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Faith, Hope and Charity has been nominated for six of ten awards at the Online Machinima Film Festival. The nominations are for Best Film, Best First Film, Best Drama, Best Original Sound Design, Best Custom Content and Outstanding Contribution Award.
http://www.mprem.com/omf/page.php?42
All members of that Web site will vote on the three best films in each of the ten categories. From those three, the site's judges will choose the winners. If you would like to get involved in the voting (ahem...to vote for FH&C
), you can register (for free):
http://www.mprem.com/omf/signup.php
Thanks go to Wiley for getting the ball rolling by applying to this festival!
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Faith, Hope and Charity has been nominated for six of ten awards at the Online Machinima Film Festival. The nominations are for Best Film, Best First Film, Best Drama, Best Original Sound Design, Best Custom Content and Outstanding Contribution Award.
http://www.mprem.com/omf/page.php?42
All members of that Web site will vote on the three best films in each of the ten categories. From those three, the site's judges will choose the winners. If you would like to get involved in the voting (ahem...to vote for FH&C
), you can register (for free):
http://www.mprem.com/omf/signup.php
Thanks go to Wiley for getting the ball rolling by applying to this festival!
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Gets my vote
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If I were you guys I'd be trying to distance myself from that stuff, I kid you not. I tried watching about 4 of the other so called "best movies" and gave up, I've never seen such lame piffle in my life and this is'nt just an IL-2 flight sim movie fan talking. I've seen a ton of stuff about from other games and sims from FSX to Arma to LOMAC with storylines and voice acting and stuff that runs to feature length 20 minutes and at least aspire to be proper movies, all of which is in a better league than what appears to pass for "machinima" at that site, festival or whatever it is which seems to connect the word with role playing fantasy titles. I'd even accept that if the movies made with the aforementioned were decent or at least thought provoking, they're not.... unless you like 80's style music videos.
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Wolf, OMFF is still a relatively new group trying to get in to the festival circuit. It still has a long way to go before getting recognition. But hey, if it gives us any first prizes then we'll take them 
I do agree there is some odd stuff in there. It's the nature of a people's choice competition that anything can get in if enough people vote, and the voting population is very low I bet, though I don't see any figures anywhere. The Short list should weed out some of the silly stuff, but that depends on the fan base. Hopefully the judges who pick the winner from each of the short lists will look objectively at each entry and not be guided by their personal taste.
I only had time to look briefly at the nominees in the Best Film category:
Beast - simple, but compelling. Not very complex but a good example of telling a simple story using machinima. It held my attention for the full duration and I give it a thumbs up for that! Disappointing ending though.
Bloodspell - Impressive feature. Not my cup of tea, but still very well made and a good story, if you can bear the old Neverwinter engine.
Bill and Bob 7 - couldn't be bothered watching past 1 min. Skipped forward a few times and nothing grabbed me. A poor relation to RvB.
HTK - oh dear, oh dear...yawn, skippity skip
Limited Escapism: To Cure A Hangover - weeell, showed some promise at the start, if you can be bothered with WoW movies. I can't usually. But I lost interest. It looked like it had the potential to be a contender.
Tales of the Past III - looked well produced and seemed to have a good story. I was quite impressed from just skipping through this one. I wasn't prepared to download a 2.4GB just to get a feel for the movie, the low quality stream was good enough. It's not my kind of movie either but I can see that it could be well recieved from the right audience.
Star Wars: Darkness Unleashed - really well made with some limitations from the game engine. Not a bad job at all. I didn't watch it all, but it did seem to have a story as well so points for that.
Cuckoo Clock - This was quite amazing. This also featured at the European Machinima Festival and really deserves to be in the short list. Mind you, I would say it's more CGI than Machinima.
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Yeah, sorry, I did'nt mean to be dismissive, my problem is the whole machinima term which seems to be forever linked with World of Warcraft, Halo and Half life 2, and where the following seems to be. Although game movie making obviously did'nt start with these games as they were'nt out at the time it certainly seems that it's what constitutes mainstream machinima now.
Admittedly other sims/games movies I mentioned are niche compared to the above three, I mean just look at machinima.com where WOW and Halo movie channel viewings are in the millions compared to practically zero for other channels, or youtube where single WOW and Halo movies have hits of over 4 million.
I guess it's because I think FHC and a host of other stuff which aims to be a proper feature film is not the same as this other stuff, even a shorter flight sim masterwork like "duellality" which you could actually project on an art gallery wall as an exhibit (seriously) is both visually and cerebrally superiour.
Yes, I was a bit harsh I skipped a few bits myself of the featured movies, cuckoo clock looks all CGI to me BTW so I'm not counting that one, but in general I find it dissapointing, particularly even in a 4/5 min movie, you can make something thought provoking rather than a glorified music video.
Obviously you have to know about these things to enter and it looks a bit alien to movie makers outside of the WOW/halo world and some will look at the other stuff and think it's not for them, but if all that WOW and fantasy game stuff is machinima, I'm a refusenik because I'm not going to use the term.
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Well said wolfbics.
I happen to agree with you