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Jobe

Alriddoch has indeed been responsible for his trailer's created to assist WorldForger's with tutorials which I am sure have been of great aid to many people here in the project. I personally feel that it is now time to create a rather-over-dramatized-video-advertising-the-worldforge-project-and-enticing-people-to-join.

This idea came as a misunderstanding, I will admit, when I was talking with Alistair... But I don't think it's a bad idea and making a trailer shouldn't cause too much harm.

I believe that we should base this figurative commercial in a text-picture way. Here's an example:

One of the only objections with this particular trailer is it's very much aimed at somebody who wants to play a game, as opposed to make one - and as far as I know, that's not what worldforge is about. Anyone and everyone can contribute in some way, as far as I'm concerned.

Now, I'm going to of course vote to be one of the (hopefully many) composers for the trailer. Alistair recommended creating the music first, so I'm working on that now - but I think it's important for myself and others to get an idea of what the music's supposed to do/say, and I need everybody else's help with that. For example, how long will this trailer be? 30 seconds? 2 minutes? What will it include? (we need a list). Images of grasslands, docks, people yes... But any interaction? Any fighting? Any editing? (I would suggest all of those).

If you'd like, we could have one that's like the Ocarina of Time (a commercial) and another which is a bit longer, and more informative, with a narrator and a script describing key features about WorldForge: and we can attach them together or use them separately.

I personally think this is a cool idea because I like composing music for trailers - not that I do so very often.

So yeah, I think first, shall we all decide on a list of things we want the video to show?

dean_bouvier

I like this idea, although to be honest I definitely look to approach my video's in a cinematic fashion, where its laid out as a story board concept, in some cases involving players helping by playing roles in the action, while others recording flying and panning visuals of the event.

I can actually think of a great number of videos I plan to create in the future, but these all generally require work of other nature to be completely first.

One Video I think would be very interesting would might be a GSOC compilation video, which compiles all the advancements the students made this year. Just a thought.

Jobe

Well whatever you feel is necessary. I am but a composer so I'm very selfish about the music side of things. I too prefer the cinematic, storyboard fashion, as opposed to Al's fashion - the former is for advertising and the latter for informing. They're two very different disciplines but from what I've seen us WorldForgers lake the cinematic, trailer-type videos.

I'd like to sway a little attention to my latest post also, http://orchestraforge.blog.com/ I've basically made some sample pieces of how the music might go. Keep in mind I found this very difficult because I had nothing to work with visually.

And yes, the last bit of the last piece was intentional.

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