Use this method to get your raw footage. By no means should this be your final product. I agree that this is a basic way to get raw footage. Left as is the sequence will yield yet another series senseless, mindless and pointless shots.If you want to edit on the cheap use windows moviemaker. It ships stock with MOST XP systems. If you are going to make a movie count on spending at least a month to learn how to edit and make your film. Write a storyboard. This is a comic strip sketch of what the movie is about and how you envision the movie. Stick figures are ok if you can't draw well. After all, nobody will see it. The storyboard helps you develop the narrative or plot in concert with the camera work. It also is a starting point for making the map in the FMB. Make sure that the viewer understands what is going on in the film. A good movie will be entertaining to someone that doesn't play the game. Music, sound score and foley(sp?) or sound effects. Choose a movie score or piece of music that will fit with the story. Too often the music is really slow during action sequences or heavy metal during slow takeoff sequences. Movie scores are the best bet. Why? Because movie scores are composed to convey the emotional backdrop of the story. Movie scores are instrumental and abstract compared to a Bob Dylan song that has lyrics. Lyrics will get in the way of telling the story. 'Everybody must get stoooned' doesn't fit a dogfight. While music is subjective it is also technical and oriented towards a venue, audience and format. Choose a score for your film carefully as it will determine the timing of your edits and sets the tempo for the entire film. Once the score is in, place timeline markers at the transitions in music. This makes a visual marker of the mood changes. Later, place timeline markers at the beats. Edit the video to the beats. Watch a t.v. commercial and count the number of edits. In a fast paced commercial you could see as many as 40 edits in a 30 second timeframe. Keep this in mind for the action sequences. Punctuate the editing by cutting on the beat. Folley (sp?), also known as sound effects, should be placed on a separate audio track. Use the explosion effects, artillery fire, bullets hitting metal, and screaming to spice up the movie. Camera control. Don't use the mouse. The mouse jerks around and doesn't look right. Mouse cameras are a sure fire way to be an amature. Use the function key buttons to track with. f6 f3 and f4 are your friend. One last comment. Nothing is worse than having an IL-2 being destroyed by a P-39. Use the aircraft in the proper scenario to the best of your knowledge. If you aren't sure if an aircraft was in such a battle at such a time, thats o.k. But there is no excuse for a series of American planes destroying Russian planes. I could go on about this forever. TX-KingsnakeWinner of the Video creation of the year (from IL-2 footage)for Stalingrad-1942
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