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Fan Group Creates Full-Length Discworld Movie
greenrd writes "'Almost No Budget Films,' a group of Terry Pratchett fans from Germany, recently finished a 9-month filming stint on a full-length dramatisation of pterry's novel 'Lords and Ladies.' A grand total of 300 euros were spent on this production, and all profits from this fan movie will go to the Orangutan Foundation. Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!"
And another 300 euros will be spent thanks to the direct video link on Slashdot.
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[trans. I for one welcome our oragutan overlords]
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
"Check out the new English trailer for some grin-inducing special effects!""
Wearing too tight underwear can produce the same effect.
http://trackerwww.prq.to/download.php/3294903/lnlu ksm.avi.torrent
Site is nuked so get it from here.
With so much power on the desktop it's becoming easier and easier to produce polished video products at home. There's even software to correct for shaky camera work, it's possible to redesign shots in the editing programs and digital effects are becoming very easy to setup now. (remember Lightsabre boy)
I love the idea of more and more content being produced by hobbyists, enthusists and other non-studio persons. We are at that point where knowledge passes from a few to many - much like the printing press took the books away from the scholars and gave them to the people. Screw the RIAA & DMCA, we are gonna start producing our own copyrighted materials and they'll lose out.
The rock, the vulture, and the chain
Wonderfully entertaining, kitschy trailer.
For more stuff quite like this, check out Channel 101 and its New York sister site, Channel 102.
For an example of how brilliant zero-budget filmmaking can be, check out their winner for this month's contest: House of Cosbys.
If you don't laugh at this, you're probably Bill Cosby. And even then.... well, just click.
Cool!
But I just hope in Terry Gilliam to find the budget to start Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens"!
Wouldn't that be great?
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Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
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Some of the really major stumbling blocks I see:
1. Scenery/Models. Unless it is set in contemporary earth, this is one of the really hard ones. By models I mean models of castles, spaceships etc., which tend to look like they were made of Lego.
2. Getting enough angles. Particularly an issue in action movies, where my impression is the shot lacks angles (i.e. it was filmed once from one angle, instead of a commercial movie often mixing and matching between overview shots, action "highlights", close-ups of key people, pans etc.
All of that is used to form a good scene. It takes time, requires a good editor and provides very little screen time, but it really sets them apart. In particular, notice that you never see a "pan-up" scene done with rails/crane in an amateur movie. Same with aerial shots.
3. Acting of B-class characters. The leads usually have some acting skill. But the fringe characters (i.e. not the extras) suck donkey balls.
4. Cheesy CG/special effects. Yes, I know many of the effects are easy to make today. But more often than not, the program doesn't support (or it is too damn hard to figure out how) the effect you really want, but you settle for what you can. They tend to look plastered on top like a sticker from a Donald Duck magazine on top of your photo.
5. Audio effects. The music is usually decent, but the timing might be off. But more often than not, the audio effects sound "unmatched" or simply fake. No, changing the pitch and streching/compressing it still makes it sound like a horse/pig/dog/bird/animal of the day, and that was just you screaming.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Here is a mirror of the english trailer:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/temp/lnluksm.avi
unless it is uni-form-hot-chicks.de or something. But that kind of sites have their educational goals, anyway.