jtr7 on 2/2/2010 at 02:09
Unless you are prepared to do most of the work yourself, if not all, don't expect a productive response. Many have tried and failed long before they even began to pick up steam. In the meantime, if you are serious enough and looking to have some fun too, you should make test reels, practicing scenes with whatever you have, ignoring whatever you don't have, and keep honing the skills and gaining efficiency. :thumb::thumb::thumb: If anything, don't wait for a response and just do something, and keep doing it.
windwalker on 2/2/2010 at 09:08
Last night I visited my friends house and we talked for hours what we can do and what we can't. For a medieval stage, we have to go somewhere else, because we are living in the middle of a capital city. Fortunately I have a car and he knows around very well, because his girlfriend studies botanics and they go collecting some samples, and they know many places with some ruins etc.
They will search for a spesifically possible place till weekend, and I will work on some script, try to find some actors. Since I want to have a go at a thievish shot, I will need it to be dark, which brings into question about lights. I will need a potentially good lighting.
The shots that you have sent links has given me some good ideas; flames send a reddish radiation to digital recordings, creating a kind of red-filter shot. This, combined with darkness creates a good contrast between red and black. Not seen much in a thief game, I would have prefered colder, blue-ish sights, but maybe I can do it digitally later, by giving my encoder an order to change red's to blue's. I don't know if sony vegas has such an option yet; I will have to delve deeper.
Another good news; I just stumbled upon a bow in my office! In my birthday, my assistant has given it to me as a present and I have hanged it in the break room, and forgatten it there! Which means I now have a dagger, a cape, and a bow - with some arrows. The bow is quite silly, clearly something made just for show, quite cheap, but it's ok, will do the job.
Currently my idea is to have a ten second shot where our character moves in darkness, and aproaches an buildings enterance in the woods, where a torch is lit. The guard by the door keeps walking back and forth, and when he turns his back, our hooded figure rushes inside the building. (This particular thief will not be garret.)
Hope I can do at least this one.
jtr7 on 2/2/2010 at 09:19
Have fun, learn lots, entertain yourselves and your own ideas as you take on the challenges, and share the best stuff, and hopefully it will advertise for you! :cool:
windwalker on 2/2/2010 at 10:09
I haven't gone too deep but my initial search shows I can't share a video here directly, right? I don't have an host place currently, so I probably will have to use Youtube? Because I am downloading the "breaking point" currently. It's... very bad, actually, compared to normal films. Though when I think I made in a few hours (eight hours total, including everything) and it was my first try, it's fine. I doubt I will be able to add subtitles to it, though, befıore going home. So you will have to do with the scenes.
And thanks for the support!
jtr7 on 2/2/2010 at 11:18
YouTube is one place, but if you don't want just anybody and everybody to be able to see it, just upload the file to Mediafire.com. If you end up making several scenes, then a YouTube account might work better for feedback. :thumb:
