+psypher+ wrote:
Another great battle report! Watching these, they really make me want to start playing the game again. I must get some painting done!
I enjoyed the little comments like 'Thats a lot of horse meat for Tescos' when the Cannon of Khorne opens fire on the R'Riders in turn one and also in turn two as the Bloodletter charges into close combat "Hello" he screams. very good
Although it has nothing to do with the action of the game...what about a little atmospheric music after explaining the armies whilst panning over the armies, likewise with the battlefield and also between the turn sequences when you show the VP stats? Though I guess it would take you longer to edit and probably be a pain to do.
But like I say, another excellent and entertaining report! Keep them coming!
If this trifling of a report inspires you or anyone else to start playing again then I'm thrilled!
About the jokes: With the exception of maybe a dozen or so stories, I singlehandedly ran a satirical news website called "Forwardslashnews" for roughly a year, chalking up 900+ stories/comedy articles. I find it hard not to joke about things I'm involved in, something people here may have noticed on the odd occasion. I wasn't sure whether or not this would be something people would appreciate. Maybe some people would prefer no jokes at all, I dunno... Don't hold back in coming forward to let me know what you think about this!
I won't pretend that the editing is anything other than a major pain in the arse. There are a lot of cuts and for some reason Windows Movie Maker doesn't like multiple cuts in a short succession of time. On a couple of occasions the whole movie crashed because of over cutting. I've learned the hard way to save, save and save again when editing footage. Markconz' comment was particularly pleasing because those close combat cuts are some of the trickiest for WMM to deal with (it seems).
So far as music goes, yes, a bit of mood music probably would be a good idea... The last report I had posted up was a real mess in terms of the sound, caused entirely because my PC couldn't handle recording sound on Audacity AND playback my video at the same time! That problem was solved this time by posting a mute version to YouTube via a second account, and playing it back on my telly via Xbox and commentating to Audacity on the PC while watching the playback. This time the one and only focus was to make it listenable. Music is likely to muddle that, although I have to say it works very well on Hena's videos. He does have a calmer commentary style to me though, so maybe not a great idea. The one other thing I'd mention is that I worry about posting music on the videos because I fell foul of Youtube's copyright rules the last time with a Ministry track (Hero). For some reason they don't have a problem with Faith No More which is great because they are my favourite band!
I'd be interested to know how people got on with my accent this time. I did the very Glaswegian thing of talking at 100 miles an hour but this was caused by the speed of the cuts between actions - I had to explain quickly!
I did try to trim the footage so make the report as exciting as possible and I did cut right back on my set up and army introductions as this was something which I and many others felt ran on too long in my first effort. I'm hoping I maybe got the balance right there.
Something I hadn't considered was that a few people not familiar with Epic or 40K have remarked that they struggled to understand which vehicles / infantry were which but I don't know if there's much I can do about that...
Any other suggestions much welcomed!