Re: [CLOSED] Expedition The Mysterious Orb - Now in Production!
Sure Cooked Cat 
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Forums - Bricks in Motion » Pre-Production » [CLOSED] Expedition The Mysterious Orb - Now in Production!
Sure Cooked Cat You know my email
Okay, sorry to send this thread terribly off topic...but I took your advice and posted my old Johnny Thunder here. It's just so people can see how far I've come since 2011.
BACK ON TOPIC:
So are you going to try and get british or australian accents, 'cause that would be really cool. Also, what will you do your scriptwriting on, Celtx? That's a great site and makes it really easy to share it with other people if you get a few people working on the script.
Just wondering...what program/website did you use for the soundtrack?
So, for programs, I use MonkeyJam for animation, and GIMP for effects, that I go through and edit frame by frame. Thus, I don't need a really advanced editing program... (because all of the animations are already saved as .avi's from MonkeyJam) SO, I use Windows Movies maker to simply layer the Videos and sounds... However, I do often dabble in a program I bought, Pinnacle Studios. Overall, this film will be editied in each program lol (I like to use freeware, as I've used it for so long, it's hard to adjust to the newer stuff)
For scriptwriting, I use (with what I've said before, just guess) Microsoft Word. I do have celtix, but again, after having used Word since 2004, I'm not easily making the switch... And besides, I already know how to format an official script...
OK, ON THE SUBJECT OF VOICES:
There is a very talented TLFScarheart on youtube. She's not on this site, (yet anyway) but makes brickfilms nevertheless. She's made them since 2008, and they don't have the best stop-motion, but the lighting, camera angles, and stories (stories especially) are very great! She specializes in Johnny Thunder and Alpha Team movies.
The reason I mention her: She WILL (Beyond doubt) play Pippin. She has an american accent, but can also do many others, and sound totally different! So, she MAY play Jing Lee. (But I'm only about 92% sure)
I will FOR SURE voice Baron Von Barron (I love doing villains, and I just love my representation of him) For Johnny Thunder, I have perfected a realistic (and not offensive) Australian accent. (But again 92% sure I'll play Johnny)
So, that leaves (in the script so far) Harry (but again, I naturally have an American accent), Chang Wu (the Evil Chinese Emperor), an unnamed professor (kind of like Dr. Kilroy), and Dr. Kilroy...
So send me an audition if you want to be in the movie. For the characters I'm not sure about, I'll review you, and consider (but no promises). However, to whomever auditions, I CAN promise that, at the least, you will voice characters in the background (like in an airport, etc.)
Last edited by Dyland (November 27, 2012 (09:52am))
Ok, so I understand what programs you use for animation stuff, but what do you use for sounds and music (you're making the music yourself, right?)
LG501, I use a CASIO WK-200 electronic keyboard, which has over 500 different instrumental sounds. (I've had trouble with using recording programs pick up it's MIDI files correctly) SO, I use a DYNEX mic to record each track individually in Audacity... Then I can remove the (almost non-existant with this mic) background noise, and enhance the sound, syncing all of the seperate tracks (played seperatly with a metronome at the same speed) together...
Then I'm done, I save it all as a two sterio-track .wav and listen to them (or use them in a movie)
I hope this answers your question.
I AM working with Cooked Cat on the soundtrack (he will do some pieces too, kind of like how Hans Zimmer worked with James Newton Howard on The Dark Knight soundtrack) So, you can ask him on what he does too. (Which is most likely different then how I do it... But both sound good )
EDIT:
Never mind.
JonnDthunDer, are you talking about your offer, or about the accents?
The PM about the series that started "I was thinking about how cool it would be"
Never mind, I see you've read it now. It had a strange picture...
I kind of liked the thought... And if after I finish this movie, you start an "almost like spin-off series" (NOT titled EXPEDITION) It would to be cool to see a "parallel" JT series... But, it would be hard to do, you're right.
Yeah, I wouldn't call it expedition (but look at what I called the one I made in 2011 "Johnny Thunder: Desert Expedition - 1st Map"). That old series I made was about the part with mummies and egypt and stuff. All that's left now is Dino and other parts to Orient Expedition...
Maybe you'll start a flood of Johnny Thunder themed brickfilms! 
JonnDthunDer, that's just what I hope to do
hey, I know a little chinese, so, keep me in mind...
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