| My first rFactor film and entry into the rFactorCentral.com 2008 Video Competition! It's been a learning experience from to go; I barely had enough time to complete it yet alone polish it to a standard I would have liked, I started shooting only 2 days before the deadline when I finally got the time off. Work Times: 8-10 hours filming. 12-15 hours editing. 6 hours encoding - 3 versions. 5 hours uploading. (Thanks HD) Definitely the fastest 48 hours of my life. I actually submitted the video before I completed it. It only cost me a weekend to make. :-) So about the film, I'm brand new to the rFactor film scene but I've been gaining enthusiasm for rFactor for a few years. Bringing over my experience with BF2 machinima I'm used to having total control over where and how I use the camera. I appreciate in rFactor it's a little more difficult with the free cam; being inherently jerky, though I try to be as smooth as possible. Using track cameras for the whole film would have been unacceptable. I designed for a natural progression through the film while trying to be unique via the undertaking of small micro-story elements throughout the scenes at a medium pace with upbeat music and exciting action, rather than just a montage of random clips bogged down on emotion. It features a cocktail of music segments courtesy of Immediate Music, Corner Stone Cues, Muse and Hybrid. It wasn't perfect with the amount of footage I was rushing to capture but some moments worked as I hoped. I also ... |
