Comments on: HomeStation Presents: Periselene, A LOOT Space Apartment Film

By: Godzprototype

Godzprototype — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:20:46 +0000

That was a great work of machinima Norse! Great story too. It has the wheels turning for me.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:52:34 +0000

That's very good. I don't know what machinima is well I did look it up so maybe I have an idea but the short movie is fun and emotional. In it's own why, I guess I liked it as much as Metropolis and Gone With The Wind (really).

By: backarch

backarch — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:45:31 +0000

omg hun, that was wonderful! WOW….ok, you have me on the end of the bed crying. pffft. never sell your directing abilities short, love. that was beyond words. just magical, haunting and beautiful in its nature. and yes, you two DO look gorgeous together. WOO HOO!! ‘gets out kleenex box and blows nose again’

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:41:21 +0000

It’s really difficult to pull a deep emotional reaction out of someone with a Home machinima; in conventional filmmaking, you at least have the emotional reactions of the actors to work with. The greatest challenge of filmmaking in virtual reality, I think, is that by its very nature there’s a certain soulless quality to it.

(This, by the way, is why my avatar always wears sunglasses. The eyes are the window to the soul, and I’ve just never been able to quite get the eyes right on my avatar.)

I completely agree with you that this is probably why Home machinima doesn’t have a lot of dramatic storytelling. And this is why we had to try. There were certain technical tricks used to boost the emotional response — step-printing a couple of shots, liberal use of subtitles, blurring dissolves instead of hard cuts, shots framed in specific ways, etc. — but it’s not easy to pull off.

A real-world friend of mine who’s seen it responded, “Oh, you’re doing Crusade’s Path of Sorrows.” Which kinda brought me up short, because I hadn’t even realized that I was borrowing techniques from my favorite Crusade episode. But, hey, go with what works.

Where this film hits me personally is the warp-tunnel sequence. Not too many Home films break the fourth wall by showing real-world photographs, and it just adds something emotionally which is very intense. It gives Periselene a very different feel than any other Home machinima I’ve ever seen.

By: CheekyGuy

CheekyGuy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:35:14 +0000

That video simply blew me away.. the soundtrack (Coldplay) fits like a glove, it’s direction & Storyline.. It’s definitely going to make me work harder on my video..

Well done, and yes (blush) you guys look great together..

The Cheekster likes!

By: Gideon

Gideon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:51:56 +0000

Well done norse. I also took a step in the direction of hearbreak storytelling years ago when I first delved into machinma. It was called “A Home Story” and was told through a series of photographs. It is perhaps still to this day my favorite of the machinimas I’ve done.

Personally… I think Home lacks the emote set to tell compelling stories, that’s why most of the machinima that has been on the silly or humorous side.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:38:48 +0000

Great job, loved the sad sweet story. There are a few tricks you still have to learn about this new venture you are undertaking but BRAVO on your first try!

By: Olivia_Allin

Olivia_Allin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:19:36 +0000

Epic! Please don’t short sell my praise or write it of as biased. I know and love you both. That said, I loved the video as well. I want to say so much about it but instead I shall only say “epic” and hope that word will some how express all I want to say!

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:53:03 +0000

Thanks! Solaris (both the novel and the films) was very much on my mind during the creation of this film. Like The Fountain or Moon, certain stories just leave an indelible impact, and you find yourself riffing on certain themes or visuals when putting together your own work.

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:44:01 +0000

Wow, well done! very touching! it’s great to see HOME being used for moving stories like this. I thought of Solaris when watching it. Great!!

By: Narde

Narde — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:45:04 +0000

Nice Vid! I’m currently getting a crew together to do my own machinima. It’s actually a script that I’ve been sitting on for quite sometime now. I asked the Director if he wanted to take a look at it and he laughed at me haha. He’s currently sitting on a stack of scripts from his own contacts.

By: tbaby

tbaby — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:42:38 +0000

Ahhhh I see. Very well done indeed, especially for your 1st machinima. Yall are awesome! I look forward to seeing more videos from you, but you have already set the bar quite high for yourself now. If you ever need an extra actress let me know. Thank you again for sharing this as I was definitely moved by this very heart-warming piece. *snif*

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:31:24 +0000

The film’s not a perfect one-to-one correlation for real life; in the story, this man lost his wife (with only the vaguest intimation as to how, as well as the context behind it), and transferred his essence into a machine body in order to cheat death and spend many lifetimes perfecting a method of finding her again. It’s sort of a tip of the hat to some classic Matsumoto Leiji stories, like Galaxy Express 999.

Thanks for the kind words! We’re really hoping people are moved by this piece.

By: tbaby

tbaby — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:25:10 +0000

Awwwww This is so touching. I figured I knew what it was going to be about and then I saw you mentioning your dead wife and then I wasn’t sure, but now I think you were being figurative. This is touching and it is a well done machinma movie. The music is so perfect and really sets the mood and yes, it brought a few tears to my eyes. I’m a sucker for love stories and love seeing true love and that’s what this video shows me. Well done again and I’m so happy for you both!