Scripts incorporating favorite scenes?

[Thorpeedo]

There are a lot of great favorite scenes in this area. Kudos to everyone for your hard work!

Has anyone assembled a script that plays through a select few of these scenes rapid fire that's sequenced as a killer home theatre demo?

It seems like a great scene assembly should contain scenes of a somewhat similar length and provide the emotional journey of a good fireworks display: start out strong, find a comfortable middle tempo and then a big crescendo at the end.

On the audio side, with the goal of showing off two channel audio capabilities, I assembled a mix album that feels diverse, in terms of genre, tempo and texture, but also hangs together well and gives 'demoees' an entertaining aural experience.

Anyone attempted this?

 

[josh]

Welcome to the forums! I've done a Demo script with some scenes in it and it works well. Since there's a script command that also displays the cover art, I usually display cover art for 3 seconds, then the scene(s) from that movie, then same for next movie. It's nice to see the cover art in between. If you add in some movie trivia files from the Kaleidescape demo disc that includes animated intros and movie trivia, it's a very nice demo that we have used at home, but would be great in a showroom.

--josh

 

[Thorpeedo]

Thanks Josh. Treating the cover art as a "cover page" to a scene is a great idea.

I have created a script that simulates a movie theatre beginning with trivia, an intro and then into a movie, but I think what I'm visualizing here is a lot like a composite movie trailer that has fast cuts between favorite scenes.

Have you set two "favorite scenes" back to back and know if there's a lag as it locates the second clip?

Because I haven't yet tried this (and am away from home so it's not possible to do a proof of concept at the moment), I'm wondering if the Kaleidescape can instantly go favorite scene to favorite scene without discernable "think time."

I'm imagining a series of fast cuts between action sequences, sprinkle in a few classic one liners that seem to reference what just took place from the same or another movie, do an explosion or car chase composite to work out the speakers and sub....something really fun, exciting and maybe funny, too. I'm guessing that every scene would need to be done in Dolby Digital 5.1 so that you wouldn't lose audio as your processor toggled back and forth from DTS to Dolby Digital.

Thinking about it, I'd probably use portions of many of these favorite scenes, "recut" a few and give them a prefix like HTD (for home theatre demo) so you'd know that that scene is not necessarily meant to be watched outside of the final "home theatre demo" script. The Kaleidescape obviously isn't an AVID system, so getting the timing and "editing" of the clips may be a bit laborious.

Just some thoughts...if it's not possible, I'll stop planning it during whitespace at work.

 

[Croptop]

You can definitely string together a series of favourite scenes in a script. However, there *will* be a slight gap (approximately half a second or so) between each scene.

 

[Thorpeedo]

Thanks Croptop. Bummer...I imagine that half-second is going to feel like a life time. I'll give it a shot, but sounds like it's probably a non-starter.