it's a Documentary! About Gamers!

[amalthya]

GenCon Fan Film Festival!

<i>Life With the Dice Bag</i> has been selected to be shown at GenCon Indy 2004 Fan Film Festival!

Gen Con Indy 2004 runs August 19th-22nd and the film will be shown daily at 11:30 am and 6:30 pm in room 209.

For more information, visit www.maysun.org!

 

[Trainz]

Thank you so much! What did you think of it?

Well, I had a good time watching it. It's interesting to see those fellow geeks express their RPing experiences and POV's. The "animated" featurette made me laugh quite a lot actually. It's a bit too fast, but it was for the most part intelligible.

NOW THAT SAID...

Next time you make one of those, get someone who knows how to:

A) Record sound and

B) Mix sound (especially the music track mix).

You will loose big points on those, and they are ridiculously easy to achieve with minimal work and gear. For example, at one point there is a guitar track that plays while someone speaks and his (her ?) words are drowned. In that specific case the problem isn't really volume (well, a bit), it's TONE. The guitar is too bright. lower the highs on the guitar track and adjust the mids (don't touch the bass) and you will ear the person much better, as the FREQUENCIES of the guitar track will not overlap with the frequencies of the person's voice.

It's too bad, because the documentary itself is quite good. Sometimes, you can barely make out what the interviewed are saying because the "background" music is too loud.

I highly recommend you re-mix the whole thing before Gen Con (you DID keep the original unmixed audio and video tracks now, did you ?), and you might actually score gold.

My two cents (I'm a musician, couldn't help it).

But I liked it and will watch it again with my players sometime.

 

[amalthya]

Well, I had a good time watching it. It's interesting to see those fellow geeks express their RPing experiences and POV's. The "animated" featurette made me laugh quite a lot actually. It's a bit too fast, but it was for the most part intelligible.

I'm so pleased that you liked the animation -- it's usually pretty popular.

NOW THAT SAID...

Next time you make one of those, get someone who knows how to:

A) Record sound and

B) Mix sound (especially the music track mix).

You will loose big points on those, and they are ridiculously easy to achieve with minimal work and gear. For example, at one point there is a guitar track that plays while someone speaks and his (her ?) words are drowned. In that specific case the problem isn't really volume (well, a bit), it's TONE. The guitar is too bright. lower the highs on the guitar track and adjust the mids (don't touch the bass) and you will ear the person much better, as the FREQUENCIES of the guitar track will not overlap with the frequencies of the person's voice.

It's too bad, because the documentary itself is quite good. Sometimes, you can barely make out what the interviewed are saying because the "background" music is too loud.

I highly recommend you re-mix the whole thing before Gen Con (you DID keep the original unmixed audio and video tracks now, did you ?), and you might actually score gold.

My two cents (I'm a musician, couldn't help it).

Mason, the director/producer/editor realized this much later on -- it being his first full-length film, he worked especially hard on the editing. And struggled a bit. We'd actually already submitted it to Gen Con. Perhaps after we go through this run of DVDs we'll re-issue it with the sound fixed.

But I liked it and will watch it again with my players sometime.

This is the best review of all Really, I'm so pleased you enjoyed it.