darth vader choking spree! (~15MB)

video productions final for me and a friend (that's why there's two sets of color bars) based on a documentary/spoof of darth vader.

Poor Vader can't have a healthy breakfast. ;.;

Hahahaha.. vader on a trampoline!

Sabers need work.
Also costume could be better.

Also, Vader has Dooku's saber.

I've probably wasted a whole hour of my life watching all the stupid crap you and your friends manage with a camera. Why I continue to click you links is beyond me.

I didn't laugh once, and I'm sorry for that.

I really start to think your second name is sarcastic...uber sarcastic...i mean, can't you see optimistic to a few of guys, that have fun?

A smilie probably would have shown I was joking.

But yeah, my title is sarcastic.

Better actors! Choking looked so badddd

why did I watch that?

lol was somewhat funny, make another one with some better fighting in it lol

we werent going for hollywood. the only 'costume' was vader. and yes i know it was dooku's... its the only red one i had that lights up. i wasnt gonna go waste 20 bucks on vader's one just to do this stupid final the teacher didnt give us enough time to do.

haha damnit mb. it's a spoof. it's supposed to look bad/stupid/silly. that girl at DQ wasnt an actor, we just had her do it quick. she knew about what she was doing about 30 seconds before we filmed it. actually none of us are actors, but yeah.

But we saw your skin between the gloves and the shirt.

And you could enhance the sabers, it's easy to do.

yeah... i couldnt find a turtleneck with long enough sleeves. christ im not going for an emmy. you're supposed to look at the ideas of a movie, not point out the fact that, yes, there's actually a person under the costume. wow.

also, saber quality looks a lot better on the avi. wmv tends to make everything not look as good. lens flares look better too. haha i loved overdoing those.. adds to the spoofness.

The idea is not so bad... Is it supposed to be funny?

And I meant Photoshop the sabers.

its not supposed to be knee-slapping rolling on the floor funny... you could giggle at it at the most. we came up with most of the ideas on the spot as we only have this weekend to do this and two other video projects, so its not like we wrote a script and had elaborate, really funny ideas.

and i only have adobe premiere... im told you need after effects to do the light saber effects, since i cant find crap on how to do them in premiere. ive looked a lot, because this isnt the first movie with lightsabers ive tried to make. i think the only one i did find needed you do put colored tape on the saber itself and stuff. i dunno how well that would have worked if it was dark out like it was, also. and isnt it like... just rotoscoping? if i had enough time to go through and to that to every frame, i would. i have graduation parties to go to as well. and like i said the other two movies.

Well my dad is in thi whole video-world...what he said to me was:
when you don't have enough money to buy after effects, boris or just aren't feeling to buy them. Then do some blue tapes on the sabers (it needs to look plain blue). It functions as a bluescreen, when youve cutted out the blue ****, you can add a red/green block behind it...

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I know that this text above could be hard to read, im dutch, my father in dutch, and we're certainly not the best in English.

Silly Cazor, Maxis has all the answers!

After Effects would be the primo steamo to do the sabers, but if you exported you file as a filmstrip (File>Export>Movie - Flmstrip file from the dropdown) you'll have the whole sequence, frame by frame, to draw in the sabers in Photoshop.

Now, (since I haven't seen the movie), you could just pick specific chunks to rotoscope where there are sabers, but if there is a long fight, it would be extreme to scope a saber for like, 10 minutes.

UPDATE: Now, having seen the movie, I think it should be noted that you need to use a tripod. And, while the lens flares showed dedication, the saber sequence was, in fact, unecessary. Also, why didn't you add music?

It needed music in the background.. like the imperial march and that would've made the video.. especially during the saber fight.

I'd laugh so hard if I saw some person dressed up as Vader walking around in my local Dairy Queen, video store or getting gas.

Hey, I liked it. The only problem was that the chokees could've done a better job on the whole... dieing... bit.

the reason we didnt add music was because of copywrite issues. i dunno if we could contact john williams and get a response back by tuesday(when it's due) and if we dont have permission the teacher fails people instantly. we're already cutting it kinda close with some of the other things in this movie.

i would have added music if it werent for school.

Make us a video showing us your sweet moves on the trampoline!

It would've been funnier if Vader had gone to the family cartoon section to pick out some movies. Like "All Dogs Go to Heaven" or something...

A funny concept, which I admit, did get a few chuckles out of me. But it's too quiet! It needs more sound effects- like Vader breathing, and the "choke" noise!

i looked for the sound of the choke online but amazingly i could only find one and it was very low quality. even a high quality one has talking and vader breathing inbetween it, though... we just wanted the choke noise.

but yeah the other joke was that he only did the breathing cause he was breathing heavily during the 'cario workout'

that would have been too "oh look he's really a soft guy, you'd never expect that", demon. we actually talked about it right before filming about which one he should take and we figured 2001, cause its supposed to be like one of the main copetitors to star wars for the best science fiction movie ever. and he looked at garfield and put it back right away cause... it's garfield the movie.