My World of Warcraft Video
// June 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // My Videos
I just did a quick update to include the World of Warcraft video/movie I did. It won 6th place in the Comedy category of the very first World of Warcraft / Xfire movie contest. I ended up getting a PCMCIA sound card as a prize. Woohoo? I still have the thing in a drawer somewhere, unopened.
I had actually forgotten all about this movie until today. Luckily I recently put Windows 7 on my old Alienware laptop, so I was able to get the original video file off of there with no problems. I even found some old pictures of the setup I used when recording the in-game “footage”, so I threw them in the portfolio as well.
I had a lot of fun writing the script, blocking out all the shots and editing everything together. I definitely learned a lot about the whole process as well. The biggest lesson was: don’t try to do it in a weekend. I had planned on doing it for so long, gave up on the idea right as the contest started, and finally said “screw it, I’m doing it” 4 days before it was due. I had so much footage to go through, and not enough time to really tighten everything up. Overall I think it was decent, although I can’t stand watching it anymore. All I see are the problems and the areas I wasn’t satisfied with. I always meant to do a sequel, or at least another movie, but school has taken up most of my time until recently (when I graduated).
I’m embedding a version that was uploaded to Google Video below. I didn’t actually do the upload; some random person decided to download it from the official movie site and upload it. Fair enough. Looks like they uploaded it on March 14th, 2006. Crazy. I think I still have a higher resolution version on a hard drive somewhere.
-Chris
