Participate In a Day of Defeat Movie!

dodforever

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Hello all!

I would like to invite the day of defeat community to participate in an original day of defeat movie project.

First off, I hope the moderators don't mind me posting this here. I think this project strongly relates to the dod game and I am only trying to help boost the community. Your support would be greatly appreciated!

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Brief Movie Info
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The overall theme for the movie is a historic look at the Day of Defeat from beta until today. It will be a mixture of Day of Defeat 1.3 and Day of Defeat: Source footage. As well as historic elements of past beta days, important events, and other related material. ...And of course, cool frag footage.

This is an ambitious project, meant to be as professional grade as possible and therefore you can expect a fair amount of 3D, Special Effects, and meticulous editing involved. A custom edited & mixed soundtrack will lay the foundation.

We have dedicated visual effects artists, mappers and editors from the community lending their talents for this project.

If I had to drop a style reference--it'd be roughly based of the style of the Day of Defeat Source trailer and other Valve dod mini-movies, but more grand in scale. To emphasize, this is meant to look polished and not amateur, we're putting lots of time and energy to ensure this!

Besides containing the usual exciting frag section, we have decided to include a kind of prologue sequence. This opening scene revolves around a dramatic allied take over of a bunker inside Day of Defeat classic map: dod_hill. You can maybe consider it a kind of BF1942-style intro, but for Day of Defeat.

This is what we're filming right now.

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What you get for participating!
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Everyone who participates, however little (even just by showing up), will receive a full name credit in the movie. Ideally (that is if you provide us with the information we need), your credit will be "FirstName "TAG" LastName (Clan)" or a similar variation.

In addition to credits, we would like to reward your time spent helping us make this movie by offering a few prizes.

There are 3 different prizes you can win:

1. $20 Steam Gift Certificate
2. HL1 or HL2 Game Server (either public or private) for 3 months. You pick the game, mod, addons, etc.
3. 50GB Webspace & Seedbox on my 1Gbit Up/Down bandwidth server (it's quite fast!) for 3 months.

Each award of the 3 awards will be given out twice, using a random raffle based on participation. There are 24 more scenes to be filmed and each time you participate we will save your steamID you automatically receive one raffle ticket. The more you participate, the more times your name/id will be entered. So if you're there for all 24 scenes remaining, you'll have that many more chances to win. If you win, you will have a choice to pick which prize you'd like, assuming it hasn't already been taken. Each person can only win once.

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So you're interested? Here's how to join us…
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1. Join the dodForever Movie steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dodforevermovie
2. Send us an email with you name, tag, clan and steam name. Send email to [email protected]

Some people have expressed caution about spam and email. Well, this project is real (we've already had two events) and we would never spam you or anything like that. The only reason we ask your info is so we can credit your name in the movie credits properly. An email would make things much easier than having to track you down later. If you're still reluctant, that's ok, the most important thing is you join the steam group as all immediate information is posted there.

To participate you must have the following:

a. Latest update of Day of Defeat: Source installed
b. Ventrilo installed and updated.
c. Ability to listen to our directions and role-play certain parts/roles (no worries, it's not overly complicated).
b. Patience, there may be some downtime while we explain directions to everyone or organize since there will be large groups of participants involved.

All details, such as server and connection information is available within the steam group announcements and info sections. If you have any questions please feel free to email us ([email protected]) or message "Vlad" from the steam group.

Thank you all so much for your help! We really appreciate it.

Have a pleasant evening.

-Vlad & dodForever Movie Team

P.S. Some of you have special talents or experience in visual effects, editing, 3D work, demo camera smooth capture etc. If you are interested in working with us, we would love your help! Just send us an email (to [email protected]) and let us know what you're interested in working on. Thanks.
 
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I'll be the Brave American Capatain who gives his life for the last surviving brother of four, and I'll tell the last Brother to Earn it. Then blow up a tank with my pistol, and then realize it was really the Tank Busters flying over.
 
I'll be the Brave American Capatain who gives his life for the last surviving brother of four, and I'll tell the last Brother to Earn it. Then blow up a tank with my pistol, and then realize it was really the Tank Busters flying over.
Then ill laugh when you get sued for copy infringement :P
 
Can I be a guy that has a cameo screaming "I NEED A MEDIC!" then never appear in the film again? if not, then no, I'm not interested.
 
Look, I came up with that on the spot, just like the story I made where my 1st Knight Stormy betrayed me and laid with Tonux behind my back, so I chased him back to France, but then my son/nephew took my throne because he is a jerk so I had to go back to England and control stuff there.
 
Hey everybody,

Thanks for such an enthusiastic response! Into the second page already hah!

Anyhow, to answer some questions...

1. No I don't work for Valve (unfortunately, because I'd love to try their still-unreleased Source Filmmaker).

2. Cameos are negotiable. Where can I reach your agent so we can schedule an audition (you may have to sing, so please prepare 40s swing repertoire). Ok, ok..

I'm kidding of course.... Of course, I mean prepare 30s German drinking songs instead, hehehe.

Also, you all should know that we've already ran a few events, but we're just looking for more participants for some of the really high-volume scenes.

Please join the group, there is lots of information there.. We already have 43 members and counting, not that many showing up yet so please help us!

Thank you all again, and have a great night (or day--if you're on the other side of the world :P)

Best,

Vlad
 
Tell you what dodforever, ill kick it up a notch by giving every member who helps you out $10,000 Casino Cash!!!
 
I'll be the Brave American Capatain who gives his life for the last surviving brother of four, and I'll tell the last Brother to Earn it. Then blow up a tank with my pistol, and then realize it was really the Tank Busters flying over.

Where have I heard that from?...... Hmmmmm
 
for a sec i thought it was a documentary on the dod makers from the early days to valves takeover to source...that would be cool..counter strike and tf2 get to much attention..if i had my way i would have valve give the same amount of updates to dod as they do those crap games...wait now im just rambling..
 
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