Well Im making miniseires based on the movies/book called War of the worlds any one who has halo ce and xfire who wants to help can. i need people who can be extras victoms (who die, run in panic, mobs, ect.)and some who stay with me long enough and will follow directions most of the time can be regulars in the mini-seires or guest stars . My nickname right on xfire now is [EJ]HailStorm. Contact me if your interested.

AHH y do i keep forgeting to whatch topics?

Yeah its still going the problem is that, even though i have many freinds including you who want to act they are never avalible at the same time. Do you have xfire?

Its the map the first episode is on and if you want to voice act I need an email...wait i have it from your profile. throught email or www.yousendit.com i'll send you scripts and you can send me your voice recordings for the character.

<hr size=1 color="#4D5E66" noshade width=250 align=left><font size=1>"I regect your reality and subsitute my own" -Adam Savage
Edited by EJHailstorm on Aug 21, 2005 at 08:41 AM
Edited by EJHailstorm on Mar 4, 2006 at 06:25 PM

well maps if your acting unless you already have them and xfire unless you already have it

Its a book two movies and an upcoming seires

Ok, this seires has come along way sense Sep 1, it has been promplty renamed to "Dust to Dust", it has acualy been demoted from filming stage, to preplanning and writing stage. We have a great writer that came to me, which was pretty cool, and so far me suppling ideas, and him putting them on hard and soft copies while adding his own flare and ideas. We are currently on episdoe 8 or 9 working toward a season finaly. Hopefully Slashrat (the writer) wil post and fill in the holes.

Well, here I am, the "great writer". Lol. I've been drafting the script by episodes to Hailstorm, and we're making progress with the series. Using a large green map, we can use the "greenscreen" effect to replace the background of filmed vehicles, etc. with other footage. This means that we will be able to "insert" anything we want into footage filmed on other maps. If we can get this to work, we can make longswords in woodlands, pelicans over the ocean, and many more ships in a scene than is really possible. I'm looking forward to the series. Hope you like it when it comes out.


Edited by slashrat on Oct 18, 2005 at 04:45 PM

Update! We have finaly convinced an anonomous mapper to make our greenscreen map, once its done it will be avalible for public download, but its kinda useless for people who dont have an editing program with greenscreen effects. but it should have alot of vehicles and bipeds. once its ready we can start filming the seires. = D contact me or slashrat if you want a copy of the script, or if you want to help.

mabye, i dont think so though, we have a different forum hosting the Dust-to-dust stuff, because we need lots of mappers. Oh the greenscreen map is done incase nobady knew! It'll be great.

The halomaps machinima section? Like most movies, I think so. At least while it's still new. I'm currently writing season 2.

k, hopefully this will be soon, we need to figure out a way to make everyone on the team knows whats going on without complete chaos. what about forwarding all series related emails?

Sounds good. On to episode 14!

wait, have you sent me 13?

beleive me we are already doing that, lol, we just want to make nobody misses out on the conversations, but thx forthe input

I didn't ever send you 13, because it's not typed yet. Lol. 14 is about 1/2 done.

well at not at my home pcright now, so I can tell ya'll much about whats going on, but from what i last heard, Slashrat is writting into episode 20 or something. IceDragon is working on Our custom map Probably called "New Galeton", and since i'm not the best mapper, I'm working on the special effects department that is not already in maps to take the strain off the other mappers on our team.

sure just so you know we are still in the pre filming stage - unless some of our actors would get new microphones >_> - do you have anything you can contribute till we start the audio/visual part? or if you have a microphone we could try to get organized the dialouge. Contact me on xfire (mine is hailstorm2991 ) and we can send you the current episdoes we have. as well as the latest map, and the contacts of the rest of the team.

do you have xfire? you will need it www.xfire.com like i told the other recruit, we are stiff in prefilming stage, fabricating a map from scratch. so don't expect any acting for a few months mabye less if our main character will get a new microphone>_> then we can start voice overs. once i get in contact i will send you the script will i think now consists of 17 episdoes (hard to tell sometimes)

every one who hasn't recieved the script please post and i'll send it by email or xfire

ok, before any one posts, make sure you have a microphone! and it works! i've said many times before that we are in the prefilming stage, only the trailer is being filmed, unless slashrat or icedragon (regualr not the more recent one) says other wise, we only need voice actors.

i mean a working microphone, we will get the voice overs before we even start filming, not while they are acting. Its nothing like halo 2

yes, but when you say "actor" do you mean voice actor? or a regualar actor?

to tell you the truth, I don't know, you would have to ask slashrat. He said it came with a video editing program as a bonus.

well, thats the beauty of recording! right now all you have to do is audition for a part. (realy all we have to do is make sure your voice is right for the character) once we dicide you are the chacracter you auditioned for all you have to do is record your part. just record a line, then leave a 5 seccond space (room for editing) bettwen where your line ends and another character's begins. once we talk to a voice-over actor in person we will work it out a little bit more.

Hmm... I check the forums after a month, and what do I find... lol.

I'll let you work with the auditions for now, Hailstorm. I believe most of the main characters are taken, but there are plenty of secondary characters who need voices. I'll figure it out when I have time.

By the way, I use Pinnacle Studio Plus version 9. just google it. Unfortunately, it's not free, so you probably won't want to use it unless you are committed to film making. Like moi.

hey everyone who was interested before heres my email

hailstorm2991@yahoo.com

and my xfire

hailstorm2991

if you still want to participate send me an email or a friend request with the description/subject

"Dust to Dust"

The reason I'm doing this is becasue frankly I have no idea how many of you are already my friends or not and how many I have already got back to. This way you will be forceing me to reply in a 24 hour period. Thx.

21 episodes written by slashrat. GJ! Ya'll know I'm always saying "we'll start filming soon" hopefully this time it will be, we are about to close up the drafting side of Dust to Dust and are going to start work on special effects that need to be taken care of.

Yes! Thx for replying, i was wondering when someone would for me so I wouldn't have to bump my own topic...Any way we are still underway, we almost have a trailer out, but we are working out the bugs to make it less confuseing for potential veiwers. I'm on vacation right now but when i get home thrusday i can fill you in. *thinks of anything i can add* well besides being several betas into the Dust to Dust map, Forming A2A (Ashes to Ashes) the Dust to Dust mapping team, and Slashrat finishing the script toping out a 28 episodes i think, thats pretty much it, lol. There is also some talk about publicly releasing A2A's map for multiplayer and/or single player. If you will post again I can put a link on the topic once the trailer is done- wait, actualy we will upload it... well, hope you are as excited as I am. Again we are still in need of voice actors, there are plenty of spaces to fill, along with acting. We are also working on a website to help us organize our members *will post link when i get home*.

"slow, but steady" would be a good way to describe us right now, we have many projects going at once, but hopefully if we don't rush this like most other machinima producers we can make something that has never been done before.


Edited by EJHailstorm on Jul 10, 2006 at 05:11 PM

I wouldlike to help i can act and Edit

my xfire is: em1234

Hmm... it's been 6 months since my last check here. I see helpful people. :) The series is now fully scripted. Thanks to IceDragon there are multiple filming sets that are being finalized as we go. As for the trailer, in a few days I won't have to post any more updates. I'll keep it at that. By the way, call me siliconmaster482. Sounds less... slashy. Lol. Mark Daniels says hi.

i got pinnacle studio 9plus

http://forum.gearboxgamezone.com/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=2486&start=lastpage

The trailer has been released in the Dust to Dust thread.

Check the new topic: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=2486

Should be more updated, and is also in the correct subforum. :D

We'd be glad for the help.


This goes for anyone who reads this topic- this is an outdated and semi-useless thread. We are using the other one now, so please follow the above link. Thank you.