Alright, so I got bored and decided to make a little video. I was going to try to make one of the entire brecourt level in Call of Duty, but it was jsut too hard to get the proper shots of everything. So instead, I put together a moderately jumbled mess of the beginning part...anyway, I won't show you guys the video, it's too large, but I would like to show you some still shots from it...and any of you who know what you're talking about in terms of composition, please critique them.




http://myweb.cableone.net/alberts/brecourt/brecourt6.jpg



http://myweb.cableone.net/alberts/brecourt/brecourt10.jpg
http://myweb.cableone.net/alberts/brecourt/brecourt11.jpg


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[This message has been edited by BobTheMasher (edited June 15, 2004).]

In terms of composistion, show the intro with american troops entering a unmarked area. Doing formations and covering one another. Which is shown here and is a nice touch even though I havent seen the game or played it. Then it cuts down to the german trenchs. Should show a shot of a german nazi waiting in ambush, then everyone ready to fire. Bring up the logo of your title, and then wham leave people wanting more.

Other then video composistion, Its pretty good. Other then the picture quality being alittle fuzzy, I would suggest if you made it fuzzy. Please dont! Want it clear and crisp. But the true nature of a video composistion is the music introducting the into. Thats the main critial part of making a video, especially composistion. If you go to vgmix 2 web site, remixers usually get told alot about composistion on the music being poor. Melody and every other thing is good, but the order in which the composistion is poor. Its like being a director doing producers work. Not to many people can pull off doing both.

Here is a few links on guides to video composition.

http://www.atomiclearning.com/freerules.shtml
http://www.nativityschool.com/classes/grade1/thirds.htm
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=video+composition&spell=1

Memories.. Good old photography class. What these links say to me is. You need something in the center to build up attention, or left to right of the center to show focus. Now all I can say is, the middle looks plain. It doesnt look cool now that I looked at it a secound time. Since when where there ever a muzzle flash from a M4 assault riffle? I mean yes there was but you could barely see it.

http://www.specialoperations.com/Weapons/Features/M4/Default.html *modern M-4A1 Carbine rifle.*
http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl08-e.htm *Classic WW2 M-1A1 Carbine rifle.*

Now I am sorry for the muzzle flash thing, but they arnt so big a feild when someone shoots a gun let alone a automatic rifle. The barrel does not explode. Like this. http://myweb.cableone.net/alberts/brecourt/brecourt6.jpg
It in fact functions like this.
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=www.zouaves.org/rotc/11.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zouaves.org/rotc/&h=400&w=600&sz=62&tbnid=oM7JrbEoIQ0J:&tbnh=88&tbnw=132&start=12&prev=/image s%3Fq%3DCarbine%2Bshoot%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
M-4A1 rifles would function like this when shooting.
http://www.planethalflife.com/features/lotw/images/blue-shift_thumbnail_5.jpg

Difference is the barrel. Notice the M-4A1 shoots from the side and not the open tip? Thats because the chamber lets out its flash at the sides rather then the front. This only happens with guns that have side openings at the tips of gun barrels. They let out a excesive amout of friction igniting the gas chamber creating the flash from the carbine family series. Usually there should be a smaller flash when a gun from this series is shot.

Only way you can know this is if you shot the gun yourself. All I can say is the flash size seems to be too big and dim it down. When a rifle like that gets shot off you can barely see a flash from it. So when it fires, you see maybe a line of what it may look like is a fast paced cloud of smoke. Alright, here is some pics the I leave you for your input. One last thing I could suggest is watch a hunting show, See how the muzzle flash goes by so quick. If this is unedited in photoshop, I mean the muzzle flash. Please for the love of god fix it right!

http://www.blackrivermilitaria.com/pics/other/bob~shooting.jpg
From looking at these, it has come to my attention the exit barrel of where the shell leaves is where you see the smoke. So if anything most guns dont produce a flash, sometimes the only thing you can very well see is the smoke and shell exit from the exiting chamber. Not all guns are gas chambered. And not all muzzle flashs are that big. Over-exhadurated if you ask me.

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I always imagined that CoD, MoH, etc. were over-compensating the muzzle flash for dramatic effect. I mean the vast majority of people haven't fired a weapon, but they expect a gun to make a nice muzzle flash. It's just something we've come to get used to from Hollywood, I suppose.

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