ARC video squad

[bionicgroin]

I'm interested to know who'd be down for the ARC making youtube videos. I got a little excited about the idea a few days ago and jizzed my pants started looking around for camera equipment I can borrow. First off I'd like to make it clear that I don't have, nor do I have access to, any working video cameras. The equipment I wanted to borrow has been liquidated so I can't borrow it anymore. Although I'm friends with megasteakman:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Megasteakman?blend=1&ob=5

...he's super busy and he can't produce your ideas. All he can do is offer advice and tutorials (which is still pretty good.)

So if the ARC's going to make videos they'll have to take lloyd kaufman's advice from the title of his how-to movie book:

http://www.lloydkaufman.com/books/myodm/

...Make your own damn movie!

That being said when I started off in the SFU film club in 2004 the best camera we had was a 2 megapixel mini DV handheld. Today in 2011, 2 megapixel cameras come standard on cell phones. The principals of making a fun video are the same whether you got a good camera or a shitty one. Since we're all beginners here a shitty camera suits our needs for the time being.

So lets do it in the butt, okay.

To make things easier to understand I'm going to summarize workflow in terms of DnD party structure.

Base Classes:

Camera Guy: This is whoever has the best camera or is most familiar with the best camera available. This remains true in professional video productions where cinematographers and DPs often rent themselves out with their expensive cameras.

Useful skills and feats: Photography, Lighting, Knowledge (camera technology)


Editor: This is whoever has the best computer with the best editing software. I'm not a mac guy but I have to admit that editing on a mac is often easier than using a PC. There's good editing software for linux based systems, and you can get by if you pirate the right stuff with a PC, but macs have the best free and pirated software.

Useful skills and feats: Computers, Online Piracy, Knowledge (codecs)


Idea Guy: Writers are the bards on a microscale video team - they're kind of useless. Usually the dialog is improvised and everyone pitches in ideas on shooting day. But sometimes there's a single creative force that pushes an idea forward or creates a fun idea that others build on - this is the Idea Guy.

Useful skills and feats: Improv Comedy, Writing, Storytelling


Talent: This can be anyone who can speak sentences or do anything interesting in front of a camera.

Useful skills and feats: Improv Comedy, Attention Whore, Dancing, Martial Arts, Acting



Normally the party roles blend into each other as some people can cover multiple tasks (multiclass). Eventually you can prestige class into things like Special Effects Guy or Sound Guy (requires levels as editor), Director (requires levels in Talent and Idea Guy), Videographer (levels in Camera Guy and Editor), Writer (levels as Idea Guy) ect.


Paul has a great idea for a webseries. A webseries sounds ambitious since it's a lot of work on a weekly basis, but if enough people are committed to the idea then it can totally happen.

What sounds like a good starting point would be aim for a 1-5 minute short that'll be shot in the period of one day and edited over one day or night. Setting a five minute limit is a good exercise in discipline and will also fit in well with a youtube world where people aren't going to pay attention to a 10 minute video.

So tell me what you guys think. I'd like to see who's interested and who has what resources available.

[Psyentific]

I'd do this, but I'd just constantly fuck uptroll everyone.

[splinterchaos]

I'm in, sign me up drill sergeant!

[GoatBoy]

I'm in, and not just because it'll get me marks.

[xlich6]

I'll see if you guys need me to be a glorified jackass/stuntman/cameo. I would like to help, just give me a holla if you need/want me.

[bionicgroin]

I'd do this, but I'd just constantly fuck uptroll everyone.

You can be talent. Actors always fly off the handle and act insane but somehow yield interesting performances.

I'll see if you guys need me to be a glorified jackass/stuntman/cameo. I would like to help, just give me a holla if you need/want me.

Again. Talent, man.

[Cataphrak]

I can write and act, and I've already mentioned my idea for an SFU: Alien Reaction Corps webseries to some of you. If people seem interested, I'll put up an info thread with what I got.

[kultz]

 I haven't acted in ages, and have no idea if I have time, but I am interested nonetheless. Wouldn't mind acting or pitching terrible ideas. Haven't got a clue on how to work a camera, though. Haven't edited video on that mac thing since grade 12.

[crazyjavi87]

I'd totally be up for this, though I'm an okay actor.

And I can't write, though I can come up with ideas....
...
...I'll need to think about it. Though by 'think' I mean 'sure thing.'

[snoozysam]

I can write and act, and I've already mentioned my idea for an SFU: Alien Reaction Corps webseries to some of you. If people seem interested, I'll put up an info thread with what I got.

I have a vague idea as to what this is, but please do make an info thread about it. Is this the continuation of that story with SFU turning into a giant robot and fighting Pedobear in space?

[xlich6]

Calling forming the head on the voltron pedobear!

[bionicgroin]

Okay so we got a lot of talent and a lot of idea guys. For party balance we're going to need someone who doesn't mind working a computer and someone who likes taking pictures. You can't all be fighters and barbarians.

You can edit on a PC. Windows movie maker is shit tier, but it'll technically do what we need it to do. I have russian legal copies of adobe premiere if you're willing to install it.  For a camera - cellphone cameras should do the job if we get a lot of light. Since it's summer it'll be perfect to do exterior shots. For a bounce board we can get a 60 cent white poster board for a fill light. For sound we'll have to use the mic on the cellphone. It'll be shit so the actors will have to talk loud (not a problem for the ARC). If sound sucks too much we can do ADR (dubbing) afterwards under better acoustic conditions.

 

[Cataphrak]

Is this the continuation of that story with SFU turning into a giant robot and fighting Pedobear in space?

If we had the budget for that, none of us would need day jobs. No, this is based more on Cam's XCOM LP than on the fanfiction, I'm afraid.

[MikeL]

I've done a little bit of video editing before (middle school lol). so I might be able to fill that niche.

[bionicgroin]

Also for video ideas: the only thing we can get away with doing on our budget is comedy. No one is going to take our stuff seriously so we have to be funny with everything we do. Like these people:

http://channel101.com/

So Idea Guys, here's what you have to work with:

1-5 minutes, exterior if sunny, interior if wet, funny, actors talking loud and making big expressions that can be seen easily in a small window and with poor resolution.

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