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This is the second memorial video I have been asked to work on, my first was for Makato, who passed away from cysticfibrosis at the young age of 17. This video is for one of the members of My Internet Services, Jeff, who passed away in November of Lukemia. MYIS happens to be the ISP which hosts 21st Century Warfare, as well as several other FPS tournaments. Working with one of the mappers for 21st Century Warfare, PickUp. A modified version of Wake Island 2007 was made. Heavy modifications to the looks of the Aircraft carrier were made - for the reason that the aircraft carrier played a major role and I wanted it to appear more animated/active. Some of the changes made were to add illumination to lights on the carrier, plus rotating satalite dish, and smoke from the exhaust stacks (yeah, carriers are really nuclear powered now - but it looks great). Asking permission from the development team of Forgotten Hope 2 mod, we imported the Brittish 6-pounders for the 21-gun salute. From the Wake Island competition map, we lifted the skins for the F18's to be the Blue Angles. We also added in a few ships in the ocean w/ the oil rigs on them - this was more for helping the aircraft pilots to line up their aircraft to fly a specific path over the island for the missing man formation. I made an image file in filefront: http://gallery.filefront.com/psychomyst/154232 Our original shooting was in December, we had a great showing of people. While I had primarily planned on people from 21st Century Warfare to show up, a few people from Gamerz Theatre and Blue Entertainment came along too. While we had tested the Battlerecorder earlier in the day, it seemed when we loaded the modified version of Wake Island 1007 the battlerecorder hook file for unix/lynix servers was loaded over the windows server hook file; thus 3 hours of great community work just dissapeared into the cosmos. I was so sad as it looked great - from the aircraft launch sequence to the 21-gun salute. The only thing that was a bit awkward was the exit of the troops to transport helicopters. A re-shoot was done in January, but while we had great numbers it wasn't the same as we had in December. Mostly, we needed more people for a military lineup for the ceremony. But, we pressed on. I had wanted to get the video done before Febuary, but due to workload of my job just kept me from getting much done. And what little I did do was lost when I was doing housecleaning of my computer - thinking I had pulled the files over to a network drive, I had deleted all the demo and avi files. Lucky for me, a few members of those who showed up also downloaded the demo files and I got a whole new set and have been working on making avi extracts to edit together. There are 4 sequences planned for this video - the opening scene is the launching of the Blue Angles from the carrier, the secondary scene is showing of the military group being read the eulogy, the third scene is the missing man formation plus 21-gun salute, the fouth being the playing of taps with a shot of a memorial stone and honor guard. For the closing credits, I plan to do what I did w/ the Makato video, and while the credits are displayed show footage of the troops leaving formation and getting into helicopters and leaving - as well as shots of the Blue Angles flight returning to the carrier. Right now, I'm pulling footage from the demo files. I'll get some updates soon |
