Hai gais.
So I haven't touched this thing since last year. Jesus. Well first up, I'll update you guys on the videos that have hit these past couple months. I've finished episodes 5-7 of Deus Novus now, leaving just another three episodes to go. Yeah, there's only gonna be 10 episodes. I originally wanted there to be 13-15 similar to the average "Breaking Bad" season, but I just couldn't cram anymore story in there. That, and to be honest, I've reached that point that every filmmaker, amateur or not faces where I just want to work on something else now. I mean, in a little less than a month, I'll have officially been working on that series for one year. For a 10 episode series consisting mostly of 7-10 minute episodes, that's pretty ridiculous. Regardless, I'm gonna finish it no matter what. With that said, below are the links to aforementioned episodes 5-7.
Deus Novus: "Void"
Deus Novus: "Revolt"
Deus Novus: "Home"
Well, there you go. First blog post of 2014. That'll be all for now.
Thanks for reading! -Jack
Friday, April 18, 2014
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Stuff and Other Stuff
Yo.
So I keep putting off posting on this thing. I don't like doing it. It's boring. But I do it anyway. Jumping right into it, as most of you are aware, my friend Lambda Machinima made a film a while back titled "Primordium II Part A," a sequel to his original "Primordium" film. However, Part B of the film ended up hitting development hell for him, and he has passed the project to me. Very brief preview can be viewed by following the link below.
Primordium II (Part B) Preview
It's currently being worked on alongside Deus Novus, which I will talk about now.
Production is running much more smoothly. Stormray, voice of Gabriel, has gotten all of his lines in for both Deus and Primordium. Just waiting on the voice of Daemon, and I can get those shat out.
Finally, something else you guys should check out is a video titled "Silhouettes" by my friend Radical Industries. Very well choreographed action themed video. I also scored all the music, which was a lot of fun for me, especially since this was the first time I've scored an entire video. You can watch it by following the link below.
Silouhettes: Live Action Fight (HD)
Anyway, that's all for now guys. Thanks a bunch for reading.
bai bai, -Jack
So I keep putting off posting on this thing. I don't like doing it. It's boring. But I do it anyway. Jumping right into it, as most of you are aware, my friend Lambda Machinima made a film a while back titled "Primordium II Part A," a sequel to his original "Primordium" film. However, Part B of the film ended up hitting development hell for him, and he has passed the project to me. Very brief preview can be viewed by following the link below.
Primordium II (Part B) Preview
It's currently being worked on alongside Deus Novus, which I will talk about now.
Production is running much more smoothly. Stormray, voice of Gabriel, has gotten all of his lines in for both Deus and Primordium. Just waiting on the voice of Daemon, and I can get those shat out.
Finally, something else you guys should check out is a video titled "Silhouettes" by my friend Radical Industries. Very well choreographed action themed video. I also scored all the music, which was a lot of fun for me, especially since this was the first time I've scored an entire video. You can watch it by following the link below.
Silouhettes: Live Action Fight (HD)
Anyway, that's all for now guys. Thanks a bunch for reading.
bai bai, -Jack
Friday, November 15, 2013
I'm Alive!
Hey d00ds.
So I'm sure you've all missed my frequent <lie> blog posts here, so I decided to finally update this fucking thing. As I'm sure you're all aware, I've closed my YouTube channel and made a new one. Why? Well, unless you're interested in hearing a long and heart-felt story of ass rape and the alignment of the nine planets, don't worry about it. My new channel can be found here.
As for videos, the four completed episodes of Deus Novus have been re-uploaded, and can be found in the following links.
Deus Novus: "Pilot"
Deus Novus: "Breached"
Deus Novus: "Amiss"
Deus Novus: "Sub-Human"
In addition, I also recently released a short video regarding Google's recent amazing <lie> changes to everyone's favourite video hosting site, YouTube, featuring the voice of Tyler W. Moore. Check it out by following the link below.
#YouTubeJustice
Anyway, that's all for now.
Thanks for reading, -Jack
So I'm sure you've all missed my frequent <lie> blog posts here, so I decided to finally update this fucking thing. As I'm sure you're all aware, I've closed my YouTube channel and made a new one. Why? Well, unless you're interested in hearing a long and heart-felt story of ass rape and the alignment of the nine planets, don't worry about it. My new channel can be found here.
As for videos, the four completed episodes of Deus Novus have been re-uploaded, and can be found in the following links.
Deus Novus: "Pilot"
Deus Novus: "Breached"
Deus Novus: "Amiss"
Deus Novus: "Sub-Human"
In addition, I also recently released a short video regarding Google's recent amazing <lie> changes to everyone's favourite video hosting site, YouTube, featuring the voice of Tyler W. Moore. Check it out by following the link below.
#YouTubeJustice
Anyway, that's all for now.
Thanks for reading, -Jack
Monday, September 16, 2013
Deus Novus episode 3, progress on episode 4
Alright, so episode three has been uploaded, and can be viewed through the link below.
Deus Novus: "Amiss"
This episode is devoid of action, and is solely to move the plot along. Do not fret however, for action will be aplenty in the next episode, which I should talk about now.
Episode 4 is on it's way. I just need lines from the voice of Daemon, and I can finish it off. I think episode 4 is shaping up to be my best action oriented work yet. I'm really pleased with the cinematography and editing thus far, and I can't wait for you guys to see it.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Cheers, -Jack
Deus Novus: "Amiss"
This episode is devoid of action, and is solely to move the plot along. Do not fret however, for action will be aplenty in the next episode, which I should talk about now.
Episode 4 is on it's way. I just need lines from the voice of Daemon, and I can finish it off. I think episode 4 is shaping up to be my best action oriented work yet. I'm really pleased with the cinematography and editing thus far, and I can't wait for you guys to see it.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Cheers, -Jack
Thursday, August 15, 2013
News: Episode 3 complete, changes to release schedule
y helo thar.
So I'll keep this breif. Episode 3 is all done, however it will not be released yet, which I will talk about in a moment, but first I want to get a couple things out of the way. Firstly, I want it to be known that episode 3 is completely devoid of action due to pacing reasons. The way the action scenes were implemented in the script really made no sense and dragged the episode a bunch. Not only that, but it was turning into a twenty minute episode, which I try to avoid to the best of my ability unless absolutely necesary. This is because if I release a twenty minute episode, then release an eight to ten minute episode afterward, it will be a bit dissatisfying to the viewer, and in this particular situation, the extra content that brought the episode to such a length in the first place wasn't at all necesary and obstructed the overall pacing of the episode.
Rest assured however, for episode 4 will be quite action packed. When it comes to implementing action into an episode, I've now learned that I really need to be careful at this point in the story. I initially just sort of figured that because I classified the genre as sci-fi/action, I could pretty much do whatever I want, which has proven not to be true, especially with this particular story I've created. I'm a huge believer in the idea of story structure, more specifically, set-ups and pay-offs. When two characters have a large gunfight right off the bat in a film, the viewer probably isn't going to think much of it, because the film has just begun, and there's already a large battle, which logistically, would seem cool, however, it doesn't seem story driven at all, So if you spend the beggining and middle of the film developing your characters and giving them motives to hate eachother or whatever their individual drive is, the pay-off, or in this case, the gunfight taking place at the end feels very driven because you as a viewer know that these two characters are both justified in their own ways. Episode 3 should be considered the set-up and episode 4 the pay-off.
Anyway, now that my rambling about story strucutre is through with, let me explain the change in release schedule. I've decided not to do my original series release idea, simply because you'd all be waiting way too long for it, and eventually lose interest. What I'm going to do, is get just a few more episodes ahead, then begin releasing. So yeah.
That's all for now.
Thanks for reading and have a great day, -Jack
So I'll keep this breif. Episode 3 is all done, however it will not be released yet, which I will talk about in a moment, but first I want to get a couple things out of the way. Firstly, I want it to be known that episode 3 is completely devoid of action due to pacing reasons. The way the action scenes were implemented in the script really made no sense and dragged the episode a bunch. Not only that, but it was turning into a twenty minute episode, which I try to avoid to the best of my ability unless absolutely necesary. This is because if I release a twenty minute episode, then release an eight to ten minute episode afterward, it will be a bit dissatisfying to the viewer, and in this particular situation, the extra content that brought the episode to such a length in the first place wasn't at all necesary and obstructed the overall pacing of the episode.
Rest assured however, for episode 4 will be quite action packed. When it comes to implementing action into an episode, I've now learned that I really need to be careful at this point in the story. I initially just sort of figured that because I classified the genre as sci-fi/action, I could pretty much do whatever I want, which has proven not to be true, especially with this particular story I've created. I'm a huge believer in the idea of story structure, more specifically, set-ups and pay-offs. When two characters have a large gunfight right off the bat in a film, the viewer probably isn't going to think much of it, because the film has just begun, and there's already a large battle, which logistically, would seem cool, however, it doesn't seem story driven at all, So if you spend the beggining and middle of the film developing your characters and giving them motives to hate eachother or whatever their individual drive is, the pay-off, or in this case, the gunfight taking place at the end feels very driven because you as a viewer know that these two characters are both justified in their own ways. Episode 3 should be considered the set-up and episode 4 the pay-off.
Anyway, now that my rambling about story strucutre is through with, let me explain the change in release schedule. I've decided not to do my original series release idea, simply because you'd all be waiting way too long for it, and eventually lose interest. What I'm going to do, is get just a few more episodes ahead, then begin releasing. So yeah.
That's all for now.
Thanks for reading and have a great day, -Jack
Sunday, July 28, 2013
News: Deus Novus episode 3 in the works, music, and my response to a certain complaint
Hey.
So first up, status on episode 3. I'll be honest, it's been slow. I'm still waiting on lines (when am I not), and I also decided to go back and start over on production. The reason for this is that looking through what I had, it was looking a lot like episode 2, which I really don't want, since that one wasn't very good. Re filming isn't all that difficult, since I don't film over Xbox live. Honestly, it's beyond me as to why anyone does. You have those assholes that just kill everyone, little kids with poor listening skills, and people who can't follow simple directions in general. Why go through all that when you can buy four controllers (for quite cheap nowadays, might I add) and just act out the character's movements yourself? And don't give me that "on local you can only have four people in the scene" because there are plenty of ways around that, the best being masking, and even if you don't have the software for that, you can just have a different gameplay clip of different characters, but on the same map, then edit the shots to make it appear that they're in the same scene.
Kind of went on a tangent there, but whatever.
As for re-editing, that will be a pain, but fuck it. I'm just gonna keep at it until it's just the way I want it. Quite a few scenes are going to be cut out as well, since looking at the script, a lot of them are pretty pointless.
Now, on the subject of music, I'm quite pleased to announce that Deus Novus episode three will have absolutely NO music by anyone but myself. Now if you've heard my music, you're probably aware that it's shit. Just little loops, nothing special. On screen, however, they do a great job of fitting the scene, since it's by me, the person who actually wrote the scene. So there's a little something to be excited about.
Now, before I go, I want to bring up a couple of complaints I've gotten regarding the length of the episodes. Both episodes 1 and 2 were in the 8-10 minute range. I've been asked to "please put in a little extra work to make the episodes a few minutes longer." This irritates me for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I put a shit load of work into the episodes the way they are, and if I were to go back to the series' script (which, mind you, is already complete) and increase each episode's respective length or use stupid camera tricks to draw it out, you'd be waiting even longer for the series release.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Thanks for reading, -Jack
So first up, status on episode 3. I'll be honest, it's been slow. I'm still waiting on lines (when am I not), and I also decided to go back and start over on production. The reason for this is that looking through what I had, it was looking a lot like episode 2, which I really don't want, since that one wasn't very good. Re filming isn't all that difficult, since I don't film over Xbox live. Honestly, it's beyond me as to why anyone does. You have those assholes that just kill everyone, little kids with poor listening skills, and people who can't follow simple directions in general. Why go through all that when you can buy four controllers (for quite cheap nowadays, might I add) and just act out the character's movements yourself? And don't give me that "on local you can only have four people in the scene" because there are plenty of ways around that, the best being masking, and even if you don't have the software for that, you can just have a different gameplay clip of different characters, but on the same map, then edit the shots to make it appear that they're in the same scene.
Kind of went on a tangent there, but whatever.
As for re-editing, that will be a pain, but fuck it. I'm just gonna keep at it until it's just the way I want it. Quite a few scenes are going to be cut out as well, since looking at the script, a lot of them are pretty pointless.
Now, on the subject of music, I'm quite pleased to announce that Deus Novus episode three will have absolutely NO music by anyone but myself. Now if you've heard my music, you're probably aware that it's shit. Just little loops, nothing special. On screen, however, they do a great job of fitting the scene, since it's by me, the person who actually wrote the scene. So there's a little something to be excited about.
Now, before I go, I want to bring up a couple of complaints I've gotten regarding the length of the episodes. Both episodes 1 and 2 were in the 8-10 minute range. I've been asked to "please put in a little extra work to make the episodes a few minutes longer." This irritates me for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I put a shit load of work into the episodes the way they are, and if I were to go back to the series' script (which, mind you, is already complete) and increase each episode's respective length or use stupid camera tricks to draw it out, you'd be waiting even longer for the series release.
Anyway, that's all for now.
Thanks for reading, -Jack
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
News: Deus Novus Episode 2
Hey.
So, remember when I said that I'll be pre-producing episodes of Deus Novus? Well here's the exception.
Deus Novus: "Breached"
But I have a good excuse!
A friend of mine who's fairly popular on Youtube, Lambda Machinima, is holding a summer machinima contest, and I couldn't resist making a submission, even though I probably won't win. I had a whole script written and everything for a short film, until it dawned on me that there's no way I would be able to get all the voice actor's lines in, film, and edit in less than a month, so I decided I'd just finish off episode two. So yeah, don't get used to this.
Enjoy the episode, -Jack
So, remember when I said that I'll be pre-producing episodes of Deus Novus? Well here's the exception.
Deus Novus: "Breached"
But I have a good excuse!
A friend of mine who's fairly popular on Youtube, Lambda Machinima, is holding a summer machinima contest, and I couldn't resist making a submission, even though I probably won't win. I had a whole script written and everything for a short film, until it dawned on me that there's no way I would be able to get all the voice actor's lines in, film, and edit in less than a month, so I decided I'd just finish off episode two. So yeah, don't get used to this.
Enjoy the episode, -Jack
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