Overwhelmed!

A Stop-Motion melee where 49 French Grenadier riflemen get over-run by hundreds of wild barbarians. I guess you could say that it didn't work out too well bringing a gun to a knife fight this time.

A little info on this one: I shot this over a period of about 10 days (didn't shoot all day or everyday) mostly when my family was out of town visiting relatives. My curious kids couldn't destroy the figures while I was at work. (Note I began shooting this one the day after I finished Panzer Parade, which you can also watch on You Tube.)

These are 54mm French figures for wargaming. I had them in the attic for ages. The silver guys I got at Target in the bargain bin.

Every picture is 4 frames (2/15th of a second). Kind an odd duration but that was good for the pace. At 10 frames/second it was just too fast. All of the pictures (except for 4 or 5 at the very end were shot with a cheap-o web cam that can never decide if it wants to focus on the soldiers or on the dining room lights across the room...
I edited this using my copy of Adobe Priemere Elements 3.0 on my scratch built computer with Vista X64. That sucks bigtime since that program is not FULLY compatible with Vista X64. I had to manully reduce every single picture from 150 frames to 4 frames. With 1,368 frames in this movie that is a grueling process. If the program was fully compatible I could default the picture stills to 4 frames, but conflicts with X64 stalls out the whole operation...
The sound was done on Adobe Audition. The mand screaming at the beginning is me as well as the French officer. The battle sequence is from a grab bag of movie sources. You have probably heard all of this audio before, but just not mixed in these layers and in this order. If you can tell me in detail from where you have heard these sound effects before I will give you a cookie. Good luck and enjoy!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Stop
• Motion
• Battle
• toys
• 54mm
• French
• Grenadiers
• Barbarians

[hankster183]

hey during 1:29 to 1:31 why were there army men under the battle. oh yeah and at 1:27 i heard a laser shot i guess you were just mashing the soundeffects together to make it sound different which i enjoyed hering but it made me curios why?

[Partini01]

@hankster183 I am glad you found enough action in my little movie to pick out little details! Those guys way down on the floor... the one being attacked is a US Marine with an M-16 laying waste to the attcking crowd. As for the laser shot, I was very careful not to put something that wasnt supposed to be there in the movie. I listened to the original, and it was just a loud sword CLANK or something like that. As far as I know, I don't think I have any laser sound effects I could have used!

[Partini01]

@hankster183 So did you like the battle? Did you see any of the other ones? In Panzer Parade there is also a little tiny spot of action way in the back ground on the floor.

[taiko729]

what program did u use for sound effects plz respond

[Partini01]

I already had a huge sound library that I gathered over the years. I created the soundtrack in a program called Adobe Audition. It was an older version that worked like a champ. I would export to a MP3 or a WAV file and then put that in the soundtrack of Adobe Premier Elements (el cheapo). simple and reliable!

[taiko729]

k and where did u get the gunshots or did u just record yourself making them

[Partini01]

Until I actually get a good audio recorder and an array of muskets shooting , I had to take some shortcuts. If you are a war movie buff, I'l bet you have heard all of these sound effects from some of your favorite movies. Find a good battle scene with no music and record the audio. In this one, most of the musket shots are from Gods and Generals. The sword fights and yelling is mostly from Braveheart. Have you seen my other movies?

[Callofduty4nub]

at 00:54 that part reminds me of that movie 300!

[okieboyz]

Cool. I can't imagine the hours of work that goes into such a project. And the swords, they sounded real!

[Theoriginalwobba]

good video, i think parts can be alittle crude in ways but ive watched a few of your videos and i think they are very good

[crudesicle]

the last of the mohicans?

[hankster780]

hey its me hankster183 my account got deleted by a certain someone but im still here.

[hankster183]

oh i guess it does bare a resemblance

[SilverMaiden]

Do you know what would've been fun? If you would have seen the battlefield from across the room (during the battle) and you see how tiny it is, and you could have very "tiny" sound effects, and make it seem so insignificant :)

[EmperorofTerra]

lol XD ..... Kinda weird, but fantastic work ^^

[taiko729]

i have gods and generals but can u split up the gunshots