Siliconmaster
November 29th, 2009, 11:26 PM
When talking with Reaper in NYC today, I realized I'd never shown any of my video work, which is really what I do the most. Halo and 3d stuff is merely a side project, as evidenced by the rate of progress on those projects. :v:
I'm going to create a portfolio of everything I have ever done, in the order I did it. It will take a while, as I have to upload everything to youtube, but I hope people will be interested, and not only watch me improve as an artist, but provide critiques on new stuff as it appears.
First off, my first ever movie: Stweird. I had just bought my video camera, and I was staring at the fish mobile. Behold a strange and amusing short film. Also, the first time I had edited anything- thus began my interest in editing video to music.
Stweird- 2004- 8th grade
56AVW83MU74
Soon after I made that trippy vid, I found a summer film camp called Hollywood in Vermont, which was led by a guy who had been part of the industry and now teaches at Dartmouth. The movies were always amusing, and generally made little sense. Unfortunately, this one has the very end cut off, but it didn't exactly clarify anything anyway. If I ever find a version with the end I'll replace this one. I'll also add a spoilered (lol) plot summary for those who actually care.
Clockwork- Summer '04- Hollywood in Vermont Session 1
0npIPUgFO6w
So, the original plot (sort of explained in the flashback mere seconds after the video cuts out), was that way back when, Clockwork and Mark were friends. Clockwork walks in on Mark and his girlfriend, Sally, so he knocks out Mark. For no apparent reason, Sally knocks out Clockwork with a hair brush and sticks his fingers in a fan. Hence the clockwork fingers. Later, Mark wakes up, sees a gun lying on the ground, and blood, and assumes Clockwork killed Sally.
Now, in current time- Sally calls Clockwork, and tells him to kill Mark. She is also the secretary who tells Mark to kill Clockwork. However, Mark is about to kill Clockwork WHEN:
Sally walks in and tries to kill them both. Clockwork manages to shoot her, then tells Mark "I forgive you." He walks out and closes the door. Cue epic music.
Ok, so that one made even less sense than I remembered. Ah well- early movies are always amusingly terrible. We did bring that character back in a later movie as an easter egg, so remember Clockwork of the mechanical fingers.
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That same summer, my family took a trip to visit the grandparents in Colorado, and I took a lot of footage of hiking in both Colorado and Utah. The result is a half-hour long video, set to music. I'm not sure if anyone has the patience to sit through it, but it's a decent video.
Colorado '04- Summer '04
http://vimeo.com/7890314
After that I took Hollywood in Vermont again, this time in their winter session. The result is a far superior movie to Clockwork, although it is still quite simple. We also forgot a crucial shot- a mint lying in Sally's bloody hand. And yes, we managed to put girls with the name "Sally" in more than one movie. Call it a useless inside joke. Note that the guy is also "Marcus", similar to "Mark Foley", from Clockwork.
Of Murders and Madmen- Winter '04/'05- Hollywood in Vermont Session 2
njMFog9eLVU
Around this time our group from camp began filming March of the Killer Rabbit, the first of 3 large projects that would come to define my high school years. The below paragraph is spoilered for longish explanation- interesting and relevant to this forum, actually, but disruptive to the video narrative.
The second of these 3 large projects was Precipice, which many of you are now familiar with. I discovered Halo 1 and CE this year, and began to make my own map. I of course had no idea what I was doing, and after a year of dedicated work I gave up. Some of you commented that it looked like a 2005 map. Well, it was. :v:
More about the third project later.
March of the Killer Rabbit spanned at least 3 years of on-and-off filming, and although it was never fully filmed, I finally cleaned it up and filled the gaps with narrative text. Here is the result, split into two 10-minute sections. Keep in mind that though we started filming at this point, other scenes were filmed as late as my junior year. This was also my first project working with other people on our own.
March of the Killer Rabbit- 2004 through 2007- Independent Project
0a9gRgqy6Wc
C1BPWwdxGIo
March of the Killer Rabbit is probably one of my favorites in terms of its absurdity and humor. My dad played General Aahnold, and he could never quite get the accent right, but the intent came through pretty well. I'm also in it- I get punched out after giving Aahnold a high five instead of the pen.
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The last movie I made in the normal Hollywood in Vermont camp was called Immortality. It's longish, and not only has a decent plot, but is actually understandable! :haw: The airplane footage I took on the same trip as Colorado '04.
Immortality- Summer '05- Hollywood in Vermont Session 3
EaR3yG8u8p0
After giving up on Precipice after a long struggle with tool (see spoilered paragraph above for more on this), I realized just how much work mappers put into their stuff, and how much love and effort goes into video games in general. I sat down and decided to make a tribute to their work. What I made was the first version of A Halo CE Roadtrip.
A Halo CE Roadtrip- Summer '05
_8R3tTb2n2g
Now, to discuss the third major project of high school, Dust to Dust. Coming off the heels of Precipice and the majority of the Rabbit filming, I was looking for a new project when I met [EJ]Bean, known then as Hailstorm, on Gruntmaps. He had an idea for a "war of the worlds miniseries" which sounded sort of cool. I wrote a few pages, he liked it, and the project grew from there. The first trailer was filmed completely from scratch, and had been written before I even joined the group(duo?). As such it was cool, but lacked any real plot, except for a few scenes that I had written.
Dust to Dust Trailer #1- Fall '05
MaBEIDdqc3I
I'm going to take a chance and upload the entire script for Dust to Dust. I made it into a .pdf file, so people can read it, and I theoretically can keep my claim on the words themselves. Looking back on it, it isn't brilliant, has terrible formatting, and lacks a whole lot of character development. However, I'm still proud of it, and I hope whoever reads it likes it. It can be read in just a few hours- don't be overwhelmed by the length.
Dust to Dust Script- Fall '05 through Summer '06
http://www.filefront.com/15033779/Dust%20to%20Dust%20Master.pdf
To save this poor first post, I will now go to a "part 2" post.
I'm going to create a portfolio of everything I have ever done, in the order I did it. It will take a while, as I have to upload everything to youtube, but I hope people will be interested, and not only watch me improve as an artist, but provide critiques on new stuff as it appears.
First off, my first ever movie: Stweird. I had just bought my video camera, and I was staring at the fish mobile. Behold a strange and amusing short film. Also, the first time I had edited anything- thus began my interest in editing video to music.
Stweird- 2004- 8th grade
56AVW83MU74
Soon after I made that trippy vid, I found a summer film camp called Hollywood in Vermont, which was led by a guy who had been part of the industry and now teaches at Dartmouth. The movies were always amusing, and generally made little sense. Unfortunately, this one has the very end cut off, but it didn't exactly clarify anything anyway. If I ever find a version with the end I'll replace this one. I'll also add a spoilered (lol) plot summary for those who actually care.
Clockwork- Summer '04- Hollywood in Vermont Session 1
0npIPUgFO6w
So, the original plot (sort of explained in the flashback mere seconds after the video cuts out), was that way back when, Clockwork and Mark were friends. Clockwork walks in on Mark and his girlfriend, Sally, so he knocks out Mark. For no apparent reason, Sally knocks out Clockwork with a hair brush and sticks his fingers in a fan. Hence the clockwork fingers. Later, Mark wakes up, sees a gun lying on the ground, and blood, and assumes Clockwork killed Sally.
Now, in current time- Sally calls Clockwork, and tells him to kill Mark. She is also the secretary who tells Mark to kill Clockwork. However, Mark is about to kill Clockwork WHEN:
Sally walks in and tries to kill them both. Clockwork manages to shoot her, then tells Mark "I forgive you." He walks out and closes the door. Cue epic music.
Ok, so that one made even less sense than I remembered. Ah well- early movies are always amusingly terrible. We did bring that character back in a later movie as an easter egg, so remember Clockwork of the mechanical fingers.
-------------------------------------------------------
That same summer, my family took a trip to visit the grandparents in Colorado, and I took a lot of footage of hiking in both Colorado and Utah. The result is a half-hour long video, set to music. I'm not sure if anyone has the patience to sit through it, but it's a decent video.
Colorado '04- Summer '04
http://vimeo.com/7890314
After that I took Hollywood in Vermont again, this time in their winter session. The result is a far superior movie to Clockwork, although it is still quite simple. We also forgot a crucial shot- a mint lying in Sally's bloody hand. And yes, we managed to put girls with the name "Sally" in more than one movie. Call it a useless inside joke. Note that the guy is also "Marcus", similar to "Mark Foley", from Clockwork.
Of Murders and Madmen- Winter '04/'05- Hollywood in Vermont Session 2
njMFog9eLVU
Around this time our group from camp began filming March of the Killer Rabbit, the first of 3 large projects that would come to define my high school years. The below paragraph is spoilered for longish explanation- interesting and relevant to this forum, actually, but disruptive to the video narrative.
The second of these 3 large projects was Precipice, which many of you are now familiar with. I discovered Halo 1 and CE this year, and began to make my own map. I of course had no idea what I was doing, and after a year of dedicated work I gave up. Some of you commented that it looked like a 2005 map. Well, it was. :v:
More about the third project later.
March of the Killer Rabbit spanned at least 3 years of on-and-off filming, and although it was never fully filmed, I finally cleaned it up and filled the gaps with narrative text. Here is the result, split into two 10-minute sections. Keep in mind that though we started filming at this point, other scenes were filmed as late as my junior year. This was also my first project working with other people on our own.
March of the Killer Rabbit- 2004 through 2007- Independent Project
0a9gRgqy6Wc
C1BPWwdxGIo
March of the Killer Rabbit is probably one of my favorites in terms of its absurdity and humor. My dad played General Aahnold, and he could never quite get the accent right, but the intent came through pretty well. I'm also in it- I get punched out after giving Aahnold a high five instead of the pen.
--------------------------------------------------
The last movie I made in the normal Hollywood in Vermont camp was called Immortality. It's longish, and not only has a decent plot, but is actually understandable! :haw: The airplane footage I took on the same trip as Colorado '04.
Immortality- Summer '05- Hollywood in Vermont Session 3
EaR3yG8u8p0
After giving up on Precipice after a long struggle with tool (see spoilered paragraph above for more on this), I realized just how much work mappers put into their stuff, and how much love and effort goes into video games in general. I sat down and decided to make a tribute to their work. What I made was the first version of A Halo CE Roadtrip.
A Halo CE Roadtrip- Summer '05
_8R3tTb2n2g
Now, to discuss the third major project of high school, Dust to Dust. Coming off the heels of Precipice and the majority of the Rabbit filming, I was looking for a new project when I met [EJ]Bean, known then as Hailstorm, on Gruntmaps. He had an idea for a "war of the worlds miniseries" which sounded sort of cool. I wrote a few pages, he liked it, and the project grew from there. The first trailer was filmed completely from scratch, and had been written before I even joined the group(duo?). As such it was cool, but lacked any real plot, except for a few scenes that I had written.
Dust to Dust Trailer #1- Fall '05
MaBEIDdqc3I
I'm going to take a chance and upload the entire script for Dust to Dust. I made it into a .pdf file, so people can read it, and I theoretically can keep my claim on the words themselves. Looking back on it, it isn't brilliant, has terrible formatting, and lacks a whole lot of character development. However, I'm still proud of it, and I hope whoever reads it likes it. It can be read in just a few hours- don't be overwhelmed by the length.
Dust to Dust Script- Fall '05 through Summer '06
http://www.filefront.com/15033779/Dust%20to%20Dust%20Master.pdf
To save this poor first post, I will now go to a "part 2" post.