Halo 2: The Machinima Picture (14)

The Covenant has found Earth. Equally surpising is the size of their small attack fleet. Regardless, they ain't comin' in our house without a fight!


Halo 2: The Machinima Picture
After making my game-collage-film for Halo, I acquired some new hardware that greatly benefited the production of my Halo 2 gamefilm. This new tool allowed me to separate the audio from the video and reinsert where needed. Now I could have Cortana telling you the important information about the game, and not have to show that "exact spot" where she tells you. So the creative options were massive.
Again, just as the one I made last year for Halo 1, this game collage is all about 'story.' So you don't see every weapon used or every vehicle driven. This is not a video walk-through of the entire game, it is a two hour (as-close-to-a-movie-as-I-could-make-it) collage. Made for myself, my brother and my Halo clanmates.
A few "creative liberties" I took this time around include using the "BLIND skull" (found on the level 'Outskirts') to remove the HUD. This makes for a more comfortable view than always looking through the Chief's visor. When I did show the Chief and the Arbiter in 1st person, I over-saturated the Chief's view and under-saturated the Arbiter's. In other words... the Chief has a cool new helmet so 'he sees brighter,' and the Arbiter has been shocked and branded so 'his eyesight is dimmer.'
No matter how many times I reloaded the cinema for the Arbiter's branding, the spot where his helmet hits the floor wouldn't compose quick enough. The background would finally load just as the scene was changing. So I left the helmet-drop out. It took away from the 'seriousness' to see the helmet fall - then the background appear. Also, after viewing all 4 intros for the level "Metropolis", I chose the normal difficulty scene. Here Johnson says the Prophet of Regret's name and I felt like that keeps the story relative, not to mention plugging the alien invader.
The "Another Day at the Beach" cinema scene was created while the map-guys at BUNGIE were designing the new Halo 2 multiplayer maps. I loved it as soon as I saw it, when I got my copy of the Multiplayer Map Pack disc. Halo 2: the Machinima Picture would not be complete without it, so I did my best to insert it in the proper spot. For those who may not know, I'm speaking about the cinema scene where Second Squad is shot down by the Scarab and encounter a cloaked Elite. That scene is not in the game itself.
More on target with the way BUNGIE loves the number 7, I chose to only show the Arbiter activate 7 pistons. There are a total of 13 they make you go through in the game. "Fun with numbers."
Last but not least, I did what some may deem... heresy... lol. I chose to mix-up the final cinema scenes and put them into a more (I feel) congruent order. I also outright stop one cinema scene to show one of my music-video style cuts, then we go back to finish the cinema.
This time around, it only took me five weeks to complete, as opposed to the six or seven the first film took. I actually did 'more' in 'less' time, thanks to a number of factors. If any were wondering, "no" I can not sell or make more copies of this. I post it here on the Internet for the few fans who might care to watch. Enjoy.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• halo
• xbox
• machinima
• bungie
• fanfilm
• master
• chief
• unsc
• space
• game

[MayorTrent]

Kamisama, one of the things you put here, but that lacks in some other playthroughs are the scenes when other fighters (your support) kill enemies as well.

It makes the "movie" more realistic, and it eliminates the idea that only the hero can kill the enemy.

[kamisamajedi]

My thoughts exactly. Thanks for commenting and watching! My Halo 3 picture should be done later this year, and you'll see plenty of ass kickin' UNSC action. :)

[yourmomm212]

amazing job great vid could watch 100 times

[kamisamajedi]

Thanks!

[Sutmignuu]

yeah amazing job you workin on halo 3 ?

[kamisamajedi]

"Yes and no." The Halo 3: the Machinima Picture is in pre-production on my harddrive (and it will be completed) but at the moment I'm not getting much time to work on it.

Thanks for the compliment and watching!

[ItsDaKoolaidDude]

huh. so thats wut a mac round looks like! a frickin giant ass bullet

[Jowil1030]

omg 4:20 - 5:27 i had no idea that's what all the noises were, or any idea what any of that really was, obviously i didn't take time to look around on this level, holy crap. thanks, now i know. great vid, and excellent use of blind skull

[sncat09]

I think you are asking for "Blow me Away" an Awesome song from Breaking Benjamine made only for the game, altough you posted this 5 months ago, maybe you already know it :P..

[MayorTrent]

Whats inuendo?

[mrkuhn2]

whats the song started at 3:36?

[CupCakeAndMe]

this video has so many inuendos i nearly died of laughter XD

[1995jordan]

at 2:31 the grenade makes the elite do a backflip lol

[Soldierofdoom444]

little advice: raise the difficaulty to heroic so the marines and the elites have major loses on both sides