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Subject: Custom Halo 3 Trailer (my first try)

Oh Yeah Megan Fox! And Final Instinct are pr0







hey MasterChief 0722 you must have read TRIPLE ZERO and HARD CONTACT. do you know what t'ad means ner' vod. =)

  • 06.08.2006 7:57 AM PDT
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Very nice

  • 06.08.2006 8:07 AM PDT
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cypher, you're getting way too pissed at people who don't especially like your movie. Just because its your first try doesn't mean they should automatically like it, considering its your first try they probably shouldn't. You shouldn't open up a new program, mess with it for 2 hours, and get a fan trailer made with divine grace. You're telling us not to make comments on your movie, not to bash the music. What we're doing is making suggestions to improve it. You can have guitar solos show the seriousness of the situation. Overall, use Halo music. That's like the music from Fable or Oblivion, its RPG. It's mystical. There is better music, music from Halo, that will fit this completely. Why I sound a bit pissed is because you're getting mad at people for giving you critcism. They did it the nice way, and since you got annoyed with them for it, I'm going to give it to you upfront.

1. The music. It's not Halo, it doesn't fit.
2. Use another font besides the Halo font. The Halo font is good for writing the word "Halo" with and nothing else. Bungie doesn't use it in their trailers, they use normal fonts (usually all capitals, keep in mind).
3. Most trailers include NO words. Yours includes a lot. Take some of that text out, its way overdone. The spacing in time between the words doesn't even help, because overall words just take away. The message should be sent through the video. I like the "In the beginning" text, but after that it was just too much. Maybe it could just be "In the beginning..." and then show a bunch of clips from Halo 1, slowly speeding up until it goes super fast, one picture per second sort of thing. Then a flash and it fades into Delta Halo. Then something like "Now, you're mankinds last hope." You don't need more text than that!! If we're seeing your trailer, we know what Halo is. Text overlaps video. We want to see the video, not text.
4. Also, everyone loves the badass line "Master Chief, would you mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?" "Sir, finishing this fight."

I enjoyed your trailer, I really did, but you need to not get annoyed with people who say they dislike your work. I get it all the time. I once made a half hour kids show parody and at first it sucked, but since I've fixed it and made it funnier and taken suggestions, I've had to increase my site's bandwidth....twice! You need to be open to suggestions. Some people will hate it, others won't. I liked it but it needs improvements. It's hard to part with what you think is right, but in the end if you're releasing it on a site like Bungie's site, you want to know what people think of it. If you're doing it your way, and its to make yourself happy, then leave it be. But posting it on here means you want some kind of feedback and you want other people to appreciate your work. So change your work, because in the case of posting it here, you're showing it to us to grade. Its like writing in a diary, you write for yourself. But if its an essay, you do it the way the teacher wants cause you're getting graded. And now you're getting graded, so go back and make revisions.

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  • 06.08.2006 9:05 AM PDT
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That was pretty good, I couldn't hear the music though. I don't have speakers at the moment.

  • 06.08.2006 9:20 AM PDT
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou


That was from Zephrix's sig, btw. However, I like the quote. So here's what I think. You people that don't like the music can open the video up in an editor, take it out and put something else in. The video is under a Creative Commons Share-alike license anyway, so you can do whatever you want. If you'd rather not take the time, then change your attitude and quit complaining.

This is a good time to rant... so here I go.

Once again, I didn't want to use the Halo music becuase that would just make it another generic Halo video. I wanted this to be different.

I do like the constructive comments, just not when they are about the music. FYI, it took me a very long time to find some music that I liked. The trailer wasn't supposed to be something to could play an air guitar to. And it wasn't supposed to be a "OMG! ROCK OUT!" music video. So, like I said above, change the music yourself, or... bite me.

About the text, I agree with you. It was long, there was too much. Ok, I admit to that. But I wanted to get all of it in, and putting it all in two scenes would have completely ruined it. I also wanted to get a lot of cutscenes in there, so I chose some that went with the text that was displaying on the screen (for example, when Victory was displayed, it played the scene with the crowd clapping, etc).

I considered "Victory or Defeat", but it sounded too generic. Plus, it remined me of those damn "Victory over de feet" commercials that I absolutely hate.

Overall, yes... I agree that SOME parts of the video sucked. The music was out of sync, the text was long and slightly boring. But, I tried. I'd just like it if people would stop bashing the music becuase I think that the composer did a very good job, and I thought the "mystical" feel went good with what I was trying to show.

So, again, if you don't like it, you can change it. Otherwise, quit complaining about it.

[Edited on 6/8/2006]

  • 06.08.2006 9:42 AM PDT
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Thanks for your response. I hope I wasn't a complete ass before. The music IS very good, but I just felt like it didn't fit Halo. It is magical and great, but I feel like its a more mystical feel, while Halo always makes me think of getting ready to go into battle, and I can understand not wanting to use Halo music so its not like every other Halo video (whats with using the theme? There are two whole Halo soundtracks to use music from). Of course, as I stated in my first post, if you like the music, it is your creation. I'm not going to go and edit your video for you, I have my own fan trailers to make :P It's overall good, and I'd think about maybe going in again, fixing up the text and the font and see if you can make improvements to it. Or make a new trailer, maybe a bit longer and less text heavy.

Its a good first attempt, I mean I remember my first attempt at Photoshop...*cringes* Well, I do have to admire you for posting a first-time creation. Not many people are admirable enough to do such a thing.

  • 06.08.2006 10:02 AM PDT
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I got a movie too, but im too stupid to know how to get it so you guys can watch it, I got working for media player, but ya.........lol

anyway, good movie

  • 06.08.2006 10:07 AM PDT
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Dont critcise us for trying to help you make it better.
First off, the music here are some points i think would improve it:-
1) A high end drone/pedal which can increase in pitch to build tension
2) A variation in the ostinato to also add effect of the juxteposition in victory and defeat
3) little more bass (this is only useful on proper showings of trailer)
4) A wider timbre and possibly depth (more instruments or different ones faded and brought up)
5) When text does appear use a small slash kind of sound to get attention brought to it

Secondly, some points mentioned already: the text is too much, we all like victory and defeat because its a classic phrase, its like having evil beat good, it doesnt happen or shouldnt otherwise people oppose it.

Lastly, nice try, but take these into consideration, and people if you want to improve/change/comment on my points please do so.

  • 06.08.2006 10:07 AM PDT
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Ben Nadler: Well... not a complete ass. :P

But yeah, I know you don't want to edit it for me. But, I'm not going to edit it, so I was just saying that if people really hate it that much, they can take it and turn it into whatever they want. That's what the CC Share-alike license is for.

I really did not mean to sound like such a schmuck. It only took me over an hour to put that together. It was really only a test, to see how UleadVS worked. In the end, I figured a few people around here might find it amusing. However, I didn't expect the total uproar of people who really hate it. Sorry to have wasted your time, everyone.

>.<

The video isn't going to be available for much longer anyway. It's already used up half on my bandwidth, and I've got other things to host that need some badnwidth, too.

The Pheonix: Honestly... I don't know what any of that msuic stuff meant. I didn't compose the music, so there's nothing I can do to add "juxtaposition-ism-itality"... or... whatever. :P

[Edited on 6/8/2006]

  • 06.08.2006 10:09 AM PDT
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How do I go about showing you guys my "Halo Tribute" I made it on Windows Movie Maker, and know got it working for media player, but how do I make it so you guys can see it too ?

  • 06.08.2006 10:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xandox
Armageddon... Wasn't that a movie or something? To be quite honest I was expecting a phrase like "The Difference Between... Victory, and..." I don't know, "Defeat?" Not movie titles, like "Matrix", "Lord of the Rings", "Davinci Code" or "Wedding Crashers". Oh well, to each his own. At least you took the time to make a Halo 3 trailer. I'm too lazy with work and school. You know, crap like that. Good job!


Umm....armageddon wasnt just a movie.....they got the name of the movie from what the bible calls the end of the world..."Armageddon".....so the word does fit with the trailer

  • 06.08.2006 10:26 AM PDT
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Umm....armageddon wasnt just a movie.....they got the name of the movie from what the bible calls the end of the world..."Armageddon".....so the word does fit with the trailer
Finally, someone gets it. :P

it kicked ass but it needs more asplosions
lol. Thanks, but I couldn't find very many "asplosion" cutscenes. :P

  • 06.08.2006 10:33 AM PDT
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Ok sorry too maybe i should have checked you made music, anyways you inspired me to make a trailer/clip (halo) so i will set about that and post its progress when its ready.

  • 06.08.2006 10:34 AM PDT

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to be truly honest i thought it sucked

  • 06.08.2006 10:41 AM PDT
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to be truly honest i thought it sucked
I think that point has already been made, thanks. You could have at least told me WHY it sucked instead of being a complete ass.

[Edited on 6/8/2006]

  • 06.08.2006 11:18 AM PDT
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ROOSTER BOOST your videos are -blam!- crazy! they rock!

  • 06.08.2006 11:59 AM PDT

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