Chase

On Tuesday last week (30th) we worked on one of the biggest and longest scenes in our machinema. It was the police chase scene. This involved 3 operators and. Jeff was the criminal whilst Phil and I were the policemen chasing after. Phil was also the cameraman.
After several takes we discovered that this particular scene was much more difficult than we ever anticipated. We never really thought of having the cars in the game having poor handling so in almost every scene we would find that at least one of us would always crash or have the car go out of the scene. This made getting a good take quite hard, even though we have many takes of this particular scenes we really only need to find one that has no one crashing into something or rolling/flipping their car. Also we thought at the time that even if we have 85% of the scene that worked well enough there was a very small chance that we could actually use any of it because it would be very difficult to cut and edit the scene and have a smooth transition into another scene.
However after spending almost 3 hours just on getting this scene done we have come to a happy conclusion with a take that we will be using in the movie.
So all is going well at the present within this week we should be looking at doing the last few scenes and editing, then getting our voices in and presenting.

I love cheese

This is a pic of us during the chase scene. If my apperance seems to be happy it is a lie.

Progress!!

Ok today My group finally got around to doing a little bit of recording with fraps on Vice City.

Fraps was pretty easy to use. Dingles gave us a pretty awesome trainer which allows us to spawn pretty much anything in the game at any time. Including , cars, helicopters, weather effects , ammo, guns etc. So it makes doing scenes pretty easy, we dont have to go over our footsteps to get cars that we might have damaged of blown up.

So yeah we should start having some pretty good footage within the next 2 weeks for maybe a presintation. who knows?

also this is the screenshot that dangles took (with my artistic direction)

Ok so today, I did some in depth character development. However most of this is purely for comical effect only, because all of the characters in our project do not really rely much on their background because we have no use for any pre history.

So anyway I guess that very little of this work has any point but it is nonetheless necessary and it is a good way of showing off my creative streak.

Have some screenshots.

Well then, its been awhile since Ive updated this blog, mostly due to the fact that we really haven't been doing that much lately. Yet, in the last 2 weeks or so we have been making some progress with our story. We decided to go with a story based off popular tv shows such us C.O.P.S , and other reality Tv shows. We have roughly around 9 or so rough scenes done. They are nothing to detailed or polished but it gives a very rough idea to the viewer.

So yeah , so it seems now that we have a pretty good start to the idea we might be able to make so pretty good progress.

Here are some of my favourite scene's.

Cops!?

Well I think that today we have come to a decision that we would stick with a crime/action storyline reminiscent of a TV show like "Cops".
We hope that this will be decision that we do not later regret due to unforseen situations in the future.
We know that we can use the many skin and mod packs for the game to our advantage without much worry.
So hopefully we will have a good and problem free time making this.