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EHmovies wrote:

no i just wanted to no what i was up against cause lets face it macs are so much better and i knew that all of you would be entering other wise you wouldnt be on here so. long live the mac

I'm working on a co-produced film to enter into this contest.  I'm using PCs and my co-producer, PWC, is using a MAC.  There are some downsides to using Macs for ameteur animation:

- Logitech's pro9000 webcam equivalent for Mac does not allow for manual focus.  I'm guessing in general there are fewer webcam models available for Mac to choose from.
- animation and video editing software for Mac can be expensive while there are many freeware and open-source capture and video editing software available for PC (MonkeyJam, HeliumFrog, VirtualDub to name a few I'm using extensively). 

This is my first film using Helium Frog (2.06 beta 3) as my primary capture software, and it is working much better than Animator DV Simple+ with my QC Por9000 (AnDVSimp+ seemed to introduce a good bit of light flicker I think from faulty frame averaging with the Pro9000).  Kudos to Martin Price on this little app and for his relentless support to get the app working on one of my PCs that was having some issues with it.


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script complete at 14 pages (14!, God, please help us finish this on time!), sets essentially complete, dialog 100% recorded, filming ~40% complete, 2 out of ?? special effects shots complete, ~ 4:15 completed.

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Show me yours if you want to - Darkman

I did like your seeing your sets. Mine have been a bit hit and miss. I have been taking photo's with a still camera while animating there's too many to post here. If anyone else is interested after the contest I might stick them all in the film thread for "CYCLIC"
I suspect that some people will want to know how I did some of the animation and often the only way to explain it is with some photo's.
As usual I bit off more than I can chew and will be lucky to finish in time.

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Okay so I have finished my 10 page script, and I am unlikely to finish it in time.

Its like at least 30 minutes worth of script.

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I NEED VOICES! If I don't get them, I can't animate! mini/sad

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I'll do a voice, Gn.

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I sent you a PM... mini/confused

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Ill see if i have time.

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ok...I have 32 seconds of animation...soon I'll have over 1 minute...

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right is anyone can do a good old male person voice that would be very helpful

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I was cleaning up some disk space and found my original (rejected) script brief for my STAR entry so I thought I'd share it.

A pirate’s mum is sick, she lives above the café in the hotel. On her deathbed the pirate returns to visit her. She forces the pirate son to agree to eat more fruit and veg and then she dies.
The gangsters have already been beating up the shop keeper down stairs and the shop keeper’s son throws one of the gangster’s through the window. The gangsters vow revenge.
They put a bomb in a banana and throw it into the fruit bin, during a drive by. This same bin the pirate steals and takes back to his ship.
The ships cook is preparing diner and a monkey steals the bomb filled banana and climbs to the top of the rigging. The cook now furious shoots at the monkey. Every shots misses the monkey but each time another dead parrot lands on the deck. Eventually he hits the monkey and the explosion sinks the ship.

Not a very good match for the theme (Space Time & Reality) which is why I rejected it. Anyway, I wrote a much better script for CYCLIC.

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when you want someone to scream in a film do you actually scream. because i think i would look pretty stupid screaming at a computer

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when you want someone to scream in a film do you actually scream. because i think i would look pretty stupid screaming at a computer

How do you think screams come into existence in the first place? People looking stupid screaming into a little microphone! mini/mrgreen

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EHmovies wrote:

when you want someone to scream in a film do you actually scream. because i think i would look pretty stupid screaming at a computer

Try screaming "Oh no! Run from the reaches of the horrid monster!" at your computer a full dozen times on a saturday afternoon when you have three siblings outside the door windering if you're going insane. Simply screaming, my friend, is nothing. mini/lol

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EHmovies wrote:

when you want someone to scream in a film do you actually scream. because i think i would look pretty stupid screaming at a computer

On the flip side, it sounds pretty stupid hearing someone do that fake "whisper scream." The actual act of screaming at the computer would be short-lived, so you'll only look stupid for a short while. I think that's a reasonable tradeoff for better credibility to your film.

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I will real scream I just try to do it when no one is around becouse fake screaming is one of the worst things EVER.  The key is to be far enough away from the microphone not to peak it, but peaking sound is not quite as bad as fake screaming

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thanks smeagol!

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thanks i think i will sit there an record my self screaming one day. i agrea that the whisper scream of "oh no the monster ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" is not very good. also REALLY NEED A VOICE ACTOR who can do a really good old mans voice. i know i can ask my grandad or someone but he doesnt sound old. just like a normal person:/

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If your film does not have all the credits that are really necessary (such as the name of the music used in the film), is it okay to put the rest of the credits in the description next the download link in the e-mail we send to you Smeagol?

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If the sounds you're using are allowed to not be credited within the work then yes, that's OK, my guess though is that this would be unusual if there are stipulations for credits on the sounds.  (For example, Incompetech requires you to obtain a non-attribution license if you're doing something like that)  If the creator of the sounds doesn't require credit to be given, neither do I, however music must be credited, and it should be credited in the film if the artist requires this.


I'm noticing that most of the questions here ask whether or not entrants really have to follow particular rules.

As a rule of thumb, YES, you really do have follow ALL of the rules.

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Oh man I have been sick for 2 days mini/sad

so I've lost 2 filming days mini/sad 7 days left until I'm off to france for 2 weeks. I gotta have the movie ready before that, for the composer.

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