Endulge me with ideas for Machinima.

[Sir. AlphaWhiskey]

Hey guys, I'm coming here to ask you to suggest some ideas for a Machinima I may enter into the Ivy Film Festival.. I have already entered a GTA IV film into the competition but I don't feel it is or could be as good as a BF2 film. So yea, I need some ideas on what I could film in Project Reality.

Thanks,
Alpha.


This has nothing to do with the Sir. Community

[Incomplete Spork]

Do a PR version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5vWS_Xx ... re=related

[Airsoft]

BlackHawk Down

All the bf2 ideas seemed good but seems like they all died.

[thecoolj85]

dont do bh down imagene how many times it has been done do something fresh and funny use something besides bf2

[mp5punk]

no do not do a black hawk down movie i am working on my script for a good one right now.

[TheParadoX]

Black hawk down = not original ^^

And now a european request: Please no "america rules" type movie. How about something more "realistic", as the name of the mod might suggest ? Maybe something about insurgents ? GIs looking for secret mass destruction labs that did in fact never exist but still led to a ridiculous war (whoops who said pleonasm ?)

Seriously, make anything but make something that shows how easy it is to die in real life and how happy we should be to live in a place where there is no war

Ok, you can bash me now ....

[Sir. AlphaWhiskey]

Seriously, make anything but make something that shows how easy it is to die in real life and how happy we should be to live in a place where there is no war

If you could whip up a short story that could spark some more responses, we might have something here.

[waldo_ii]

Here is something legitimately original:

Muttrah POW Rescue. A bunch of MEC have fortified some block on Muttrah (best if using the apartment complex), and USMC have to get the American prisoner trapped inside out safely.

First scene: Cobra hovering really high, taking pictures with gunner view for surveilance (background voice describing, black screen flashes for photos taken). Cobra returns to carrier, and USMC move out. There are snipers doing overwatch in hills, far off buildings (lone tower in the south?), Hueys go through hills and land in the city, on rooftops, etc. around target building. Marines move up to the target building, fighting along the way. Squad or two gets whiped out, dramatic music, bodies being slayed. (APCs can do insertions too, I guess). Target building is fortified with HMG nests, razorwire tank traps, etc. Marines go through blockade with LAV help, destroying a BTR with an AT4 along the way. Once marines are just around the building, snipers are in position (cuts to snipers, Marines stacked around corners, marksmen in buildings close, APC ready to extract the POW). Little bird inserts Marines on the roof, snipers give mark, snipers shoot, Marines storm the building. Cuts of brutal CQB action, awesomeness.

Whatdoyathink?

[youm0nt]

Do a PR version:

Although I doubt this would count as a machinima, but it could be a nice side project.

[torenico]

whatever u do, count whit me

[ReaperMAC]

Generation Kill on Operation Archer!

[badmojo420]

Generation Kill on Operation Archer!

Do the scene where they roll into Nasiriyah. But do it on Fallujah West. Doesn't even have to be Generation Kill based, just a scene where its all calm rolling in, then all of sudden the city erupts in AK fire, RPGs and hajis running every direction. I've had a few times playing insurgency driving a humvee where i had to say afterwords...."we got fuckin lit up!!" The video would need some good voice acting to give the impression of working under pressure. A few different characters like in Gen Kill would help, the strong confident leader, the crazy guy, the scared reporter, and the take no shit emo driver. A post operation freak out by someone saying how if things went different we could have all gotten killed, etc. Then everyone in high spirits laughing at the thought.

I found that scene in the series really stuck with me. There's something about knowingly rolling into the shit, and still coming out on top that is just......bad ***.

[HughJass]

IMO if you do a little side by side thing with black hawk down, and do it very well, it will be quite impressive. People would be able to relate easily to the video, as it is directly affiliated with a very popular movie, thus making it very likable.

Then again something original would be good too.

What I had in mind was something that can show off PR while showing off your director skill as well.

It would be simuler to the pwnd life, like someone posted, but a lot more serious. It would show 1 situation (lets say in kashan desert, village is assaulted) where you show a different perspective of every branch of the operation.

For example, you start off with the infantry. You show them going in to attack the village, later going to another village..etc.
Time is rewinded. You go now to the eyes of a cobra pilot, or a abrams driver, or a 10 pilot, or LAV crewman, or whatnot. Basically, everything happens in one time frame, but is shown from different perspectives (the perspectives being different vehicals of the battle). Of course done as realistically as possible, with distorted radio chatter, and so on.

The movie would be shot all from 1st person. Think something in the lines of a COD4-esk style mission.

[HughJass]

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Another idea, you can do a vietnam style assault on barracuda

Good luck, and I am willing to help in filming.

[chimpyang]

Beach assault on barracuda, modify the map slightly to add a few boats, deploy a couple of HMG positions and use the attack heuy to simulate small explosions on the beach as they assault. Unbalance the teams, make sure they dont ALL shoot to kill but rather for effect. Then have the squads run up, assault the trench system, then go for the main base. Try to make it that the island is shot so that you cant see teh edges of it apart from the northern beachline.

Try to follow 1 or 2 people as "MAIN" characters through it. Maybe a medic and a SL of a different squad? Write them to meet surroptitiously during the trench assault, say the medic gets stranded with the squad.

Oh the possibilities.

[Aquiller]

If its machinima about Project Reality and not BF2 as a whole - we should gather here all the PR - related meme's, like infamous fastropes.

so, old skool dogs, keep 'em comming!

[Sir. AlphaWhiskey]

Great ideas guys! I've come up with the following:

Muttrah City:

A cobra is hovering in the mountains observing the insurgents building a firebase. Co-pilot asks for permission to fire. The request is denied and the order is to return to the carrier with the gathered observations. The commander decides to take a closer look by sending a squad to patrol the nearby area to observe if any fishy trades and movement is occurring. The squad patrols until they stumble upon a vodnik guarding the road leading to the firebase. The squad is being heavily suppressed.

*ACTION SEQUENCES*

The squad is able to destroy the enemy vehicle. The squad contacts the commander and tells him the news. The orders are to move forward and destroy the firebase. The squad moves up and once again is heavily suppressed.

Now, come up with a good ending that isn't like AMERICA F*** YEA!