Well, this is my first try at machinima, so I hope I didn't do too bad.
First. What is HALO: WAR JOURNAL?
I came up with this series almost two years ago. It follows the life of Private Li-Chen, a soldier/battlefield photographer (Similar to Pvt. Higgins from ST: Roughneck Chronicles) and the unit he's with, a battalion from the UNSC's 1st Army Division, as they face the invading Covenant threat.
Now I originally came up with 25 short episodes and one 30min-1hour short film, which is 'Last Dance'. Unfortunately, I lack support so I'll never see this thing take off, but I am working on a website with all the scripts and will be posting the url along with one of my future videos.
Anyway, so here's the description on 'Last Dance'. 6 weeks after taking 'Mt. Olympus', the surviving 300 members of the 416th Infantry Regiment along with several other units, are sent to Dawn, a colony about to be attacked by a Covenant Armada. Since the enemy is superior, the plan was to use most of the units (who are at full strength) to hold off covenant ground forces while the civilians are evacuated. However, the 416, in its weaken state, is ordered to help evacuate the civilians, and also not to engage the enemy for any reason. And if the covenant manages to enter the city, all military forces are ordered to halt the evacuation and get the hell out of Dodge.
The rest should be easy to figure out from the trailer.
A few scenes didn't work out the way I wanted to like the one with the warthog ramming a wraith, and the one I tried to imitate from 'Saving Private Ryan', the part where the airborne troops were on top of a panzer and got cut down by the germans' heavy gun. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
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