Half-Life 'Till I Die

Very nice scenes and excellent quality, well done :thumbs:

However, pretty boring :|

Also clocks.
 
very nice, but could do with some action, more blowing up, and less of the gliding around side to side in each scene. that made it quite boring.

beautifully shot though :thumbs:

clocks fitted its slowness well, but it's overused in fan vids. try to be, like i said faster and more exciting. but no screamo. or maybe put breen speaking in the background.
 
Great, nice quality too. But the song overtook it after the vocals started. a instrumental song would be better. But the other things are great!
 
I like that it's not just some glorified action trailer. Some very beautiful scenes that I'd never noticed in the game.
 
I like it - some folks are saying it's boring in spots, but I think the slow pace was not only unexpected but it makes it unique.
 
Yea, its more about the scenery, which hl2 does better than any other game imo... Even though i listen to metal, i really like Clocks and Coldplay in general so i wont bitch about the music either....

So dude, you deserve a 'nj'.
 
Enjoyable and well made. I especially liked the slo-mo on the NPCs (welder / strider / gunship) and a few more would have been quite nice. Also no view of the portal storm from Episode 2? It's a pretty impressive view!

I love my Coldplay so thumbs up for Clocks, but I have a feeling youtube will send you a copyright infringement email and remove the music from the video :( Unless you are good friends with Chris?
 
The problem I have with Clocks is that it's simply too upbeat. You have this slow scenic video which currently seems to be the background to a Coldplay song. If I were listening to Coldplay, I wouldn't be watching a video, I'd be listening to it. Take now, for instance, when I just got distracted, doing other things for a few minutes, coming back and completely forgetting I was actually supposed to be watching a video rather than listening to the track, until I carried on writing this.

So the video's scenic, beautiful and well-done. The track's emotional and relatively calm. The two simply don't fit together. This is what gives it the 'boring' aspect. Not because it's a bad video, but because it's missing something. Whether that's action or speech, that's up to you. Perhaps even more scene changes. Also, doing a video for the whole length of Clocks is quite long. A lot of people stop watching a video when they realise how long it is.
 
That's actually a really great job. Love those shots and colouring. Simple and beautiful.
 
Yeah, just saw that. I've been looking at Weses videos for a while, and like your description says, you really are good at making simple things most beautiful. Man, this makes me want to get to recording!
 
Damn, I was expecting some video of how long he played through HL2 without dying once.

Also: Clocks.
 
Cool video. Love the slower approach to the games, unlike most of the other trailers it suggests that HL isn't just about killing the combine and saving humanity etc, that its about all the other things which happen throughout the games.
 
Thanks guys, I understand how some can find it boring. I'm big into music and videos, I like mixing it together. It is a rather long video and some people told me I should've shortened it, but then I'd have to take out some great scenes from the original version.

I suggest you watch some of my other videos if you thought it was boring, I had the idea for this when I was pretty new to machinima/music videos/game videos whatever you want to call it :) my latest ones are better to me, but some not made in HL2

As posted above, some of you might enjoy "Just Like Old Times" more:

http://www.vimeo.com/2775632

If not, there's plenty more of my videos you can check out
 
Like I said on youtube, you have a great eye for scenes. The choice of music (youtube is famous for soundtrack sacrilege and you could find much worse) doesn't bother me either in this video or in Just Like Old Times. I think Half-Half is flexible, and the simple act of playing it creates many memories that find many different songs. Your video wasn't about the experience of Gordon anyway, and didn't need to fit the feel of the story. Also, Half-Life is nowhere near as dark and serious as some people seem to make it out to be.

Btw, Just Like Old Times left me desperate to see what was through that very prosaic doorway. Nicely done.
 
Yeah, I actually just found out your old 'Feeling of Liberty' piece was featured on Overman's Blog a while ago and I hadn't had the time to watch it until now and it's also really really brilliant, though I didn't doubt you were good at making any game go with the rhythm so well. I know it's pretty old, and I'm only the 3,006th viewer and 101st person to rate it 'Awesome!' but anyway, yours are probably one of the best music videos I've seen.

Man, I'm in a good mood to day...


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i liked it. A lot. I think trailers work better with custom music though. And thats why in fan made trailers people try to pick completely unknown song's and themes.
 
In This Twilight is an awesome song, I realize. Being about nuclear winter or some such, I suppose it fits better, but it's not the lyrics that usually set the tone.
 
Otto-Grainer said:
The built in Source Recorder. Search it up and read all about it.
Click to expand...

Actually, this one was all made in Garry's Mod with the camera tool and Fraps. I just changed the games speed and moved the camera forward with the physgun. Pretty basic I know, but remaking it made me realize how much I've learned since then. :)
 
I thought there is no way you can get a camera that smooth with a mouse so you'd need either a Camera addon or used Demo Smoother, and I suspected Source Recorder because there was no lag at all in the big explosion sequences that would normally drop a few frames, and FRAPS just records what the Monitor sees rather a set of sequences split up in frames.


Oh, sorry, I realise the different video we're talking about then. :p
 
Oh yea, on some scenes I used the moving camera tool to get the demo smoother type of camera movements. I'm still learning demo smoother, it takes me a long time to set up a quick cinematic scene. Once I'm fully experienced with it, I'll use it for most of my future videos

The explosion sequence did drop the framerate quite a bit. It went to around 25 FPS. Fraps was set to record at 60 FPS. But it still looked good :thumbs:
 
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