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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Clawandfang on March 23, 2008, 01:36:13 pm
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I made this in an hour or so, throwing random things together to see what it would look like. I meant it as a fan-made trailer for the freespace games, so if you have a few spare minutes I would be really grateful for any feedback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0Mh74xn9g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN0Mh74xn9g)
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Hm...
The Good:
- Pretty background
The Bad:
- Not much else
Recommendations:
I would say that it needs some action. Some comm chatter to listen to and some empty space background isn't very interesting, especially if this is meant as a trailer for people who haven't heard of the terms before, its kinda pointless (ie. "WTF is a Lucifer?").
The video started out excellent, building the atmosphere, but then, it just never takes it anywhere. I was expecting a cut to the action the whole time...but no such thing happened. Instead, I got more and more chatter, *yawn*. The best way to improve, is to cut the empty space/chatter in half, make it more and more messy chatter (lots of voices on top of each other), then pan the camera around to a massive battle (preferably hi-def using HTL models/textures, with pretty beams, projectiles, flak etc flying everywhere). Though, that is noticable harder to do...but it would make the trailer epic.
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Duly noted. How about stealing the Battle of Deneb from the Freespace 2 opening movie?