*FROM THE VAULT* Alaska is Missing

I've recently decided to release some of my unfinished work that otherwise would never see release. Some of it is incomplete, or purely conceptual and a great deal of it is very unpolished. I likely will never pursue any of these fragments to completion, but I thought it would be fun to share some of the things that I've worked on in the past, that, for one reason or another, got left behind.

And all that could have been. . . "Alaska is Missing."

There was a flyer posted to a light pole last year at a college that I attended that read "Alaska is Missing" (Alaska being a cat). Me and my friends joked about embarking on an epic quest to find Alaska. I thought the headline "Alaska is Missing" was catchy and could be a good title for a movie, so I pursued the idea through film of two guys out to "find Alaska." This little short was a concept and essentially the first scene of a larger project. The live action footage is actually still photography taken with my Macbook Pro's internal iSight camera. The Halo footage was taken from Halo Custom Edition. This was my first time using Halo Custom Edition and I was really inspired by the amount of freedom it allowed compared to traditional Halo machinima techniques that all of my previous Halo work was made with (using system-linked Xbox's and generating the footage with a capture card). Initially, "Alaska is Missing" was going to be a fairly-lengthy surreal movie utilizing Halo CE to the fullest (using it's ability to spawn and control characters, vehicles, and weapons in front of a green screen backdrop). I decided to drop the project mainly because my interest in Halo as a filming engine was waning. After the whole Microsoft "Game Content Usage Rules" fiasco I (somewhat reluctantly) decided that I'd be better of creating work that I knew for a fact was mine in its entirety. This is the last piece of work I made with Halo and I have no plans at this point of going back (but never say never, right?)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• halo
• machinima
• one
• way
• ticket
• terminal
• dogs
• red
• vs
• blue
• alaska
• is
• missing
• krad
• productions

[pwnedmedia]

id suggest a few things

1. angle and light the subjects the same

2. alaska??

3. actually record your voice

4. never use ms sam