Kick Off - shunnyboy

shunnyboy

2008-08-05 05:45:23

shunnyboy in Kick Off | Codec: Xvid | Length: 87 Mins Approx
All parts uploaded (You need all 10 parts to extract the video)
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This video consists of frags in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch over the past 3 months

Footage from public deathmatch, team deathmatch, 1v1s, 2v2s, 3v3s, 4v4s  
clan matches, draft nights, 1v2s, 1v3s, 1v4s in Australian, North American,
South American and European Servers.

The video took about 4 months straight to record and edit. People may wonder
why I chose to make it so long - I had so much footage that I deemed worthy 
so I decided to release it all as one whole clip, although I may release a
highlight video of all the best shots plus more later. Additionally some
may question my editing style, however I wanted it to be fasted paced without
any real effects that altered the frags themselves.

Don't pass judgement untill you have seen it! :D

Thanks to everyone featured in my video, cause playing was lots of fun.

Have fun and I hope you enjoy it! Please comment!


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Dazzle

2008-08-05 05:58:17

omfg! i cant wait it XD

0nti

2008-08-05 06:23:17

;O
nice presentation, you surely can handle photoshop >.< I need to learn a bit more about that :P
It will take forever to download and watch the video, but I took my time in helping you so I need to see what you finally pulled off ;)
lemme know as soon as it is uploaded :D

badinfluence

2008-08-05 08:17:58

I'll have to download this one over night like I did WoW. D;

Fearsome*

2008-08-05 08:34:17

ill take the dvd version sounds like a fairly long dl.

poconut

2008-08-05 08:43:05

87 minutes?!?!?

SND

2008-08-05 09:24:19

Sweet presentation dude.
Can't wait to see it but 87mins is too much for a frag vid im sure it will be good but there is a good reason why most frag vids are below 16mins long other than a long up load time. let me do my maths if its like finality as in size and quality then 11mins of 400mb times 8 will be around 3.2 Gb

Shadow

2008-08-05 13:12:59

I'm really looking forward to watching this, mate. I'm sure it will be top notch, though I must admit that I'm a little apprehensive to see myself in it ; )

Kingpin

2008-08-05 13:28:41

Looking great man, I had no idea you were making a vid until I saw it on ozsource. I know it will be wicked!

provost

2008-08-05 18:23:21

87 minutes!!!!

what---the---fuck

Blasphemy

2008-08-05 19:31:38

someone upload it on youtube so i can watch it, cause i am not gonna download 87 minutes worth of pub frags.

Zman42

2008-08-05 21:59:18

even if the frags are amazing, im not downloading 87 minutes of them...what blas said, upload that shiz

Fearsome*

2008-08-06 01:00:36

where is it ive been cooking popcorn since yesterday so I would have enough for the whole thing.

Pincus

2008-08-06 02:17:59

Fearsome* wrote:where is it ive been cooking popcorn since yesterday so I would have enough for the whole thing.
haha, this is the best quote for the past month!

Shunny, you might need to create a .torrent of the frag film. I don't think you can upload anything above 1gb to Filefront. But then again Shaun might be able to use webspace from the web company he works for.

Either way, hurry up :)

warez

2008-08-06 03:54:44

OMFG!!! cant wait !!! :o :o

L2k

2008-08-07 03:58:24

Pincus wrote:Shunny, you might need to create a .torrent of the frag film. I don't think you can upload anything above 1gb to Filefront
or you can try the free file host filedropper with its 5gb limit http://www.filedropper.com/

Joule turned me on to that one and 5gb limit is like wow.

0nti

2008-08-07 05:39:57

wow Punk, thanks for the site, 5gb is something incredible :O

shunnyboy

2008-08-07 09:48:29

Thanks for the suggestion, however it appears to have a problem actually letting me upload the file - it doesn't work at all.

I have already paid for hosting, however I am having trouble ftping the file up - possibly to do with it's size. This should never normally be a problem with ftp...

I will link as soon as it is successfully uploaded.

shunnyboy

2008-08-07 10:44:00

After having issues with the host and ftping files to large, I have decided just to span the file into 5 rar files of 800mb approx each and host them with filefront. File front has failed about 10 attempts using 3 different ISPs, I am now trying a different host... :@
Sorry for the wait everybody.

blutonium boy

2008-08-07 12:57:20

uploadet 0 files! xD

Pincus

2008-08-07 15:19:09

shunnyboy wrote:After having issues with the host and ftping files to large, I have decided just to span the file into 5 rar files of 800mb approx each and host them with filefront. My filefront account is: http://hosted.filefront.com/shunnyboy download all 5 parts as they are uploaded.
Cool. I'll keep my eye on there for a while.

4 gigs, 87 minutes - highly unorthodox, but totally awesome.

Once it's all uploaded, you should post it on own-age.com.

Pincus

2008-08-08 06:12:56

If this next one also fails, then create one huge torrent of it. I'll seed til infinity.

Deathwish

2008-08-08 13:23:12

the only reason im downloading it is because i get killed in it! jokes lol i wouldve watched it either way lol

ninojman

2008-08-08 19:14:19

This should be made into a HL2dm mini series
Break it down into twenty 5 minute shows!

Walking Target

2008-08-08 21:29:10

Shunny has asked us to host it here, which I will likely do, but if everyone gets it from here it may slaughter us on bandwidth. It's gonna take me some time to download and upload it all. I am looking into mirroring it somehow to avoid any bandwidth issues.

I don't recommend submitting it to own-age, it will just be a million cries of "wtf too big". They even complained about 600 MB vids in the past.

blutonium boy

2008-08-08 22:20:05

why don't you try 5 different hoster? www.mulehost.com, www.megaupload.com, www.uploadet.to, just to name a few. torrent would do it too

Nutri-Grain

2008-08-08 23:47:21

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0nti

2008-08-09 02:57:05

holymoly wrote:I have to pass judgment right now- if you think you have 87 minutes of entertaining material, you need to stop being so egotistical. Plain and simple. And I can tell you this, too- if you compressed 87 minutes of hl2dm into 5 segments of 800mb, the video quality is going to be very sub-par. I suggest you take your 87 minutes of footage, cut them down to 1/10 of your video's original length, and then go take a good hard look at your priorities in life while reading Chicken Soup for the Soul and examining your own face in a mirror.
ouch that was hard >.<

Uncle Rico

2008-08-09 03:32:09

I miss holy. :cry:

Nutri-Grain

2008-08-09 04:49:57

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Pincus

2008-08-09 05:13:27

blutonium boy wrote:torrent would do it too
I agree :)

I'm curious... How many people here who are complaining about the length of this video aren't going to download it/watch it?

I know it's highly unorthodox, but I'm still going to download it.

0nti

2008-08-09 05:38:42

I WILL download it, but I believe doing an almost 4gb and around 90 minutes video isn't the right thing to do =/
I'd rather get different volumes..... but whatever ;P

SND

2008-08-09 05:45:12

tbh I will not download it don't really have a day to give away for one download but i will only download it if i hear it is good. But on the other hand u could up load it to Vreel when they get there beta up they are upgrading to 5gb up load for one video which is pretty sweet u can get it close to HD quality and will be able to stream it quick problem is u need to codex it right for the player and i dnk how to do that.

But listen to the guys advice whole point of a frag vid is to entertain I nerver seen a frag vid that even comes close to 87mins and so i get the feeling it going to get repeative and start to get boring past the 20th min. I suggest u get someone to look thro it to tell u what frags to get rid and so start the project from scratch unless u don't have the raw footage left not too sure yet have not got to the editing and finalizing a project my self. But consider it last thing u want to do is had to spend all that time on it to have everyone hate it because its too long. I have 200 frags that i consider good but barely half of them i will use in the frag vid because by looking at them I see I already got a kill like that some where else and so i pick the frag looks more interesting and appealing and get rid of the other. These are things that you should do when putting a vid like this together because it will end up being really long and a pain in the arse. No pun intended.

0nti

2008-08-09 05:49:45

in case it gets repetitive, you just keep watching it another day ;P
Anyway, jeez upload it ! I wanna download >.<

Constipator

2008-08-09 08:50:06

Yeah really the only good thing i can see doing is downloading it & watching like 10-15 mins of it per day for a week. I couldn't even take 87 minutes of footage that are as good as sw's or onty's. Plus, your ping is like 150-200 every time you play with good people....I don't really know how you can think so many frags are that good when most of them are going to be so visually laggy...but w/e i guess i'll dl it anyway for shits 'n giggles. :?

What you need to do after this if you haven't deleted the raw footage yet is cut everything away from it until you have 15 minutes of the very best of your kills for all the people who won't dl for a multitude of reasons. Add in some editing, maybe change the sound track (that's something I'm wondering about....wtf am i gonna listen to for 87 mins?) and make a nice normal vid that can be enjoyed in one sitting.

Pincus

2008-08-09 18:15:22

I spoke to Shunny today on MSN. I told him surely he could've cut it down from 87 minutes to at least an hour. But he assured me that there was nothing he could remove. He said there are heaps of xbow bounce blind shots after I told him it's best to have a video full of amazings, opposed to repeated "goods", and I cited Game Over as a good example, but he responded as if his footage/video was in a league of its own, better than Game Over.

It should be interesting to watch the full video, and see how it compares to other frag videos (game over) which he "ROFL"'d at when I mentioned them in comparison to his.

If it were me though, I would split it up into 6 or so frag videos.

Oh yeah, he also said the video quality was good. I think it is split up into 6 800mb .rars.

Nutri-Grain

2008-08-09 23:12:02

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o-dog

2008-08-09 23:48:19

I wouldn't be so harsh I'm sure it will be a good video, but yeah 87 minutes is REALLY excessive. cut it down to 15 minutes of the very best "oh shit" frags.

also there's no way it's gonna be better than Game Over.

0nti

2008-08-09 23:54:52

also there's no way it's gonna be better than Game Over.
I rather wait and see.
Yeah, Game Over is something hard to beat, but some of you people have it way over the top. Sooner or later someone will for sure present better stuff... unless years keep passing and all of us stay with the same skill level and unable to improve, which I see illogical....

Pincus

2008-08-10 05:36:37

I was wrong about the file sizes. There will be 10 400mb files. You need all of them to extract the .avi, because the rars are split, like with tv releases or whatever :O

Pernicious

2008-08-10 06:38:28

"That's a pretty big ego you got there buddy"

I have been campaigning this for ages now XD

Ill quote myself here, "87 minutes is just enough time for shunny to stroke it"

Dazzle

2008-08-10 08:39:45

# 5,6,7 is missing :cry:

shunnyboy

2008-08-10 09:09:16

im in the process of getting them all up

Mars

2008-08-10 16:04:45

I <3 u shunny im downloading it now, i know this will be awesome :D

blutonium boy

2008-08-11 01:10:32

when i'm done downloading we seed it as torrent, what you think?

shunnyboy

2008-08-11 01:52:54

i can upload a torrent of it later today in case anybody wants it that way

provost

2008-08-11 03:22:24

unraring the file. will post review in the next hour!

blutonium boy

2008-08-11 03:55:03

i like the vid. nice frags, good quality. music is ok and fits. the only minus point is the length. 8/10 points :)

Dazzle

2008-08-11 04:30:07

great , there is some creative x-bow ricochet impressive.
and qauilty and bgm is great have fun with this vid thx a lot

8.1/10

keep it up :D

provost

2008-08-11 05:06:39

Pros:
Nice sync with frags/music.
Song diversity.
A refreshing buttload of maps.
Nice Frags!
New ricochets!

Cons:
The song kicking in at 35 min has the most annoying bass boost ever.
I wish it wouldve been 25 minute of complete rape instead of 87mins of good kills.
That's very personal but the vid goes a bit "cocky" sometime and doesnt help focusing on the vid.
Repetitive xbow ricochet on biohazard.

Easter Eggs?
-two song can be found in Game Over with similar frags playing synced like in G.O
-b0nk!

Zman42

2008-08-11 06:27:03

I actually hated this. sorry, theres always one, right?

shunnyboy

2008-08-11 06:35:59

@all - thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

@conflict
Pros:
Nice sync with frags/music.
Song diversity.
A refreshing buttload of maps.
Nice Frags!
New ricochets!

Cons:
The song kicking in at 35 min has the most annoying bass boost ever.
I wish it wouldve been 25 minute of complete rape instead of 87mins of good kills.
That's very personal but the vid goes a bit "cocky" sometime and doesnt help focusing on the vid.
Repetitive xbow ricochet on biohazard.

Easter Eggs?
-two song can be found in Game Over with similar frags playing synced like in G.O
-b0nk!

_________________
GL&HF
Glad u liked the bounces D: I love them and rpg curves. As far as map/song diversity I strived to do that esp. becasue of the length so that it wouldnt be boring. I put a good deal off effort into music sync so im glad you noticed :)

Not sure what song of the top of my head with the bass, but yeah some are pretty hardstyle.. imho 80% is pretty rape (with 0% padding) - i watched back every frag vid on hl2dmu just to make sure the frags were as good or better (again imho). as far as cockiness wise, i suppose there is a little of that in there (mainly some of the aliases ive had ;)), but considering the length and the fact that i sometimes have a bit of an attitude i thought i kept it to a minimal proportinately to the length of the vid. As far as bounce repatition - i left quite alot out that i had (esp. pub ones), and bio is my fav level so wht can you expect :P most ppl only have a few so i wanted to give a bit of an idea of just how many i get - my best is 7 bounces in bio in 20min lvl :O

Songs - yeah liked those ones from game over thats y i used them, and thought what the hell i have similar shots so why not be cheeky and do it like that - well spotted ^^ (i also felt it fair to give luke a heads up as he made g.o. so i let him know also) but i figured it was fine to do as that was that was done in finality - i.e. copied of a css vid.
bonk, yeah i use it sometimes cos i think its a good saying :)

overall the reason y i did one so long is:
a) to make something different
b) because many many ppl want to watch frag vids but have little idea how much work it is (why alot of ppl dont make them) and so i thought well if i do one that long then ppl can watch qualtiy footage that is 10 videos long without having to wait for 10 ppl to make a vid

hope that makes sense. :)

shunnyboy

2008-08-11 06:40:07

@zman

soz u hated it :(

Pincus

2008-08-11 07:35:29

Just finished watching it. Bloody ages... Worth it though.

First up, Shunny, people aren't going to respect you if you use aliases like so:
<god:shuns bestokayer='true' />
----below this line : noobs----
best player ever

Tiger Woods may be the best golfer, but he doesn't go around chanting "i'm the best" and "fuckin amateurs".

And as far as I know, a lot of people don't respect you in the US scene because of this.

I thought the 40 foot stun stick comment was halarious: [VDuS] Bio: 40 foot long stunstick.

"
Copyright (C) 2008 SHUNNYBOY, MIGRATE PRODUCTIONS.
ALL RIGHT RESERVED.

COUNTRY OF FIRST PUBLICATION: AUSTRALIA.

THIS MOTION PICTURE IS PROTECTED UNDER THE LAWS OF
AUSTRALIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES. UNAUNAUTHORIZED
DUPLICATION,DISTRIBUTION OR EXHIBITION MAY RESULT
IN CIVIL LIABILITY AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
"

The video was 87 minutes already, and it didn't help putting in this sort of stuff...
For starters the video contains copyrighted music as it is, and I assume you didn't pay the artist any royalties or anything like that, therefore if anybody is going to be criminally prosecuted, it will be you, not people mirroring the frag video :P

Anyway, you don't spell unauthorised, UNAUNAUTHORIZED... And it's with a s for us Shunny, we don't live in America...

Now to go the good shit.

This video was fairly insane. Remove the thousand boring and repetitive random pub aim arena mag shots then shotty frags and this video is as good as Game Over.

The xbow bounces are totally sick. I think I showed you that one on overwatch from the green car to the xbow room. It's totally sick that you got the frag. It has the flu!

I noticed you did indeed repeat some exact same frags more than once. In one case I think you repeated it maybe four times (definately three times). You could've cut those out, because there is no point having the same frag twice, from the same camera angle etc, especially considering the video was too long to start with.

I wasn't the biggest fan of the music, but it was fine. Disturbed = good, but I have heard it in a number of hl2dm videos before.

Really great video, but there were areas were frags which you could've easily left out. Then on the flip side, there were heaps of frags which had the flu.

Good job :)

shunnyboy

2008-08-11 07:57:54

@pincus

i already mentioned the aliass earlier, some of those are quite along time ago, but yeah. as for the credits, true, but i just wanted to make it seem more official/movie like as it is as long as one. obviously it is just text :P

as for the frags there were no duplicates. a number of frags i have done the exact same thing (looks very similar, im guessing around the corner in bio ;)) also i left many out as it was. as for pub kills only about 30% are pub, which to me is a good amount. i think the video would have been a boring if i had done 15mins stright of just rpg curves, mid air xbows/nades/minis/rpgs, xbow bounces. but as i said earlier i might make a highlights seening as thats what everyone seems to prefer.

Pincus

2008-08-11 09:02:15

shunnyboy wrote:as for the frags there were no duplicates. a number of frags i have done the exact same thing (looks very similar, im guessing around the corner in bio ;)) also i left many out as it was. as for pub kills only about 30% are pub, which to me is a good amount. i think the video would have been a boring if i had done 15mins stright of just rpg curves, mid air xbows/nades/minis/rpgs, xbow bounces. but as i said earlier i might make a highlights seening as thats what everyone seems to prefer.
You should make a 15 minute movie though, of just the xbow bounce shots.

I know all of those Bio ones look similar, but i'm talking about another clip, which was definately duplicated. It was on lockdown and it was FFA, you were outside down on the ground right outside the mega charger rooms windows (so basically where the two wooden boxes fall after they spawn), and you killed a few people and went forward (in the direction of the AR2 side of the map), and you were holding a metal heater which you killed some people with, and after you threw it and killed somebody it bounced off the wall and hit you, and your screen went red. I saw that a least twice.

And there was a frag on Bio which I saw 3 times, but that wasn't a xbow bounce.

And another one of Bio, the insane one where you were at the charger, and you bounced it off the curcle wall near you, and it did a whole U turn and killed somebody in the little room filled with water. I definately saw that one twice.

It's definately worth watching.

EDIT: I was smoking me own home grown or something, there were no duplicated kills... But I swear I did see them :P

provost

2008-08-11 09:03:57

we're not sayong there's duplicate kills. We're saying having the same TYPE of kill (yes the curve in biohazard) more than once shouldn't happen. you see it once. you understand and enjoy. if you want more, you re-watch. we realise you can pull this one of pretty good but we also realise that we coudlve saved around 40 mb.

thatguy

2008-08-11 09:16:30

indeed didnt watch it but corner shots are really over rated as good kills i think

shunnyboy

2008-08-11 10:20:55

@pincus
Im not sure the ones you mean that are dups. I have watched the vid about 15 times and havent spotted them so im not sure. If there are in there tho then sorry my bad. As for the last frag, that is not in there twice 100% certain. If you are refering to when frags rewind and replay then yes otehr than that i dunno.
@conflict
Thats just a difference in opion i guess, cos imo showing volume is far better than just once as that means you only were good enough to get it once rather than good enough to do often. Otherwise u get bad players getting a fluke shot and appearing better than they are. Thats just my view of it.
Glad ppl liked some of it at least but I guess there was no real point of slaving for almost 5 months for this kind of response - i.e most ppl not thinking much of it or just thinkin: meh

sup3rbad.

2008-08-11 13:02:37

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This guy is good, adlays! Glad to see I was featured in this vid (quite a few times :wink:) I liked this vid quite alot actually (for those of you saying "87 mins wtfux man r u teh crazeh?!") I can tell you now it doesn't even seem like 87 mins once you start watching. If you still don't like it shunny isn't forcing you to watch the whole vid in one go. Anyways, music was good, frags were good, video was great, xbow ricochets were bs - highly recommended to any hl2dm fan.

Good work shunny 9/10

-superbad


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Pincus

2008-08-11 13:09:44

.conflict wrote:we're not sayong there's duplicate kills.
lol, I was.

Shunny, I watched the whole thing again in fast forward, and I didn't find the dup kills I was talking about. Really, really freaky...

Because for like at least 5 different clips there was major deja vu. Very strange.

"I can tell you now it doesn't even seem like 87 mins once you start watching." - I disagree. Some parts of it felt dragged out, particulary parts with excess amounts of aim arena footage. Then when you get to the xbow bounces (think the overwatch one, and the aim arena one which bounces off the roof), it gets speccez again.

Pernicious

2008-08-11 14:27:26

"Otherwise u get bad players getting a fluke shot and appearing better than they are."

Uh-oh, there it is again.
I would have thought that frag videos are more for entertainment purposes then proving one's self.

If u want to watch professional gamers and wat not, demos are more appropriate....And other games unfortunatly >.<

Cynips

2008-08-11 16:03:31

Pincus wrote:Disturbed = good, but I have heard it in a number of hl2dm videos before.
I lol'd!

Edge

2008-08-11 16:24:10

Alright so I'm still downloading right now but from what I've read about repetitive shots that look the same just an idea would be to sync those shots with the music. As in Game Over, I can't remember who but there was two headshots right in a row when the Disturbed song was playing, with those xbow shots, at first you show the first one that's long and you see all the bounces with it, then instead of showing the bounces again you show the last bounce and it hitting the person and snyc that with the song and so on and so forth for each repetitive shot, but do it all in one go I think. It'd just make it seem a bit better imo.

Cynips

2008-08-11 20:38:17

holymoly wrote:After 87 minutes, things are going to look the same. Period.
They did.

shunnyboy

2008-08-12 01:42:39

@superbad
Thanks alot lad for the great comments :D

@pincus
Thanks for saying that there were duplicate frags before confirming in fact there wasnt

@ holymoly
"But its also likely that out of the 300+ clips needed for this video, one was accidentally added twice."
Actually there is over 1200 clips used... so to have it perfect is quite hard.

@everyone
I will be probably making a 15 or so minute one of my favourite footage from that plus a few bits of new footage I have just got. hope ppl can like that more.

Edge

2008-08-12 02:00:11

Just in case you are don't take what people are saying negatively, they're suggesting things that will help you make your videos more appealing.

darkhead_

2008-08-12 02:28:14

Can anyone send it to me by MSN ? ;D

No ? Ok I'm downloading it =]

shunnyboy

2008-08-12 03:05:02

Yeah guys, I understand. Its just that so many ppl were saying i wish there was more vids so i thought they would be happy to have one that long - even if they just watched 10mins of it a day.

I spent a shit load of time syncing, but mainly the slowest thing was recording the frags from hl2dm which i probly put about 500hrs+ into over 3 months

I will do a highlights one tho so ppl can appreciate the very best i have & we can see how that goes. :)

darkhead_

2008-08-12 03:19:31

Good luck =)

I hope I won't have to spend 500 hours more to fnish my vid .. ^^

SND

2008-08-12 04:04:43

My review:
creativity 4
content 6
editing 7
soundtrack 5
quality 9

K well i did not have a pleasent time with this vid mainly due to waiting 6 hours then loss my connection and have to download it again all 10 downloads. This really has effect on how people see the movie so U where at a lost from the start and would of had to given something really special for the time invested by the viewer.
First impression was k some animated graphics. First lot of tracks was not all great but i started to get into the vid. 20mins latter is a complete different story I started to get annoyed see the same shot and then seeing so pubers getting crowbared. There where some good kills but most where average or a shot i see too many times in one frag vid. There was some sync but all together in relation to length it was realy just 100s of frags clips put together with no specific style or anything with the rare black and white. There was some really good kills in there tho but they lost wow factor in the ocean of average frags.
Now sound track yea there was some good ones in there but did not felt they where used to they could of been to create a atmosphere or tension. But the tracks we know so well from game over to be used was a big no no even if u tho it was chicky and ask for permission. Guys that make css frag vids and have a well knock track from a highly rated css frag vid get there balls crushed in a vice and so u loss points for using it especially using the first one and shotting the same as game over. 3min credits at this point you really think should i been using up more memory for this.

There is allot to talk about in a 1hr and 25mins frag clip but lets just rap this up now. Conclusion is that this was bound to fail for being this long. You should of been more selective with your clips and really thought throw on how you wanted show your self off to the community. Like using alias when your making a frag vid you got to keep in mind that the viewer can see that name too when u kill and having poor names makes you loss creds with the viewer. Also repeating shot I was like plaese somthing else i see that all ready i counted 38 crossbow kills in bow from the same wall shot you used it so much the goodness of the shot died. Around 30% is repeated shoots 30% is average 20% is good 20% is really good, if You where more selective tou could of made a really good frag vid with that footage in 40% alone where u could save that time from recording frags to spending it on planning the movie out and work creativity into it.

A good short film with average kills that is well edited with originality will be better than 83mins of endless fraging and that's the painful truth sry to say.

Just being honest and hopefully you will learn from that when u make a highlight version.

Walking Target

2008-08-12 04:21:16

Yeah Shunny, don't take it hard. Remember that this is the Dept of Film here at the U, we are all about making better and better videos, hence criticism is to be expected in this specific forum. Most complaints seem to be related to length and frag selection. I wouldnt even make a highlights reel if I were you, I would just start working on a new movie with the goal of staying under 15 minutes (10 to 12 is perfect IMO).

shunnyboy

2008-08-12 04:42:34

Yeah, points taken.

Still i failed to see how the frags are considered average/boring as the only sort of frags i included were mid airs of all weapon types, rpg curves, xbow bounces/richochets, kill streaks, spawn rapes, pistol/melee kills in 1v1s/2v2s (almost 0% pub to clarify) and also ones where i get multiple shots to kill someone. these type of frags are _exactly_ what is in other videos which have been called great, so when made the chioce to make it so long i figured putting these frags but 10 times as much would be considered good, not 'repatitive'. I mean I dont think its good because their my frags - I would have thought it was great if anyone else had made a vid of those type of frags that long, personlly i think most vids are far to short. I guess thats gust personall opinion.

I belive the main problem is ppl have pretty bad attention span as i can easily sit and watch and hour of frag videos, whether it be 10 frag videos from other ppl or one really long one.

I included credits because it was so long that that I figured I wanted to make it like a movie which has a little bit of that at the end. Ultimately by ppl's responses it would have made no difference either way if i had or had not.

poconut

2008-08-12 06:48:39

seeing as I have a decided lack of free hdd space, I'll wait for the 15 minute one :P

darkhead_

2008-08-12 15:30:14

Download complete..

**extracting**


Giving feedback tonight ;D (In France)

EDIT :

I tried to watch it but after 2 mins, my computer crashed and didn't want to start again and I got so error messages Oo_

Now it's ok, I'll watch it later, going to the city, bye ;D

Edge

2008-08-12 17:10:34

Well shunny some of the frags for example theres one long one with mag to shottie the mag then shottie to kill not ot far in just is like ok didn't really want to see all of that, and one some you miss a few times so I can see where people think it could have been left out. I'll get the exact time for ya later today when i get home to show you what I mean.

Nutri-Grain

2008-08-12 21:19:32

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darkhead_

2008-08-12 23:56:09

Ok I watched it ..

I liked :

-Some creative frags
-You used pink ;D
-The fact you used so many maps and didn't make it linear
-Some music
Wait, I don't remember now .. Erm ...
-Sometimes the sound sync
I can't remember what I liked too sorry ><'
-Some nice rpg curve and blind 'nade
-Like all thses suicide
-The .png file

I didn't like :

-Music, sometimes it didn't stick at all with HL2DM (imo)
-All these aim_arena/lunatic_arena frags .. I found them so boring.. Sorry -.-
-You used nearly 80 clip making the same ricochet on bio... 1 is good, 2 is ok, 3 becomes boring..
-Some clip had bad/not good quality
-Aliases you used ... You're not a pro.. You're not earning money by playing HL2DM and you're not the best too.
-Smooth effects were ... erm .. laggy, not smooth .. And sound wasn't sync.
-Crowbar show .. I'm not a big fan of this, 1 or 2 is enough.
-It was really really repetitive.. And youy didn't help this when you show 10 times the same 'nade shot on aim_arena
-Pub frags .. Why ? Imo, it ruins a frag movie. Why ? Random players playing on it and not at their best at all imo. Some noobs, some afk. And when you play on a server, in deathmatch, full of low, it's really easy to make all your tricks.
-Song used in Game Over but I know you didn't make it intentionnaly (I think) and I nearly had the same problem when I saw the last 911 movie, I was like "WTF ? Oo_ I wanted to use these songs but, that's cool I had other ideas ;D"
-You forgot tu put sv_voiceenable 0 and hud_saytext 0 or something like that
-Outro was a bit sad
-Not enough cool effects used. You have some nice software, use them.
-Crashed my computer and nearly burnt my Graphic Card Oo_

I won't speak about the size or the lenght..

hmm, that's my point of view, I konw how hard it is to make a video but I think you made some mistakes you'll correct in the future.
Good luck!

darkheAD

shunnyboy

2008-08-13 00:45:05

yeah ok guys ill keep that in mind for the high lights vid which wil have new fotage as well as my best from that. it should be out in about 2 weeks so ill put it on this thred. i think also u may have forgotten the very best frags due to how long it was so ill cut it down to about 15 mins and see what i have from there.atm im just getting new fotage so ill start on it in like 1 week.

AzzX

2008-08-13 06:55:28

Is the vid available to download at the one place somewhere? I'll have to leave it for a couple of days as my quota resets :)

Maybe an x264 encode would have worked to reduce the filesize a bit.

Anyway nice work Shunny!

shunnyboy

2008-08-13 08:04:24

thanks azzx, ummm yeah u can dl it from the first page of the link but u need all ten parts

as for the encoding cos no one really liked the vid i wont probly do it in different code but for my new one i might which hopefully more ppl wil like

Pernicious

2008-08-13 11:55:30

shunnyboy

2008-08-13 14:12:00

ROFL

Zman42

2008-08-14 20:34:02

yeah lame. but hey, shunny im looking forward to your 15 minute vid! release dat shiz son!

shunnyboy

2008-08-15 00:34:15

yeah i will be but i may take a little long cos i wanna do somethings witht the editing that may take awhile and i have been getting new gfitage so it may be about 3 weeks til its done
ill let u guys know

Trouser Snake

2008-08-17 13:01:19

Just got done watching this. Some really awesome frags in here, my favs were the crazy rpg shots on avalon :twisted: . And i liked the length of it, long enough to zone out to unlike most of these shortass vids. Also made me kinda nostalgic seeing some of the names on there that i havent seen in a really long time. Im impressed more cuz i know most of those frags were done while u had like 200 ping. Keep up the good work :D

Trouser Snake

2008-08-19 03:34:40

well thanks, but this thread is about shunnyboy's video. :wink:

Edge

2008-08-19 19:09:15

holymoly wrote:This thread is now about Trouser Snake.
Another thread jacked by holymoly.

provost

2008-08-19 19:19:20

This thread is a spy!

lead

2008-08-19 21:39:10

filesh corrupted shunny shend ush the dvd inshtead :cry:

shunnyboy

2008-08-20 02:00:44

umm well everyone else seems to be getting it ok of FileFront so im not sure.. :(

lead

2008-08-20 16:41:41

shunnyboy wrote:umm well everyone else seems to be getting it ok of FileFront so im not sure.. :(
mm k m8 i will give it a go l8r

graffitiknockout

2008-08-21 02:00:58

I liked it. 87 minutes is maybe a bit too long though, because you see the same type of kill more than a few times, which takes away from the awesomeness of the kill and makes you zone out. However, people are always going to remember "that 87 minute hl2dm frag video", lol.. I loved the variety of maps used in the video, and a lot of these had unique kills on them which was cool. The quality and resolution of the video was excellent and there was some good photoshop skills shown off, as well as a few cinematic editing techniques and recams. The gameover parodies made me laugh, n1.. some kills really were impressive too, good job. Playing with high ping can be tough and it showed in the video. I loved how the innovations from past frag videos are used and developed further by players and shown in new frag videos, because that will help people reach a higher level of skill and continue to push the limits on this game. The voice chat from some of the victims was funny, lol. I didn't like all the aliases though... Some of them made you look really cocky, which i don't think is the point of a frag video. However, on the whole, the video was pretty good, but a shorter vid would get a much bigger response from everyone ;)

shunnyboy

2008-08-21 02:06:48

thanks luke, glad ya liked it :)

lead

2008-08-21 17:23:10

well ah tot it wiz gud shunny...quite professional too :wink:

shunnyboy

2008-08-22 01:59:11

thanks pal

Deathwish

2008-08-27 06:56:01

new month yays so can finally download it, hate filefront though my router likes to freeze (don't know why), and filefront doesnt support download managers so u cant start from where u paused it or where it stopped :(

0nti

2008-08-27 06:58:44

new month yays so can finally download it, hate filefront though my router likes to freeze (don't know why), and filefront doesnt support download managers so u cant start from where u paused it or where it stopped :(
sooo QFT. I know what you mean, trust me >.<

Deathwish

2008-08-27 13:45:38

but mes is in it!

0nti

2008-08-28 00:57:35

oooook jeez finally...had to wait an eternity to be able to watch it.

There were some really amazing frags there, mid air rpgs, mid air nades, ricochets (and pretty creative ones too!), and so on.
However, I have to agree with the fact that ... watching like 20 times the same frag was too monotonous and boring (like the bio ricochet), and there was a lot of footage that could have been left out, like the pistol/melee sequences, the respawn frags, all the repeated stuff against different players, etc.
Music wasn't my taste with exceptions of some songs, and as mentioned already, try not to use that kind of aliases... doens't leave you in a very nice position =/
I do believe a highlight of this video (10 minutes?) well edited would have been great! Try being more picky next time :P

warez

2008-08-28 03:21:49

finally a video with a true music !! hardstyle ftw (playlist read on the readme.txt)
It looks awesome

9 parts remaining :cry:

scaryboy

2008-11-16 01:54:59

wow, nice editing, i very like this video, amazing frags 10/10 from me mate

Deathwish

2008-11-18 21:15:36

youve watched it like 100 times already since it came out scary lol