RESIDENT EVIL & HALO - Tribute's
sgt.waffles
Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
Join Date: 2007-09-22 Member: 62406Banned
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Please keep in mind that for my Halo tribute it was very early in the Halo 3 development so i thought that was when it was going to be released until they said they were pushing it back until 2007.
Halo tribute
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iDS_WImwg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iDS_WImwg</a>
Resident Evil tribute (so far i've gotten much appraisel for this video, i hope you like it ^_^)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnYDIX48gc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnYDIX48gc</a>
Feel free to post your thoughts but please keep it at a mature level, AKA no flaming or ranting.
Halo tribute
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iDS_WImwg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3iDS_WImwg</a>
Resident Evil tribute (so far i've gotten much appraisel for this video, i hope you like it ^_^)
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnYDIX48gc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnYDIX48gc</a>
Feel free to post your thoughts but please keep it at a mature level, AKA no flaming or ranting.
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Comments
Ummm, thanks?
BTW, i only had a few clips in the one halo tribute of gaming montages..
My statement still stands...
I also like the part where the footage goes black, and the text shows.
Please, keep em comming!
also: Yeah, consider all the comments Sonic - you probably just don't understand video art.
I also like the part where the footage goes black, and the text shows.
Please, keep em comming!
also: Yeah, consider all the comments Sonic - you probably just don't understand video art.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
... Are you being sarcastic or do you actualy like them?
cause if you do then thank you.
I think the composition is awesome - you have the right amount of ups and downs in speed and tempo, and it really ties up in the end.
Also, do you think you could make a Halo 2 tribute? I would love to see pure footage from that. I think you should use that "mad world" song, it really sets the mood.
I think the composition is awesome - you have the right amount of ups and downs in speed and tempo, and it really ties up in the end.
Also, do you think you could make a Halo 2 tribute? I would love to see pure footage from that. I think you should use that "mad world" song, it really sets the mood.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
sure, i'd be happy to make more video's.
If you want i'll even make a half life 1 or 2 tribute if you really want me to make more.
Although there is going to be a difference between them in quality since i downloaded the video's and put them together, and i'm probably going to use fraps since i don't have a movie making program that can convert source files.
Halo: The beginning image here is the evocative "Bungie" logo, but you've gone much farther. You've made a statement right from the get-go by changing the blue dot over the "i" in Bungie to a green dot. Why did you do this? I have to confess that my powers of analysis are not strong enough: given that much of my academic life has been focused on literary criticism, it's beyond my abilities to fathom why you've made this change. All I know is that clearly there is a purpose and that this purpose is profound.
After this striking image we see simple purple text: "they struck without warning." Neglecting even to capitalize "they" only brings to the forefront the speed and ferocity of the strike referenced, which can only mean not just the Covenant's attack but, in a larger, more metaphorical sense, the assault that the Halo franchise made on our conceptions of reality. This text sums all that up, and more importantly it has a cool 3d effect that must have taken many, many mouse clicks in your editing software.
This is followed by a tracking shot of a couple banshees, watched by a Covenant soldier. It should be pretty obvious even to an idiot how profound this is, and I'll just let it stand by itself without any more said on the topic.
Once again, purple text. "billions have died" sans punctuation. Yes, billions have died, but it's a statement on man's inhumanity to man that the billions don't even warrant capitalization or punctuation or more than a couple seconds of onscreen purple text flashed before some more footage from a video game. Truly deep.
A close up shot of Master Chief's butt, followed by a pan upwards to reveal the top part of his butt, and later his head although we cut away from that about as soon as the butt's not centered. By combining this with the pounding bass of the song that cuts in with basically no warning, you evoke a subconscious link between "pounding" and "butt," something that penetrates deep to the heart of America's pysche, a pysche ravaged by the divisions between sexuality and gender. Striking.
"you" is so simple, so bare, so quickly flashed onscreen, that it might not even be there at all. Is that what it really said? What does it mean? The viewer is left considering whether "they" truly even exist, an existential question masterfully addressed early and ably.
Master Chief watching a ship fly through a canyon. I can only assume this to be an expansion of the earlier link between "butt" and "pounding," with the canyon representing unexplored aspects of the viewer's sexuality that they have been unwilling to address, the ship representing the exploration of said feelings, and Master Chief watching as an example of the ultimate attitude of approval, or at least tolerance, that authority is forced to accept in light of changing societal mores.
Alpha footage of ugly soldiers running around animals eventually cut from the game. Definitely a statement of the intrasigence of nature: what is here one day and promised for the next may eventually turn out to be nothing but lies, a mist blown away by the winds of time, truth, change, and the exploration of butt pounding.
A long stretch of black. Probably to give the viewer time to reflect on the immense profundity of what they've already experienced and to prepare them for what is next.
Flood zombies walking: simply aliens, or commentary on those aspects of the population that have not yet realized the necessity of embracing the exploration of their ready-to-burgeon sexuality via butt pounding? Intense.
More blackness. Ditto.
Soldiers standing still firing at each other. While obstensibly a gunfight, the lighting and editing of this scene is more closely related to that of a rave. Equating humanity's baser instincts of fighting (contrasted brilliantly with the duality of aliens, who presumably do not share humanity's instincts at all) with those of mating (clearly the implied undertones of a rave) give rise to a schism that perfectly illustrates the strife between old-society mores and new-society butt pounding sexuality exploration.
Another black screen. A suggestion of conflict, I think.
A banshee, representing new sexuality via butt poundage, flies through smoke, representing the real but in reality transitory opposition to new schools of though, and blows up a tank, representing Corporate America's refusal to recognize societal shifts unless it is able to hijack them in order to make money.
Black screen again. I think this one represents suffering and pain.
Master Chief spinning around like an idiot firing a flamethrower at nothing. That this is a reference to the futility of futile actions is all I feel needs to be said on this topic.
Again, blackness. This time it's a symbol of the power of love versus the responsibility one has to humanity as a whole.
Someone shooting the plasma launcher thing in multiplayer. A stark departure from earlier footage, this probably represents the other parts of humanity, those not addressed in the issues this video brings to the forefront of our consciousness.
Black again. Seriously man do you get anything out of these stretches of nothing because I don't.
Weird, old footage of Master Chief firing at nothing with a weapon held at his crotch. Too obvious for me to analyze, I'll simply refer the reader to Freud.
"EARTH AND COVANENT WILL JOIN SIDES" Wow. First, it's purple and bubbly this time, in all caps. A stark departure from the earlier text style. Amazing. I also notice how you have chosen deliberately to misspell "Covenant," the only multisyllabic word you use in the entire video (and likely that week). I'm thinking this is an indictment of our educational system's conflict between rote learning and innovation which strikes a bargain that does not accomplish either goal.
The player zooms in on a Banshee on a far away hill. Nothing much happening. A meditation on futility, methinks.
"AND MAKE THEIR LAST STAND WITH THE FLOOD" With the Flood! While traditional Halo lore suggests the fight would be <i>against</i> the Flood, by folding them into the alliance which is obstensibly designed to defeat them, you show how the greatest enemy to our progress can be the obstacles that we ourselves create.
Walking around a map, suggesting the movements of a lab rat, under observation from scientists, with cancer. The rat, not the scientists. They're fine, thank goodness.
More black. Are you padding the video out or something?
Game footage: Wow. Just WOW. My mind is BLOWN. That footage of Halo, with the music in the background, makes me look at everything in a different way. Holy CRAP.
I also like how the video ends at 1:44 and the remaining 1:53 is wasted. Wait, I don't like that. I don't like any of this. This is awful. God, that you can't even tell for yourself that pasting a bunch of Halo stuff while a song plays in the background (with inexplicable black screens in between) isn't by any definition praiseworthy is almost as sad as...
Just kidding! You're a genius. I had you going there, didn't I? But no, I really meant all the earlier stuff I said. I'd send this, plus the other videos (Apocalypse 1, 2, and 3 and the Resident Evil one) to some directors or film schools. They'll recognize exactly what talents you have and reward you justly. I'd go for Coppola, first: he made Apocalypse Now, which shares a word with 3 of your videos.
Halo: The beginning image here is the evocative "Bungie" logo, but you've gone much farther. You've made a statement right from the get-go by changing the blue dot over the "i" in Bungie to a green dot. Why did you do this? I have to confess that my powers of analysis are not strong enough: given that much of my academic life has been focused on literary criticism, it's beyond my abilities to fathom why you've made this change. All I know is that clearly there is a purpose and that this purpose is profound.
After this striking image we see simple purple text: "they struck without warning." Neglecting even to capitalize "they" only brings to the forefront the speed and ferocity of the strike referenced, which can only mean not just the Covenant's attack but, in a larger, more metaphorical sense, the assault that the Halo franchise made on our conceptions of reality. This text sums all that up, and more importantly it has a cool 3d effect that must have taken many, many mouse clicks in your editing software.
This is followed by a tracking shot of a couple banshees, watched by a Covenant soldier. It should be pretty obvious even to an idiot how profound this is, and I'll just let it stand by itself without any more said on the topic.
Once again, purple text. "billions have died" sans punctuation. Yes, billions have died, but it's a statement on man's inhumanity to man that the billions don't even warrant capitalization or punctuation or more than a couple seconds of onscreen purple text flashed before some more footage from a video game. Truly deep.
A close up shot of Master Chief's butt, followed by a pan upwards to reveal the top part of his butt, and later his head although we cut away from that about as soon as the butt's not centered. By combining this with the pounding bass of the song that cuts in with basically no warning, you evoke a subconscious link between "pounding" and "butt," something that penetrates deep to the heart of America's pysche, a pysche ravaged by the divisions between sexuality and gender. Striking.
"you" is so simple, so bare, so quickly flashed onscreen, that it might not even be there at all. Is that what it really said? What does it mean? The viewer is left considering whether "they" truly even exist, an existential question masterfully addressed early and ably.
Master Chief watching a ship fly through a canyon. I can only assume this to be an expansion of the earlier link between "butt" and "pounding," with the canyon representing unexplored aspects of the viewer's sexuality that they have been unwilling to address, the ship representing the exploration of said feelings, and Master Chief watching as an example of the ultimate attitude of approval, or at least tolerance, that authority is forced to accept in light of changing societal mores.
Alpha footage of ugly soldiers running around animals eventually cut from the game. Definitely a statement of the intrasigence of nature: what is here one day and promised for the next may eventually turn out to be nothing but lies, a mist blown away by the winds of time, truth, change, and the exploration of butt pounding.
A long stretch of black. Probably to give the viewer time to reflect on the immense profundity of what they've already experienced and to prepare them for what is next.
Flood zombies walking: simply aliens, or commentary on those aspects of the population that have not yet realized the necessity of embracing the exploration of their ready-to-burgeon sexuality via butt pounding? Intense.
More blackness. Ditto.
Soldiers standing still firing at each other. While obstensibly a gunfight, the lighting and editing of this scene is more closely related to that of a rave. Equating humanity's baser instincts of fighting (contrasted brilliantly with the duality of aliens, who presumably do not share humanity's instincts at all) with those of mating (clearly the implied undertones of a rave) give rise to a schism that perfectly illustrates the strife between old-society mores and new-society butt pounding sexuality exploration.
Another black screen. A suggestion of conflict, I think.
A banshee, representing new sexuality via butt poundage, flies through smoke, representing the real but in reality transitory opposition to new schools of though, and blows up a tank, representing Corporate America's refusal to recognize societal shifts unless it is able to hijack them in order to make money.
Black screen again. I think this one represents suffering and pain.
Master Chief spinning around like an idiot firing a flamethrower at nothing. That this is a reference to the futility of futile actions is all I feel needs to be said on this topic.
Again, blackness. This time it's a symbol of the power of love versus the responsibility one has to humanity as a whole.
Someone shooting the plasma launcher thing in multiplayer. A stark departure from earlier footage, this probably represents the other parts of humanity, those not addressed in the issues this video brings to the forefront of our consciousness.
Black again. Seriously man do you get anything out of these stretches of nothing because I don't.
Weird, old footage of Master Chief firing at nothing with a weapon held at his crotch. Too obvious for me to analyze, I'll simply refer the reader to Freud.
"EARTH AND COVANENT WILL JOIN SIDES" Wow. First, it's purple and bubbly this time, in all caps. A stark departure from the earlier text style. Amazing. I also notice how you have chosen deliberately to misspell "Covenant," they only multisyllabic word you use in the entire video (and likely that week). I'm thinking this is an indictment of our educational system's conflict between rote learning and innovation which strikes a bargain that does not accomplish either goal.
The player zooms in on a Banshee on a far away hill. Nothing much happening. A meditation on futility, methinks.
"AND MAKE THEIR LAST STAND WITH THE FLOOD" With the Flood! While traditional Halo lore suggests the fight would be <i>against</i> the Flood, by folding them into the alliance which is obstensibly designed to defeat them, you show how the greatest enemy to our progress can be the obstacles that we ourselves create.
Walking around a map, suggesting the movements of a lab rat, under observation from scientists, with cancer. The rat, not the scientists. They're fine, thank goodness.
More black. Are you padding the video out or something?
Game footage: Wow. Just WOW. My mind is BLOWN. That footage of Halo, with the music in the background, makes me look at everything in a different way. Holy CRAP.
I also like how the video ends at 1:44 and the remaining 1:53 is wasted. Wait, I don't like that. I don't like any of this. This is awful. God, that you can't even tell for yourself that pasting a bunch of Halo stuff while a song plays in the background (with inexplicable black screens in between) isn't by any definition praiseworthy is almost as sad as...
Just kidding! You're a genious. I had you going there, didn't I? But no, I really meant all the earlier stuff I said. I'd send this, plus the other videos (Apocalypse 1, 2, and 3 and the Resident Evil one) to some directors or film schools. They'll recognize exactly what talents you have and reward you justly. I'd go for Coppola, first: he made Apocalypse Now, which shares a word with 3 of your videos.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I am exrtoardinarily generous towards your appraisel of the Halo tribute but all of the video footage was downloaded and is not my own which i stated at the end of my video. i tampered with some of the footage and synchronized it all of it trying to give it my own personnel feel although, and did get much appraisel from friends and family from some of my own PERSONNEL projects which i have not uplaoded on to youtube yet and don't plan to.
I will admit that i did more work on the Resident evil one than the Halo one and worked immensely hard trying to get the synchronization right and that newly released trailer footage of RE5 (which was in 2006 mind you). So although most of the things you said about my video in your review were true about certain things i did do, the footage was not my own.
Although i am a little concerned about your obcession with butt pounding...
I think you're being a little too modest. I know you didn't actually make all the footage yourself by hand, but that's not the point at all. Does Steven Spielberg make all his footage by hand? No, he just sits in the director's chair, and makes other people act out the words that some OTHER people wrote. The genius is in the direction, and that, my friend, is your role in this video, and I think your role in life. It is your calling, if I can say that. I definitely feel a deep, personal connection with you after watching this video. You truly nailed the "personal" feel: anyone who watches this will know as much as they need to know about you, and nothing more. You've left your imprint, so to speak, using just a few clips stolen from other people and a song also taken from someone else.
<!--quoteo(post=1652080:date=Sep 25 2007, 04:54 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 25 2007, 04:54 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652080"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I will admit that i did more work on the Resident evil one than the Halo one and worked immensely hard trying to get the synchronization right and that newly released trailer footage of RE5 (which was in 2006 mind you). So although most of the things you said about my video in your review were true about certain things i did do, the footage was not my own.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I can definitely understand. I know how hard it is to sync images up with music; they're both moving, but sometimes one moves faster than the other, or one moves slower, or maybe they both move at the same pace but they don't quite match. It's a real challenge and I think it's something that all directors have to struggle with. If you watch the director's commentary for "Star Wars" for example George Lucas talks about how he almost went crazy trying to sync up the lightsaber fight with his favorite Beatles song, and eventually just said "screw it" and made John Williams write some music. He calls this the greatest failure of his life. You're also totally right about that new RE5 footage. 2006 is practically yesterday. To meld that seamlessly with the rest of your Resident Evil footage must have taken a huge amount of work above and beyond what it already did. I think it was famous director Francis Ford Coppola who talked time and time again about the difficulty of incorporating footage that was less than a year old.
<!--quoteo(post=1652080:date=Sep 25 2007, 04:54 PM:name=sgt.waffles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sgt.waffles @ Sep 25 2007, 04:54 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1652080"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Although i am a little concerned about your obcession with butt pounding...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Oh, you flatter me, but I'm really only bringing to light the messages you yourself have encoded in these videos. Like any artist, you combine the medium with your talents to deliver the idea inherent in the art, and it's up to the public to correctly synthesize it. I just hope that with my words I've helped a few others to realize what's gone into your work and what the final product truly amounts to.
Also: How did you do the 3D text? I don't know if it is 3D but it looks the way, what program do you use?
Also, could you make a Half-life 1 tribute? I would love to see that, I love HL and if you made one, I would be kneedeep in joy.
i'm still torn on whether he's an elaborate troll of a very real retard
either way he's a terrible poster
And Sgt. Waffles, if you truly failed to spot that blatant sarcasm... I weep for you.
Also: How did you do the 3D text? I don't know if it is 3D but it looks the way, what program do you use?
Also, could you make a Half-life 1 tribute? I would love to see that, I love HL and if you made one, I would be kneedeep in joy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think it would be cooler to have a Blue Shift tribute. Half-Life is neat but I liked Blue Shift a lot more. It was an expansion that suprassed the original, so to speak.
Needs more drug induced hallucination.
either way he's a terrible poster<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And that's practically an expert opinion.
Also, your grammatical typo was excellent.
Definitely.
Was I the only one who thought HL was a shallow game? Blue shift really turned the franchise around, showing what great storytelling, and awesome game play features a video game can muster.
Please make a cool video about blueshift.
Also, your grammatical typo was excellent.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
i was tempted to correct it but it fits so well
Also: How did you do the 3D text? I don't know if it is 3D but it looks the way, what program do you use?
Also, could you make a Half-life 1 tribute? I would love to see that, I love HL and if you made one, I would be kneedeep in joy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sure, but with my new computer and all i won't have as many resources so they may lack.
OH, and don't you jsut love all the trolls coming into this topic?
I am glad you got a new computer, but I am sorry that you lack resources. If you want resources you can maybe borrow some of my resources, I have plenty of resources.
I am glad you got a new computer, but I am sorry that you lack resources. If you want resources you can maybe borrow some of my resources, I have plenty of resources.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
LawL?
lol, joking, but seriously, i just have to re install all my junk and if you guys REALLY honestly, with no sarcasm included, want me to make another tribute to a game than just say so, although with lots of things interfering i don't think i'm gonna churn out a new vid by next week or anything.
According to <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=101315&st=40" target="_blank">TWGXIII</a> Im_Lost hates waffles. And unfortunately for you most people here trust Im_Lost's judgment.