Indie 3dmm - Page 3

Ryan Omega · 08-28-2005, 09:23 PM

My friends are bugging me to do some of my writings as movies, so I'm stuck with doing that right now, 'cuz one of those 'friends' is my teacher. Any good voice actors want some major roles?

Ned · 08-28-2005, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by Ryan Omega
My friends are bugging me to do some of my writings as movies, so I'm stuck with doing that right now, 'cuz one of those 'friends' is my teacher. Any good voice actors want some major roles?

PM me.

Salter · 08-28-2005, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Barton
The answer to that Andrew is that while 3dmm is stuck in these annoyingly dead times, a newbie's best bet is to keep on trucking with what they personally want to do and achieve with 3dmm.

I know what you're talking about, Jon, but what I mean is more on a technical basis. I don't give a care if people don't like artistic decisions. A film is based off of such artistic decisions that is completely up to the director.
My point was that as far as the technical nature of the movie goes, that's where the community and vets come in handy. There wasn't much I could do without a drastic redirection, but with Angel after the first test Jon did I went back and added some more depth to the visuals, and improved what I could with the film being almost finished. So, technical reviews help.

Jon Barton · 08-28-2005, 10:01 PM

In that respect then what you just need to be more aware of is properly hyping the movie and getting a lot of technical reviewers in. I honestly think the board needs its own section for this in particular. At least you're intelligent enough to be aware of the follow-up work on a finished movie.

Aaron Haynes · 08-28-2005, 10:19 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Barton
He's not wrong. The theory works.

No, he's right, it's a good way to gain a foothold in the community. To a degree early movies are always going to be overlooked, so going ahead with an epic film that depends entirely on word of mouth can be discouraging and not the best choice. But the idea that 3DMM movies have to be under a certain length, and anything above that length is overburdened is just stupid.

Jon Barton · 08-28-2005, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Aaron Haynes
No, he's right

:| I know... I was pointing out he was right.

Demented Ferret · 08-28-2005, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by Warren Wagner
I would love to read it man. I am always looking for people to read my scripts, so I know how ya feel.

God doesn't want me to write this movie, I have had 2 power outages in the last year; one was when I writing a lot of stuff for Against All Odds and I lost most of everything, the other was today; when I was rewriting a lot of stuff for Against All Odds. I should really use Word and not NOTEPAD.exe; but I just find it far easier that way.

...That and I should save.

- On the plus side, I've just finished re-re-hand-writing everything for about 4 hours in the candle-light, with Classical Music on my portable radio and a glass of port for the effect and 'motivation'. It was grand.

I'm guessing the script'll take a couple of weeks to write - I'll keep anyone who's interested updated.

Aaron Haynes · 08-28-2005, 10:31 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Barton
:| I know... I was pointing out he was right.

I know, I was agreeing with you that he was right. I said "No" as a colloquialism, like, "No, I definitely get where you're coming from, but [elaboration]."

Gah. Maybe this is an American thing. It's hard to explain.

Jon Barton · 08-28-2005, 10:33 PM

You yanks and your pesky yank slangs and your stupid yank faces. Balls to you.

Ontopic, I'm writing a script for this at the moment.

Ryan Omega · 08-28-2005, 10:34 PM

Gee, never knew how much we were isolated from the world in terms of our awesome slang and stuff. But I'm kinda talking out of my butt right now.

James Burgon · 08-28-2005, 11:09 PM

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Originally posted by Aaron Haynes
Now this is retarded.

I'm not saying shorten movies for the point of it. But most long 3dmm movies could shave minutes off.

Aaron Haynes · 08-28-2005, 11:43 PM

In that case I jumped the gun on you, sorry about that. Editing becomes much harder and more nebulous as movies get longer and more ambitious. But sometimes a movie's length is integral to its storytelling, characterization, or pacing consistency. You could shave/tweak a good 5-10 minutes off of Moderately Confused and have a better, tighter film, but you couldn't get it under an hour and still have the same experience.

Ned · 08-28-2005, 11:47 PM

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Originally posted by Jon Barton
You yanks and your pesky yank slangs and your stupid yank faces.

American English rules. English English is for the birds.

James Burgon · 08-28-2005, 11:55 PM

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Originally posted by Aaron Haynes
In that case I jumped the gun on you, sorry about that. Editing becomes much harder and more nebulous as movies get longer and more ambitious. But sometimes a movie's length is integral to its storytelling, characterization, or pacing consistency. You could shave/tweak a good 5-10 minutes off of Moderately Confused and have a better, tighter film, but you couldn't get it under an hour and still have the same experience.

Yeah, like, how long was Shit Happens. I swear that train-wreck coulda been shorter by alot.

Jon Barton · 08-28-2005, 11:57 PM

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Originally posted by Ned Carlson
American English rules.

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

And yes Shit Happens could be a LOT shorter.

Ned · 08-28-2005, 11:58 PM

Dah, just kidding. Gotta' love all you Brits.

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08-28-2005, 09:23 PM	#51
Ryan Omega Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,808	My friends are bugging me to do some of my writings as movies, so I'm stuck with doing that right now, 'cuz one of those 'friends' is my teacher. Any good voice actors want some major roles?

08-28-2005, 10:01 PM	#54
Jon Barton Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,103	In that respect then what you just need to be more aware of is properly hyping the movie and getting a lot of technical reviewers in. I honestly think the board needs its own section for this in particular. At least you're intelligent enough to be aware of the follow-up work on a finished movie.

08-28-2005, 10:33 PM	#59
Jon Barton Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,103	You yanks and your pesky yank slangs and your stupid yank faces. Balls to you. Ontopic, I'm writing a script for this at the moment.

08-28-2005, 10:34 PM	#60
Ryan Omega Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 2,808	Gee, never knew how much we were isolated from the world in terms of our awesome slang and stuff. But I'm kinda talking out of my butt right now.

08-28-2005, 11:43 PM	#62
Aaron Haynes Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 15,125	In that case I jumped the gun on you, sorry about that. Editing becomes much harder and more nebulous as movies get longer and more ambitious. But sometimes a movie's length is integral to its storytelling, characterization, or pacing consistency. You could shave/tweak a good 5-10 minutes off of Moderately Confused and have a better, tighter film, but you couldn't get it under an hour and still have the same experience.