new audio.
Targeted Audience: FFXI Players (both casual and hardcore). While making a series that could make even people who have never played FFXI laugh would be sweet, it's darn near impossible. By targeting people who play ffxi, we can use jokes that people who have never played won't get.
Program used to record Voice acting: None so far ; ;. Imma research teamspeak and see if there's a way to record in it.
Subject Ideas: Follow a party as it goes through the many experiences in FFXI. I'd like to do this thing in a role playing type format. Pretending that the character has a life of it's own. I'm not sure if we should do a linear story following a party from it's days at lvl 1, or follow a mid lvl party, or follow a party at lvl 75 experiencing things in end game. I like following a party from lvl 1 on up the most out of these ideas. Helps support the "aliveness" of the character.
Use RL voices for each character (i.e. voice acting).Problems with this idea: FFXI characters mouths don't move. However, this can be overlooked and counted as just a part of using FFXI as the media source. Problem with this idea: if people who are involved want to voice act their own character, we have to find something that we can use to record all are voices at once. This could also be hard on some of our PS2 brethren and sistren who want to get involved.
I'm gonna stop here for now and see what you guys have to say. If anyone wants to be in this thing, I'll probably be looking for 6 full time video and/or voice actors. If you would like to voice act your own character, that is strongly encouraged (so long as your voice can be understood.) However, if you can't do the audio part and would still like to be one of the video actors (and don't mind someone else doing you voice, which is what will happen) feel free. PLZ REPLY WITH YOUR THOUGHTS/IDEAS/CONCERNS/ETC...
My only suggestion atm is to focus on a linkshell instead of a single pt. That way you can get all lvl ranges into your story. Can have a newbie just tryin' to learn how to use fast blade and you can have a vetern adventurer falling off the edge of Sky and landin' in the middle of a pt in Qufim 
Just gotta figure out how to use it 
all I can add is if you look at RedvsBlue (my only experience with machinima) they have a lot of characters and only a few voice actors because they have one guy who is really good at doing a lot of voices, so I'd suggest trying to find someone who's good at changing their voice a lot, then you can have half the cast right there 