Our next assignment for creative tec is the 10 second video film festival in which we have to produce a 10 second video that has to be 10 seconds, no more.

Now when i come up with ideas for this one influence was this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NtBX0XEHT0

(note the embed wont work )

Rite this show is called Red Vs blue, its a new form of media called machomedia that involves recording a video inside a computer game.

The first company that did this was Rooster teeth that took the halo multiplayer and recorded it, then went on to add voices and full charcters.

http://www.roosterteeth.com

They went on to make more shows inside games such as The sims 2 and F.E.A.R but none were as popular as Red Vs blue, it went on for a 100 episodes over 5 seasons and has spawned 2 mini seasons.

So my idea was to do something like that involving the game Counter Strike source, now i am working on uploading some test videos but hosting sites only allow a 100MB files.

so my idea was to have a little short video in counter strike with 3 people in it and have some dialogue between two of the charcters.

the program i will use to record the footage is called Fraps, which i have used before.
You need a very good machine to record the game and get a good frame rate but lucky for me my machine is very high spec.

This wasnt my only idea i did have a few and they were :

Reacting this scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgrsNBu51nU
That is the long scene but the bit where he goes " madness? This is sparta!" and kicks him down the well but change the words to " this is lincoln!"
that is a silly idea but fun and its one of the best lines ever thats been overused more than the " i am your father" line in the empire strikes back.

my second idea was to do a Anti Mac advert, This idea came from when a friend of mine was bragging about a mac and i just wanted to blow it up.
the idea would be that the camera pans out on a Mac on a desk, then after 3 seconds it blows up and then cuts to a white screen saying " apple, we have found a use" this imates the general apple adverts.

Another idea is a little band promo that lasts 10 seconds, shows pictures of the band performing to the there music in a little GIF file.

Then theres the pealing orange idea, this idea was to use stop motion and show the orange pealing itself.

Each of these ideas uses a diffrent way of filming, My main idea uses a really new and diffrent way of video recording.

My next post i will talk about the first tests i did using fraps including a little edited video i have done and also how Red Vs Blue came to be and why it is so big, i will also talk about all the copies of red vs blue and diffrent games.