Saturday, May 19, 2012

Mary Asher Phone Call



It's finally up! After four long months of waiting, the next episode of TribeTwelve has been posted! And let me tell you, it was probably the hardest editing job I've had since the Nature Trail Visit. I put so much time and effort into it, if you guys knew the myriad of editing tricks and the many crazy hurdles I had to overcome to get the video looking as fantastically realistic as it does, you’d respect the video making process even more than you probably already do. There are a few hidden things in the video, and I wont say what they are because I think people may have found them all already, damn you guys are fast, but I took quite a while editing them in.

The gun scene was probably one of the hardest thing I've ever edited. And yes, that is a real 9mm pistol that I used, unloaded mind you. In a nutshell, it took me four days nonstop to get the whole scene right, from the point at which I see our slender buddy at the end of the hallway to the point that I run out the door to my car. Special thanks to Ryan Beaule of the slender series WeepingThorns for helping me out with improving the tentacles for this episode. Also, whoever out there who claims that you can see a face on Slender Man in my newest TribeTwelve video is wrong. The most you can see is a completely blank head, save for two empty eye holes, just as I intended. Pause the video and you'll see.

The main reason this video took as long as it did to make was mainly college. I purposely said that I was going to be on hiatus for a while, and I have since changed my major to Motion Pictures with a Biology minor. That plus end of the semester work and finals really bogged me down, so I didn't really start the intense editing work until after. Truth be told, the majority of the editing was done in the past week. However, it was nonstop editing. Barely any sleep or food breaks, I just wanted to get this damn thing out. Kind of like a mother in labor trying with her all to push that damn baby out.

Well, the baby came out and it looks better than I thought it would. I know some people will complain about the scripting, but let them. One, Noah speaks the way he does because he's been trying to get this woman on the phone for nearly two years, and he finally has the chance in this video, so he's bound to be nervous and say dumb stuff; two, that's the way Noah talks - with a sort of cheesy vibe to it. To be honest, that's kinda an inherent part of his character's dialogue. Mary's dialogue was written the way it was because it's mainly plot driven, but also because she's trying to get information out of Noah about this Mr. Scars fellow. Honestly, it's kinda hard to make the dialogue sound realistic when you're trying your damnedest to sound like you aren't acting it out. I think Mary's voice actor and I did a very good job executing the lines and whoever disagrees should be reminded that suspension of disbelief is an essential key to enjoying series like this.

Mary Asher's voice actor is the lovely 28 year old Marissa Botelho of the slender series The Tulpa Effect. She's a friend of mine and I'm very glad she was able to voice Mary, because the way she voiced her was nearly exactly how I envisioned it.

Thanks for waiting patiently guys, I hope that this lived up to the hype enough!

8 comments:

  1. It lived up to the hype and then some! Absolutely amazing piece of work and a great addition to the story.

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  2. I really don't see why everyone has a problem with Noah, that's how I'd act in his situation, cursing and saying dumb things.

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    1. Well, everyone nowadays is under the impression that they are professional actors and acting teachers. :/

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  4. Nah, dude, you totally blew my mind with that vid. Although it's true what you said, that we don't know completely what all went into this, I at least could tell there was great effort put into this one. The way you ended it was completely realistic for its setting, if that were me, I would have run after shooting at something like that and it came at me baring tentacles from every which way.

    People really don't know what you and guys like the Marble Hornets crew and Everyman HYBRID crew are doing for our entertainment.

    Also, good luck with your classes.

    *Realized I typed your twice and thus deleted it. Meh, we all make mistakes*

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  5. Dear Fellow Sir Nimbus Followers,


    Last weekend, I submitted a short review on the latest entry to Unfiction which you can read here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29717&start=6165. Less then nine hours, the following response you have just read was made on Adam Rosner’s blog.


    My review, as readers will note, was overall positive, praising much of the entry and I gave what I believe to be constructive criticism on elements which I felt did not work so well. However, in his response, Adam Rosner seeems to have deliberately misrepresented the tone of my post and it’s content. Before submitting this, I checked thoroughly through the forums, but can come to no other conclusion that the review in question he is referring to is my own.


    In response to my comment that some of the dialogue felt like exposition, Rosner reiterates my statement as this:

    I knew some people would complain about the dialogue, but let them…


    My original statement ran like this:



    First off, great entry...but....I do have some criticisms of it. But first, Tribe Twelve is back and for that we rejoice


    For me, the conversation felt and sometimes too much like exposition rather than a natural conversation. That’s not to say what we learnt wasn’t interesting or haunting or affecting (such as poor Mary’s knowledge that even the remains of her son weren’t safe in death from The Collective), but that it didn’t quite ring right as a conversation sometimes.


    Adam Rosner reiterates this as: I knew some people would complain about the dialogue, but let them’ which is far from the tone of my original statement and marks my opinion as that of a troll or flammer. Given that I was the only one to complain about the dialogue on the forums between the time my entry was published and this response, I can only come to the conclusion that he was referring to my review.


    He also seems to wish to imply that I complained about the performances themselves, which never occurs at any point in my review:

    ….I think Mary's voice actor and I did a very good job executing the lines and whoever disagrees should be reminded that suspension of disbelief is an essential key to enjoying series like this.

    Mary Asher's voice actor is the lovely 28 year old Marissa Botelho of the slender series The Tulpa Effect. She's a friend of mine and I'm very glad she was able to voice Mary, because the way she voiced her was nearly exactly how I envisioned it.



    While ‘affecting’ might be too concise a term to describe to describe both performances both of which I felt were great, it does inform my readers that I was emotionally engaged in what was happening which could only happen from a good performance. My issue was with the dialogue, not how it was performed. At no stage, did I say the dialogue was ‘bad’, just that it felt sometimes too much like exposition. I believe this is a constructive comment. Rosner also seems to wish to imply that I criticised Marissa’s performance heavily, which never occurs at all in my review.


    Also, what exactly makes Tribe Twelve exempt from criticism on its dialogue? Tribe Twelve is a naturalistic horror series in the vein of The Blair Witch Project and Marble Hornets and therefore, if the viewer does feel as if the dialogue is unrealistic, then it has merit for the creator.


    At no point, does Adam acknowledge the positive comments I left in my review, concerning Noah’s search for Slendy or how I felt when Noah crumbled after his attack on Slenderman) Such comments are hardly the stuff of a flame or troll post.

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  6. I have been following Tribe Twelve for nine months and have up until this point, enjoyed every minute of it and look forward to the next entry as much as the next fan and will be buying the DVD at the end of the series, but I can only interpret my character being misrepresented simply because I chose to criticise parts of the entry in a constructive fashion. I have been on Unfiction for nearly nine months and never in my time have I believed I have acted in a way which would justify such as response as presented here, although I urge readers of this comment to check my post history to prove me wrong if need be.


    I have placed this comment here because I believe this is the only recourse for what I believe is an untrue and slanderous account of my character.


    In short, Adam, I am disappointed.

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  7. On a side note, I am quite happy for Noah to speak the way he does, but some of Mary's dialogue did feel like exposition to me. (However, once again, I must stress that Marrissa's performance was excellent)

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