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@personandstuff: Is the web service secretly Giant Bomb?

And this might get me to finally check out Star Trek. I'm always interested in the small bits of universe I hear and I like the new movies. I realize that those are action heavy but as Star Trek fans have said, being on TV lets them do the stuff Star Trek is good at.

And I like Bryan Fuller. Or at least I like the show I've seen from him, Pushing Daisies. Yes, I know he has other shows.

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@akyho: I'm actually amazed and happy that you managed to write up a surprisingly detailed breakdown of all of that. I'm kind of honored that anyone would offer that much to help me improve. Heh my TA did it in a few sentences.

I remember that the dead air problems was because I had recorded the audio first and then assembled the clips. So I didn't have time to do a second go at audio let alone more audio. So the dead air is because I literally had no audio to cover a clip. I should have tied the clips a bit closer then, you're right.

I think I did have a plan to add a bit of background music but didn't want to deal with more work.

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@hatking: I think it's just assumed that if you're in the program you have some way to do this stuff. But for someone like me who kind of just ended up picking it because my high school marks were bad, here I am. It's also film studies not straight film production. It's like the Dan Ryckert way, done terribly.

I wasn't totally self taught. I had a simple production class in high school but it had been a while. And pretty basic.

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@jinoru: Glad you think the clips I choose were good. It was certainly entertaining to think of what I enjoyed from the site and what I could mix together.

@samfo: Hey all fair points honestly. Especially on the second pass. It was already late by the time I started doing the audio so I didn't have time. Your comment gives the most to go on if I ever want to revisit this thing.

It was for a general film class. I don't even remember the exact name since they're all kind of interchangeable. The assignment was to put a strong focus on audio with a montage. Originally it was tied to another assignment that had me doing an audio interview with my dad about growing up during the Vietnam war but I didn't think I could do any justice to that especially when I didn't have much in way of film equipment. Giant Bomb had a lot of content I could use and I wanted to do something lighter in tone.

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@aegon: ...There's some dumb watermark in there isn't there...

Goddammit. How did I not remember that was in there. I actually didn't even watch the whole thing again just skipped forward a bit to make sure nothing incriminating was in there.

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@damodar: Honestly cannot remember for the life of me, since it was year ago and I've gotten a new laptop since then.

I know it was free (legally of course) but that's it.

Edit: I'm a moron. Watermark and all.

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@heycalvero: Yeah it's totally a common thing. Always thought I would get used to it since I've already heard so many people say that but it's still jarring.

@odinsmana: I don't plan to make anything else since then, but hell it's worth it to be just to get my feet a bit wet with editing. Did a bit of that in high school but still always feels kind of cool. All told this is a basic compilation with some rushed VO but I did make it. I think I've realized that my voice is both too high and too low.

@crazybagman: Hell that's technically a positive, I'll take it. And anything for a laugh. (Is it because of the Gerstmann thing mostly?)

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@htr10: @citizencoffeecake: @shozo: Thanks for the kind words and constructive criticism. And it was actually fun to feel like I knew what I was doing video editing (even though it was basically a lot of J and L cuts) and about 8 hours of work. And the thing people don't mention about VO is what to do if you hate your voice. It was a lot of self conscience repeating and then saying "I don't have time, I need to crank this out."

@baillie: @citizencoffeecake:I think it's a Canadian thing. Because apparently Geoff Keighley says Gerstmann the same way but I don't even notice. Or maybe even I say it even more messed up and I'm just an idiot.

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Okay so I made this thing last year for a class. It was a fairly open ended project about making a movie about something that interested you. I thought "hey I'm interested in Giant Bomb and think it could be an interesting story for people who haven't heard of it."

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And then I made this. And as much as I think it's annoying when people post something they create with a dismissive tone, this thing is rough as hell. I recorded the audio with nothing but a laptop mic and I barely know how to edit video. Still I think it'd be neat if to share it, even just for me to get used to people seeing anything I do.

It is seven minutes though.

Oh and that animated intro and the beginning is totally someone else's work. Apologies.

I should also mention that when I say school I mean University. Though I would not blame you if you thought it was a high schooler's project.

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@mrcraggle: Think there's gonna be a season 4? On one hand people seem to like KI on the other it doesn't seem like the numbers are that high. Not low but not high either.

But as Microsoft's quasi answer to SFV and the quality it'd be smart to keep it up.

Though season 4 for a story seems pretty far and maybe too late.