Star Trek: Frontier

Discussion in 'Fan Productions' started by Kagan, Jan 8, 2008.

  1. Kagan

    Kagan Commodore Commodore

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  2. johnhazard

    johnhazard Commander Red Shirt

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    I came across that myself recently. I was surprised how good it was, for machinima. I've always thought that someone could make a good Trek fanfilm with anything, so long as they had a good story. That had a lot of the usual clunkiness of machinima- bad sound, bad editing, awful space shots- but it's the most watchable Trek machinima I've ever seen, just because there was some real personality in there. I'd like to see more.
     
  3. rsswope

    rsswope Cadet Newbie

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    Hello,

    I'm the person who made the Machinima Star Trek:Frontier videos featured on YouTube. Thank you for the positive comments. I sort of gave up on the series because they took so much of my time to make and they never turned up the way I wanted. I am a writer and I had to cut the script down to a bare minimum just to be able to produce the features within a workable timeline. I discarded the majority of the Captains back story which related his relationship with the Klingon Empire just because it would have so long to produce. I did all the work myself on our home computer (using The Movies! game along with Moding and old fashion stop motion animation) and had my wife, son and a friend help out with the voices and it was very frustrating when after a lot of work he video or sound distorted at the last minute. I may pick it up again to finish the episode "A Matter of Time" which is intended to be a whimsical episode along the lines of "A Piece of the Action" and "The Trouble with Tribbles". Right now I'm working on a novel and trying to market some of my other books and short stories so it would be a while. Thanks again for all the positive feedback.
     
  4. Kagan

    Kagan Commodore Commodore

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    rsswope, I was impressed. I could tell that you had to cut part of the story. HOWEVER, I was impressed with: 1) the spirit of TOS, 2) placing a character in a dilemma (very Trek-like), and 3) having known enemies (Federation-Klingons) work toward a common goal.

    When you make enough posts to exchange PMs, I'd like to discuss steps in the publishing process of writing.
     
  5. Mallory

    Mallory Moderator In Memoriam

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    Welcome to the board rsswope! I hope you enjoy your time here with us. :)