Sennybridge Part 1, a Basho film about "The Chernarus Conflict"

PART 1

A few weekends ago my airsoft brothers and I were players at the TA Event's, "The Chernarus Conflict". This was a 24 hour Milsim game using the, freshly revised, BattleSim rules developed by Iain of TA Events.

To those of you who play computer games, the country of Chernarus may ring a few bells. As anyone who loves the Arma series of games from Bohemia Interactive will tell you Chernarus, or Black Russia, is a fictional post-USSR country somewhere in the East that is used as the main game location. TA Events have licensed the entire storyline from Bohemia meaning that players at the event could sign up to the various factions found in the series. When someone says that you should get out from behind the keyboard and get some exercise, these events enable you to re live the brilliant, in-depth storyline for (almost) real. A detailed account of the factions and background to the event can be found here and it has a very professional depth to it not usually available to airsofters.

About the film

For a while now I have been trying to find a way to add "context" to the filming of airsoft play. It is often very hard to tell what is going on, who was shooting who and where the enemy are on the screen. I have been trying to think of an answer to this for weeks. Finally I hit on the idea of us being "spied" on by a US Satellite who could act on behalf of the viewer and provide an overlay to bring the "tactical view" into the film.

I hope it worked.

Airsoft is not scripted. Everything you see is as it is. Often situations don't pan out how you would like (as a filmmaker), and you cant cut what you didn't film. My answer, at the moment, is to saturate the event with cameras and hope to catch some gold nuggets. On this event I got one shot I absolutely love, that of DA1 firing his Support Gun over my head. I love that shot, not least because he was shooting at someone who had just slotted me! The BB's streaming out of the barrel look great. I hope to capture many more like that in the future.

Anyway, here is my film of the event. I have had fun making it, although it was a lot of work to cut the 20GB(!) of footage down-- a one moment it was over 24 minutes long! - In order to upload it I have had to split the YouTube version into two. Of course the Vimeo version is full length (I love those guys).

I am getting reports of sync issue with some of the sounds in this film, so try the Vimeo version if you encounter them. It is at http://vimeo.com/12426527

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Airsoft
• milsim
• TA events
• delta alpha
• Basho Films
• bashocam
• review
• headcam

[Robsterlord]

Amazing editing skills :)



[bashomatsuo]

Why thank you :)

[hamster700]

wat this got 2 do with chernarus

[defconmissilesystem]

there is a new chernarus conflict this year

:) cant wait

[defconmissilesystem]

fibua

[defconmissilesystem]

nice