Clan Videos
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Fucking A
Finally some real promotional stuff, not the usual 3 hour videos
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It’s a good promo video. But it takes 34 seconds before you get to the content. A lot of people will click away in that time if they’re not mashing the L key.
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It’s a good promo video. But it takes 34 seconds before you get to the content. A lot of people will click away in that time if they’re not mashing the L key.
Fair comment, we need a new shorter intro, preferably with the new clan logo/emblem. Unfortunately i dont have access to after effects atm
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I’ll see if there were any good moments from last night. If I do find anything I’ll have to do a little editing as game audio, my mic and TFAR are all recorded to different tracks.
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Yeh sure. Will have to do it mid week though if that’s ok?
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yeah itll take a while for me to pick out good moments from it all so no rush
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Chroma i didnt record last night due to an ongoing teamspeak issue im currently suffering. I do have a few older ops available though but i dont think dropbox will house the size of files i end up with. We'd need a clan google cloud storage account or something with a bit more capacity than the free stuff. I do have 100gb of cloud storage for 12 months (you can get this free with any google device like one of their phones or any chromebook atm)
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Decided to have a go at after effects and played around with the new logo ended up with these
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Existing videos:
- Carrier landing (at the end).
- A2A guns kill (at the start).
- AAC training video of low altitude bombing.
- Little Bird rocket strike on a boat.
- Surviving a helicopter crash into the sea and swimming out of the sinking wreckage.
- Old A-10 CAS footage, laser guided bomb and guns.
- Really old footage of Mi-8s doing a rocket strike.
- More old footage of an Mi-24 rocket strike, very close air support.
- Old Raven and Zeus footage.
- Old raven footage.
- My first ever landing in a mission using the AFM.
Happy to help you film some new stuff. Just let me know.
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Operations Playlist:
Bloopers Playlist:
Let me know if you find anything useful
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Thanky you all! Got what i need i think now
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Did a thing
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Pretty good. Very entertaining. I like that you kept a lot of the chatter. A lot of this footage I've never seen before. Wondering where all this came from. I'd say we got the montages down pretty well.
The problem I guess I have with montages in general is that it's not what I want to see. Sure, we want to get people's attention with entertaining footage. But every montage leaves a bit of a stale after taste because it's not representative of what our gameplay is actually like. Montages aren't telling the story like the actual mission does.
I've known many Arma players over the years and I'd go so far as to say that this isn't actually what we, us Arma players, want to see. Otherwise we'd play Battlefield, or CoD, or whatever will quickly give us that fix of action.
The average Arma player isn't all about the action. We're interested in the talking, the walking, the strategy and tactics. The banter, the meta, the fuck ups, the downtime that makes the action ever more tasty when it actually happens. That's what attracts a potential recruit to one specific group over the other.
All of this is missing in the montages.
Many of you have argued against the full on, uncut 2,5h videos and I can see why. I want to see them because I was there, and I want to re-live it all. The average viewer isn't interested.
What I would like to argue for though is some middle ground.
Certainly, we want to grab people's attention with exciting footage and action. But we need to keep in mind that we're targeting a specific audience: The sim guys, the wargamers. Patient core gamers.
The one GOL member to hit that nerve was Oksman when he was still putting stuff on youtube. His footage averaged around 15 min and in those 15min covered the highlights of one mission. To me, this managed to capture much better what it was actually like to play that mission. The action is there, the highlights are there, but it also had that crucial context, allowing a video to tell a story instead of blurting out 50 random explosions.
This remains the best example of this practice in my opinion. Over the years it racked up almost 5000 views, over 40 likes and even a few comments. When OksmanTV was active, every recruit you'd talk to would tell you he'd found the group through that channel.
Nothing we do atm in terms of montages will ever come close to that. And that's because the montage only approach has got this whole thing figured all wrong. At least in my opinion. You've got to tell the story and present an accurate picture of what gameplay in the GOL is like.
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Who’s that handsome magnificent bastard storming up the beach like an AR boss?
I think there’s a need for both styles. Horses for courses. I do love getting in to whole replays but also we need to show our doctrinal and social side. -
Whole replays are all well and good but you need footage from multiple sources to showcase the mission. A lot of my recording attempts fell foul of that and ended up stupidly short simply because watching an A-10 circle for 180 minutes isn't exactly exciting. Some sort of "media collaboration" would work better but then you need to work out software compatibility etc. so it's a giant can of worms.
Any publicity at present is good publicity until something better that can showcase entire ops is worked out