Wednesday 26 February 2014

Producing a Fan-Made Movie - Part 2

It was in November 2012, when the writer sent me the first draft of the first cup(out of 4). I started sending them to the Voice Actor to see how they will turn out and I liked them. I kept working especially in early 2013 till Summer. Script was half-way through. My goal wasn't just to do the add-on but to improve my last video from October as well, meaning that since I now had a recorder and wasn't on a deadline, I could take my time and do it as I like till I am really satisfied with my video. Till June and beginning of July, I had recorded every Jak 1-3 gameplay similar to how the original was, and every other cutscene as well in HD.
The first one is the original Standard Definition one from the developers.
The Second one is the "upgraded sharpened and saturated one from the 'Remastered in HD' Video (October)
The third one is the new true HD Quality upgraded and sharpened

The original and the new HD quality.

For editing, I didn't just remove my old clips. I started from scratch so I won't have any problems and it will be much closer to the original one. 
August/September - Editing of Jak 1-3 was finished and script of Jak X was still in progress. I kept in touch with the writer and we worked together so the movie will be the best experience for the fans as if it was done from the creators. 

We created a Facebook and a YouTube page to post updates or trailers confirming this is true and that it was going to be published sometime that Fall (Fall 2013) so that we could finish Jak X as well. I also made a poster similar to the original one to show that the story continues and everything will be in HD.



Friday 21 February 2014

Producing a Fan-Made Movie - Part 1


Back in October 2012, I remade a game movie in HD released by the developers themselves. I got all the permissions needed and this was just for fun so no profit was going to be made. The movie took about 3-4 months to finish. After publishing the HD version of the movie, it was a success and received many positive reviews and an 8.8/10 rating from a reviewer. On the movie itself I leaked a teaser of an upcoming video as an EXTENDED Edition to the Trilogy Movie. This will have the next game in the series - Jak X and it will be a fan made add-on based on the original one.

I started production right after I finished the other project and I made auditions for those who can voice the main character to serve as a commentator for the movie. Most of the fan base sent me recordings and I picked one voice actor. One then offered to help write the commentary script and I accepted.


I then posted another picture with a ':)' on our fan page. The fans realized this was in production.

Saturday 15 February 2014

Favourite games are getting a Movie!

Two of my favourite video games of all time are getting a movie in 2015 and 2016!
The vibrant world of Insomniac's Ratchet and Clank is set to come to the silver screen in early 2015. 


Following in the footsteps of Sony brethren Ratchet and Clank, everyone's favorite platforming raccoon, Sly Cooper, will be getting his own feature film too, headed to theaters in early 2016.


The movies are both being made by Rainmaker Entertainment, the animation studio behind Escape From Planet Earth, and Blockade Entertainment. Primary production is already underway on the films, which will feature voice cast members from the game franchises. 
All I can say is that I can't wait for these films since these were my childhood games. The only thing I hope for now is a Jak and Daxter film! :) 





Thursday 6 February 2014

Illustrator and Photoshop

I am new to Illustrator and as a class the lecturer taught us the basics. We then had to cut out several shapes from the picture given.

We then made a simple photo collage using Photoshop.