Just noticed the McCain adds at left. :-P

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for the indulgence... I'm just jealous.

I, as well, loved the opening shot. The political satire was funny yet delivered in a good natured way.

I have to ask. Are you phophetic? Obama really did break yesterday. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/the-sound-of-silence-for-o...

[...] Stallkamp, our friend who works at EA, made an intriguing comment on my Broken Obama video that he was working on something similar in nature. With all the Expo hub-bub, I missed it [...]

That was just so funny Phil. You used SL and MS? The integration was seamless. I really liked the ending too. ;)

Indulgent bastard, a :31 second opening shot!

Great work Phil, nice volley. Is this on youtube? I've got something in the works as well... in the same genre...

Damn, that was good! You just never cease to amaze Phil. Your lip sync always stokes me.

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

@krad - iClone was used for the female newscaster in those two brief shots of the larger tv console. Second Life was used for "matte" backdrops for the outdoor shots (and through the window behind Bush). Also I made the teleprompter in Second Life and chroma'd it in. The moving shot of the teleprompter in the opening credits didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped; you can see some of the seams as I attempted to manually "match move" it in there. I did so by translating the coordinates / timing of the Moviestorm camera into the Alt-Zoom camera in Second Life, positioning the prompter accordingly. But there were subtle differences in the curve interpolation between the two, so I had to do a lot of work in Vegas keyframing to get it as close as I could. In the end, the reason I sped up the camera for that opening shot was to partially mask this flaw, but it ended up being a good decision anyway because the opening was running too long as it was originally.

Phil,
Wonderful film. Great use of the programs. This just shows how Machinima is developing. Bravo!!

Phil, haha - that was funny. Love the reaction of the two guys in the booth. Nicely put together. You should do a SNL-like machinima thing with the material you come up with. BTW did you know this was featured over at m.com?

http://rnc08report.org/archive/339.shtml

We NEED Obama as our president if we don't want this shit to continue. This happened less than an hour from where I live.

@krad - Oh, and I almost forgot. The TV console thingy, that was something I built in Second Life. It wouldn't have been hard to create that one as a static prop and bring it straight into Moviestorm, but building / photographing it in SL was just so much easier / faster.

That was very slick and pretty damn funny. By the way, I once dated a chic with "subtle curve interpoltaion."

Great work, Phil. I just love your camera work and editing. Your skill as a story teller just gets better and better. Not a single shot was too much or too little. And the skillful audio editing really makes the film shine. It's the kind of character centered comedy that you are so good at. Todd's right about the indulgent opening though. Orson Welles would have been proud.

I have several friends (who are not anarchists) who were unlawfully maced, detained, etc., for nonviolent acts of protest and labeled as terrorists. Not to mention the armed preemptive raids on houses of people who were doing nothing wrong. The police were working in tandem with the F.B.I. - a branch of the federal government, obviously. A president with a sound mind and respect for the 1st amendment could give an executive order the F.B.I. and the police to not conduct preemptive raids in a situation like this. Maybe this wouldn't work. . . I'm neither a lawyer nor am I a politician.

I apologize for starting this up here. This is your website, your film, and this has no place here. At the time I thought it was relevant.

Thanks, Todd!

It is indeed on the Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qQu8ccNiBU

Looking forward to what you're working on!

Nice job, Phil.

Bush is still a stuttering dumbass even WITH a teleprompter, though.

"China says U.S. in default, will accept California as payment." :-D

Btw, where did you use iClone and Second Life in this movie?

@krad - It's a shame that, with this having happened so close to where you live, you apparently haven't done research into the circumstances which led to this footage, circumstances which were conveniently left out of this documentary trailer. This confrontation was planned and orchestrated, and not by the overreactive police.

Not that I'm entirely sure what you think Obama or any other president would or could or even should do about either anarchists or overzealous cops.

Nor do I understand the compulsion to start this up in the thread of my comedy film.

Thats what SHE said!

I watched it on WikiBlast . n e t for free and I LOVED it :D