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Nov 13, 2008 15:17:12 GMT
Post by YACCBS on Nov 13, 2008 15:17:12 GMT
This is an idea that randomly popped into my head yesterday on the way home from school, and I wanted your thoughts on it.
We can all work together and create a full length trailer for one of the fics nominated, complete with a sound track, voice acting, and cut 'n paste clips for the actual video (or maybe even some animation).
I know it sounds pretty ambitious but we have a lot of talented people on here and I thought it would not only be fun but also good for publicity. Thoughts? YAC, that's awesome? YAC, stfu and go diaf?
And if you do kinda think this is intriguing - which fic do you think would make a great trailer? The first one that popped into my mind was Hate Your Heroes by Buckle but there's a lot of nominated fics that would be good for trailers.
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Nov 13, 2008 16:04:30 GMT
Post by fearandloathing on Nov 13, 2008 16:04:30 GMT
Sounds cool! Although picking just one nomination out of them all seems picky, if it's possible couldn't we make a montage trailer with different sections from different noms? We'll have to get our resident VA La Ed on the case! We can use our multi-national-ness to get different acents as well XD
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Nov 13, 2008 18:45:06 GMT
Post by YACCBS on Nov 13, 2008 18:45:06 GMT
Oh totally, Fear. I actually prefer doing multiple ones (like "The Nominees Are...") but thought it might sound like too much.
And yes, we should have La VA for everything, even Barret.
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Nov 13, 2008 19:59:40 GMT
Post by fearandloathing on Nov 13, 2008 19:59:40 GMT
Do it 'The nominees are...' sounds awesome. Someone should script something and then people could play around with the voices/etc.
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Nov 14, 2008 3:29:32 GMT
Post by La Editor on Nov 14, 2008 3:29:32 GMT
Great idea, Yaccy! (...Why is this gold in the Wine Cellar? Somebody shuld move it 2 ids nd suggeschuns, plzkthnx!)
I had actually run a similar idea by Tasha as a suggestion for the next awards, as a feature - I was thinking maybe to produce a dub of the first few sections/first chapter of the People's Choice Best Fic winner. This sounds equally awesome, though, seriously; an actual trailer!
In keeping with the theme of the GA - it being an awards site and all - I think that doing a trailer for a winner would be appropriate, though I'm sure we could do a test-run of some sort, given that Buckle would allow it. OHOHLETSDOONEOFGUARDIANS.
Oh, gawd, me, Barret?! Hmm... maybe if I did the right voice but in my own pitch with lots of vocal fry, then used the Pitch tool to lower - what am I saying?! I can produce the dub by holding auditions over at the VAA if this goes into action, but I think I'd stick to Yuffie! Perhaps Aeris or Tifa if there weren't any appropriate auditions. XD Gawd, me imitating Barret, or worse, Steve Blum. That would only end in disaster and heartbreak. (Vincent's. And those of his millions of fangirls.)
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Nov 14, 2008 4:15:10 GMT
Post by Bianka on Nov 14, 2008 4:15:10 GMT
Oh, Yac, good idea. =) I imagine that the authors would be very flattered, too. "The Nominees for such-and-such category are..." Hehe, very neat. Like Fear said, we could get lots of members to do this, given our national diversity. La is wonderful at voice acting, *bows* and I would also offer to help with any voice acting. I've done lots of announcing work, so I have some experience in this sort of thing. I think Pen would be good, too, because she has lots of acting experience. Mengde also, if you recall his poetry reading. So on and so forth. =D Hehe, the idea of La doing a Barret voice is hilarious to me. XD
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Nov 14, 2008 13:35:28 GMT
Post by Sylla on Nov 14, 2008 13:35:28 GMT
Mengde could probably lower his voice a smidge and do a passable Vincent. La... well, you know I was very impressed with your Aeris when you posted that VA sample on Snapvine, so I won't say anything else. (Or maybe Bianka could be Aeris, since she sounds kinda like her naturally.) =P
Hm, Barret, though... Pretty sure that'd have to be a guy. Koky, how deep is your voice? Although I'm totally down with La trying it and seeing what happens.
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Nov 14, 2008 14:42:35 GMT
Post by Moira Rose on Nov 14, 2008 14:42:35 GMT
Amazing Idea!
If that hasn't been said already.
I think we'll be able to do this after the awards for the winners, or do this while the judging's taking place. I vote for the former.
I prefer La as Aeris than Barret, but...Bianka's pretty convincing too. If we don't get a Barret by...whenever we start this, I think we should use La. xDD The idea amuses me.
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Nov 14, 2008 16:30:24 GMT
Post by YACCBS on Nov 14, 2008 16:30:24 GMT
Haha, I was just joking about La being Barret (though I'm all for you trying it, La. It will probably be entertaining). We would definitely need a guy for Barret and Vince, maybe even Cid.
So, besides VAs, we would need people who are good at writing short scripts and summarizing. Now where ever are we going to find people who are good at writing?
...Oh, right. The whole gosh darn forum.
For video clips, I was wondering if anyone has DoC FMVs in high quality? I've got all the AC and CC clips but my DoC ones are pretty terrible.
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Nov 14, 2008 16:34:06 GMT
Post by fearandloathing on Nov 14, 2008 16:34:06 GMT
I have one, had to get rid of all my FMVs for space purposes, but I think bluelaguna.net will probably have them pretty good quality if we need'em.
Who are our moviemakers?
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Nov 14, 2008 17:12:14 GMT
Post by lynnreist on Nov 14, 2008 17:12:14 GMT
BlueLaguna has all of them, and I have them handy. I could toss them at you on msn if you'd like, YACCBS.
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Nov 14, 2008 18:57:23 GMT
Post by YACCBS on Nov 14, 2008 18:57:23 GMT
BlueLaguna has all of them, and I have them handy. I could toss them at you on msn if you'd like, YACCBS. That'd be great, Lynn. As far as moviemakers go, judging by the AMV thread we have a couple people who seem quite comfortable with doing editing. But before we can get started on that we need to choose which fic(s) we're gonna do and get a script done, so we can choose the appropriate clips. It may even be possible to use non-FF7 clips for some of the fics. Will depend on the fic, of course, but we could probably pirate a good number of general scenes from other movies to use.
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Nov 14, 2008 19:04:55 GMT
Post by Sylla on Nov 14, 2008 19:04:55 GMT
Well, obviously for Crossover fics having video from the crossover games/movies would be good. =P 'Course, that's a problem for at least one, since it's a crossover with a book. But anyway. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Nov 14, 2008 19:49:12 GMT
Post by La Editor on Nov 14, 2008 19:49:12 GMT
The VAA is a whole huge community, so by holding auditions, there would be at least 40+ people trying out for multiple parts (FFVII is quite popular there), so I could handle that if you guys need me to. I'm not kidding - there are some amazing people there. This one guy does Vincent so freaking well. I would marry his voice. *fangirls*
I think by getting all the FMV scenes from AC, DoC, CC, as well as FFVIII, IX, X, XII, and all three KH, there are several scenes that could be used for a FFVII story trailer, like what Yaccy... (Yaccy said that, right? Too lazy to cheeeeck) said.
This is just a thought, but for clips, how about we not use any in-game? Because it's a trailer and all... I've always sort of thought that it makes AMVs cooler when they only use FMV scenes, but then again, that's just me. :]
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Nov 14, 2008 20:09:18 GMT
Post by YACCBS on Nov 14, 2008 20:09:18 GMT
The VAA is a whole huge community, so by holding auditions, there would be at least 40+ people trying out for multiple parts (FFVII is quite popular there), so I could handle that if you guys need me to. I'm not kidding - there are some amazing people there. This one guy does Vincent so freaking well. I would marry his voice. *fangirls* That would be wonderful, La. The more talent the better and I want to hear Mr Vincent Sound-alike.I think by getting all the FMV scenes from AC, DoC, CC, as well as FFVIII, IX, X, XII, and all three KH, there are several scenes that could be used for a FFVII story trailer, like what Yaccy... (Yaccy said that, right? Too lazy to cheeeeck) said. This is just a thought, but for clips, how about we not use any in-game? Because it's a trailer and all... I've always sort of thought that it makes AMVs cooler when they only use FMV scenes, but then again, that's just me. :] Sorry for not clarifying this earlier - only FMVs would be used, no gameplay vids. 'Cause it's 'sposed to look like a movie and all, so using gameplay would be rather silly. Now we just have to decide...which fics? Should we choose one category and do all the noms from it? Or choose one each from a variety of categories? Or we could wait for the shortlists, and then do the noms for People's Choice. Edit: School wireless fails and brokez my postz.
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