[ Collaboration ] Front Page Video for Nexuiz 2.5

[ai]

Would be ideal to have Morphed's models as well Who wants to persuade him?

[Mirio]

Will 2.5 be released in the next , uhm.., 3 months?

[esteel]

In even less time

[Mirio]

In even less time

is that a new record?
if so i could contribute some things

[FraNcoTirAdoR]

A collaborated front page video, sounds frigging awesome! As I guess it could also be a Youtube popularity-gainer video too if it happens to be that cool!

First we need a conception, and of course a background music. The tension-building in nowadays presentation videos / trailers is extremely fashionable, also the usage of orchestral elements too, so I highly recommend these two things to be implemented.

If there is a music already made, plz could anyone link it? If not, I recommend to speak it together how it should build up, and how long it should be. What I mean like this: (just a fast example i didnt even think how it would look)

- 5 second slow startup with an intro image, that will blend somehow into the movie
- 25-30 second of medium paced rhythm where you show the new weapons along with the new effects.
- 15 sec of total slowdown slow flyarounds on new maps in slowmo, for tension build, come frags that look cool in slowmo etc
- then boom: 30 sec of extremely intense, general fighting seconds with FOTM frags, with the last seconds constantly speeding up, and then comes a sudden cut
- 4-5 sec of float-like ending with cutting back the title and some motto like: "let's pwn the world" and stuffs, don't know

It's like 1,5 mins, so its not even too short or long (or boring to watch)

Im pretty sure it would really hit big if the music wasnt just some constant paced techno stuff (well it can also be mixed with orchestra, like almost all style...), but with speedup and stuffs, so the viewer truly enjoys it.

If you wanna see how professionals make it in 40 secs
http://www.videocopilot.net/products/proscores/
Yeah this one is abuse of orchestra i know (because they are to sell that collection-product) But the buildup is similar to the one I recommended, so you get the point.

I imagine sth like this, with maybe a well fitting techno base. Orchestral parts can be cut out from those creative common license musics that were mentioned earlier, but i guess its hard to obtain them. I REALLY know how much the resources are limited, this is just a conception idea to give base others to their ideas too maybe. I really hope there are some guys capable of making a very high quality video this game deserves, I would say I would do it, but I just started messing with After Effect not so long ago, so im sure there are many guys who can do it much better.

For FOTM posts the ones I really recommend are GreEn's january post, and Kojn's earlier post where he electropwned someone midair, dont miss them

[Mirio]

FOTY can't be the one. For the simple reason that this game has to be appealing to as many people as possibly. So showing only "hardcore" super cool stuff that only the experienced players can do, can throw off newbies. They might think it's too intense and that they wouldn't stand a chance and die all the time.
I didn't like that aspect of Quake 3 Arena too much before and I was a newbie and no way to beat those crazy guys who hits everything every time.

hardcore stuff done by hardcores looks easy and natural , keep in mind that only purpose of this video is to make people install the game, after that they can love it or hate it but video did its job, game is on hdd and ready to play

but that dont mean you should only show tripple mid-air mortars where you both are falling into the void some balance need to be made, and dont show too much nexgun shots, they are rather boring to watch after while, quick turn, *click* and action is over ;P, and for gods sake dont show facing worlds in this movie, its sniper map made for fun and it looks bad

[esteel]

First we need a conception, and of course a background music. The tension-building in nowadays presentation videos / trailers is extremely fashionable, also the usage of orchestral elements too, so I highly recommend these two things to be implemented.

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Well i see no reason to only have ONE video, i think the homepage has enough space to show 2 or 3. Maybe even have one 'gameplay video' that shows all the stuff, from the menu, to changing the menu skin, maybe the playermodel, choosing a server and then just a few minutes playing. And then one 'highlights' video that shows insane frags, god like aim, kojn getting fragged and such unholy things

[[-z-]]

Well i see no reason to only have ONE video, i think the homepage has enough space to show 2 or 3.

Well we have a media page I think extra videos can go on, I don't think putting bunch on the front page is the right move.

[cortez]

what about one trailer for nexuiz ( like franco suggested) and one footage video which contains lot of different stuff?

[FraNcoTirAdoR]

what about one trailer for nexuiz ( like franco suggested) and one footage video which contains lot of different stuff?

Sounds cool, and yeah, maybe its strange to create only 1 video for all: you know, for the menu messing, speedrun, frags, weapons, effects, different game modes etc, it just wont fit in, without making it way too long (= boring)
Nexuiz really needs a professionally made, exciting trailer anyways, you know, as I said combining it with such a powerful community-share enviroment as Youtube it can gain extreme and constantly growing popularity even on long term.

I also agree with [-z-], different videos on 1 site might not look so cool, and can be also confusing, but hey, how about a "What's new in 2.5?" highlighted and well designed link to new page, im sure many guys would appriciate it. So when you click on it you can watch in an "average" video (still cool frags etc, but more building for the information role) telling whats new, and under it some lines of text writing a little more about the changes. I'm sure it will be clicked often enough by default since human is a really curious specie
So it could also mean that it wont cause problems to select between new features which ones to implement, and also to add cool frags and nice movements to keep the excitement level up, because most could fit into the "informing" movie, without really big length restrictions.