Told ya.

O.O

Everyone understands what's going on here, let's not confuse it. The back left is the back left, the back right is the back right.

He is back right. He didn't have a green shirt.

I flipped his image up there because blue shirts always go in the back left, and I didn't want folks getting confused seeing a blue shirt in the back right and then - *ahem* - getting unnecessarily confused about what I mean by back right or left. And then everyone is filming on the wrong side, and cats and dogs look for apartments together, and someone dies, and it's all my fault.

I'm going to change it to green in post, and he'll be in the back right, and all is well with the world.

And we've got our first footage in! Thanks Vidina!

I'mma show you some of this stuff, just remember that he's kind of cheating, because he lives in fucking Norway and had a real camera lying about. I expect most folks won't have access to either of those things (real camera, Norway), so whatever you're already planning is still the right way to go with it.

I'm just a little bit freaking excited right now. This thing is gonna work.

Here's what a back-left passenger shot looks like.

Here's what he got for his "out of the car" bit. Sigh. Fucking Norway.

And here's his out-the-windshield shot.

Vidina did awesome here, and props for the fast turnaround. I'm gonna use these images as an example, though, so other folks can benefit from it. The passenger angle is great. The out the windshield thing is exactly what I'm lookin' for. As for the out-of-the-car shot, what he got here will totally work for me, but if you want to go a different angle with yours, go for it. This one is a flat angle from inside the car, you could do anything. (As long as you don't see the car, natch.)

And no, I probably won't be posting more stills from people's footage. Probably.

This is going to work. 

The shades of the shirt color aren't too important - between burgundy and bright red and maroon - it's just going to be a subtle hint for the audience that we're looking at this seat now. That's all. So, sorta red, sorta blue, sorta green. We're not trying to convince the audience that you're the same person as another that-color person, just subliminally trying to keep their heads from exploding with all the people changery.

There's nothing stopping everyone from putting their PMs together and trying to suss out the whole script, but I like the fun of nobody knowing quite what they're actually doing. If anyone has questions about delivery, they're super free to ask - it only makes the thing better - but I'd prefer to keep the overall proceedings sort of secret-ish.

All of the props written into the movie are also written in to everyone's PMs, so if folks need to know something really specific prop-wise, they do. Same with filming details - several of you have to make a stop at McDonalds for one scene, for instance, and everyone who does knows what's up.

The cast list is the folks in the thread who said they wanted in. 27 folks, not including myself. So. That's them.

Generally, every line is gonna need to be very close to what it is. This isn't because I'm a control freak, it's because this entire thing is responses to other statements, and you might inadvertently make a long exchange stop making sense.

If there's anything in particular anybody wants to know if they can tweak, ask me in PM. If you have something funnier, or are uncomfortable with a line, I'll try to work with you on it and get something that suits the script as well as you... but at the end of the day, I can only tweak so much on any given line. Some more than others. Feel free to ask.

Consistency with props would be important, but yeah, props are cool.

I do not oppose this notion.

Ha. Wow. Alright, I'll have a look at the trailer.

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Like I said, like I've always said, I don't get oranges.

I don't trust them.

Because the story of Super Mario or Pac-Man isn't why you play the game. You're not exactly tied up in the Marioland politics of power between Bowser and Mario and how the Princess got involved and all that. You're just trying to not to die, for fun.

I guess what I'm feeling is, sure, you could add enough story to sort of explain the politics of power in Marioland and why Mario gives a shit and how the fireballs work, but... that's not why you play the game. It's just fun to do, like a sport.

*shrug*

I'm not anti-plotline or anything, it just seems like if a game (obviously this does not apply to Portal) has to add in scenes from another medium entirely just to be able to say it's a story, that doesn't seem... fair, I guess. Fair to say "this game has a great story." What would be fair is to say "the stuff you don't play in this game has a great story." Am I making sense at all?

Maybe I need to broaden my definition of "story," to include what Portal does. I guess "story" applies to that.  Just seems weird, to me.