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The Front Row Crew Forum Potential Creative Project (aka Project Shittalk)
I think this needed its own thread from the extensive conversation carried on in the Random Comments Thread.
For reference: http://forum.frontrowcrew.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7591/random-comments#Item_11090
For reference: http://forum.frontrowcrew.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7591/random-comments#Item_11090
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- Voice acting
- Foley
- Editing (both audio and video)
- Audio cleanup and post processing
I would have added "music" in there, but I happily yield to those on the forum more capable than I.The Galactic Empire has ruled over all of space through a combination of brute force and technological prowess for millennia. However, life has changed remarkably within the past century due to the leaking of the nucleo-hyper warp engine. Suddenly, the Emperor's best kept secret, a power that allowed him to dispatch battleships at near instant speeds without time distortion can be purchased by anyone brave or foolish enough to ask around. A new era of communication, culture, and grey-market trade has overcome the galaxy. For the first time in centuries, an event has disrupted the authority of the autonomous government.
More full disclosure: I interpreted the tone as a humorous, somewhat kiddish show. Sorry to disappoint anyone expecting a gritty, action packed Space Marine vs. Space Pirate romp. Totally feel free to ditch this part of the pitch:
Precocious Orphan Newcomer spent his whole life on a harsh wasteland planet, living a dull and unassuming life working on the farm equipment at his uncle's electrolyte farm. Suddenly, new traders started appearing on the planet, and they were friendlier, cooler, and stranger than any of the stuffy empire merchants that would visit once every cycle. They started telling stories about far off lands, and PON knew he needed to find a way onto one of these vessels. Unfortunately, no one would ever pick up a PON who hasn't even adjusted to zero gravity, let alone seen the inside of a ship, until one day...
The FTL Retail Corporation suffered a grievous loss due to sheer negligence. A short circuited wire/accidental fat fingering/criminal act(!?!) caused an unexpected space pod to eject. In it, contained one of the most vital members: a chimp that they trained to clean the ventilation shafts and other hard to reach places. They needed a new cabin-boy, and the price of chimps had just skyrocketed. After a series of sitcomy twists that involves PON successfully fixing the nucleo-hyper warp engine with a well timed whack of a wrench, he finds a new job aboard the pirate's flagship as the new grunt laborer.
In my head, I'd compare PON to Charlie from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He's energetic, he's aware he has the short end of the stick, but he also knows not to act up. He fancies himself an engineer, constantly reworking wires and dispatching mechanic words that he doesn't understand, but he has an invaluable luck that makes him indispensable.
Also, many of the extras on the crew would be snarky robotic members that are indestructible. Whenever they need to repair themselves (or just at the start of the episode), they tend to switch parts, so that the violent psychopath suddenly has the maid equipment, and the Spock-like logician has six blasters.
As for the Space Marines, I envision a Zenigata-like figure who I have christened Inspektor Hektor. Yes, he has a German accent and monocle. He has an infinite number of marine grunts at his disposal, as well as a closer cabinet of absolute badasses, most of whom are parodies of well known characters.
Oh, and yes, the state of the galaxy is supposed to represent the modern day internet, with the pirates acting as explorers and committing borderline illegal activities, while the marines are the powers trying to restrain the spreading of ideas (RIAA, guv'ments, etc.). The pirates may even explore planets with cultural structures clearly based on certain dwellings of the internet, from the most corporate ad-filled IGN to the annoyingly "democratic" Reddit.
Hate it, love it, don't even acknowledge its existence, I don't mind. Figured I'd try throwing my pitch on the table.
Things I can do
- Draw the pictures
- Animate
- 3d Model
- Write
- Design, especially mechanical things
Things I Can't Do
- Devote lots and lots of time to this project
Seriously! I'm editing a book, writing two more, making a video game, working a job, making a comic book, and occasionally even sleeping! I really want to help on this, but your access to my free time will be spotty at best. So whatever you come up with has to be concrete or I won't be able to do much.
Things I can do: write....that's kinda it.
Anyway, I'm in! I can do comics, digital art, logo making and have experience doing those things for clients as well. I have a small skill set in video editing in Sony Vegas and currently learning green screen techniques since, I just got new lighting and a green screen. ^_^ I am not very skilled in animation, I just know the most basic of stuff from taking it years ago.
I don't have a job currently so I have a valuable resource at the moment. Time.
I would like to do something visual. If not animation, but a short film. Doable, but then everyone involved with that better have a good mic.
I'm tempted to call this creative forum motley crew Studio shittalk. :P
We all write 2-3 page short stories based on our experiences as geeks. Based on my experience writing in screenwriting classes, this comes out to about 2 minutes of media. All of the stories will be put into a shared folder on Google Drive with a number from 0 to however high it goes assigned to it. Then we have a random number generator pick a number within that range.
We read it and vote on three factors: if it CAN be produced; if it should be an animation, an audio drama, or a comic; and if we should do it now.
If it is voted on that it can't be produced, then it gets cleaned up and posted somewhere for all to read as a short story with maybe a single illustration. End of Line. If it passes that stage, then we move on.
Based on the votes of what kind of media it should be, the story then is tagged as such.
Finally, If it's voted that it should be done now, then whoever thinks they have time to work on it will sign their name on the top of the story along with what they plan on doing for it. Whoever originally wrote the story will be the lead and in charge of delegating the work.
We work on, at most, two stories at a time. This ensures that something actually gets done. If anyone want's to work on a story independently, that's up to them but if they have committed to a project then that should be the priority.
My suggestion is that we start simple with story board style videos: Audio drama sound mixed with illustration. Once we get some momentum, then we bump up to full animation.
What do you folks think?
Also, if we don't want to keep this entirely in-house, I know many of the big MLP fandom voice actresses/actors.
The way you describe it makes it seem like we can actually work on multiples if we wanted to. Of course I suggest starting with one.
I think 2-3 pages would be a lot. People like comedic bite sized things online. At the most 2-3 minutes which is roughly a page or page and a half.
Also, another suggested idea: In the vein of Victor's idea, why just just stories about the more hilarious moments from the forum. The ones not too inside baseball.
I'm for the personal experiences in life idea.
The other half will be "The Best of Nine". His representation will be a humanoid figure covered in question marks.