Re-inspired

I went to visit my cousins again over the summer. Because our previous videos were so good, naturally we wanted to film again. We filmed a total of 4 videos that summer, all of which we were extremely proud of. The quality of each one was a new step for us, with good acting, interesting stories, and good angles. My interest with video production was once again resurrected.

I returned home and was once again eager to film with my friends. I wanted to test out some stuff that I had learned from my summer videos. Because we couldn't think of a decent video idea, we decided to do a remake of a previous video.

A Game of Poker was the first video filmed with my friends that I thought was decent. You can see it on Youtube now. It was a major improvement over our last version of the video because it actually had some sort of story-ish thing, not simply a couple of guys playing poker.

During the next few months, we discussed putting our videos up on Youtube. We decided to wait on that decision a bit longer. At this point, HnB Productions was long gone.

In December of that year, we created UNDERFIRE. It was spawned from our love for first-person shooters. This video created Theorem 42. The quality of the final video astounded us. We were so proud of it. The quality to us was a huge improvement from previous videos. At this point, we were certain that we wanted to continue video making. But we needed a name.

On the way home from school one day, I was pondering to myself about math and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I decided to put the two thoughts together: "I wonder what Theorem 42 in geometry was..." And thus, the name was created. I know, it's nerdy, but it's how it happened.

A few months later, Popcorn was created. Then, I made this blog in honor of our group. From then on, our video production history was written in this blog.

We have been through some other complications with filming, but it hasn't changed our desire for video making. I'm glad that we have kept this alive, because I have never had a better experience doing anything else. Video making is my passion, and I'm glad to share it with my friends and family. We will continue video production.

By the way, a new video will be popping up soon...

UNDERFIRE Trivia

In case any of you out there want to know more about the UNDERFIRE series so far, here ya go.

I've been meaning to do this for a while, but I've been lazy. Realize that all the trivia only applies to the UNDERFIRE series, not any other videos from Theorem 42.

UNDERFIRE SERIES

• Ryan, Brandon, and Henry have been in every UNDERFIRE video to date.
• The sound effect for the Maverick/Revolver has been the same in every video, the Counter-Strike: Source Desert Eagle sound.
• Each video ends in the same spot.
• During filming, we have always been questioned by neighbors about our shenanigans.
• The inspiration of the series was Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2.

UNDERFIRE

• This is the only video so far that only stars 3 people.
• This is the only video with subtitles.
• This is the only video that ends with everyone alive.
• This is the only video that has a "happy ending"
• When Ryan and Brandon are facing off, Ryan hides behind some stairs. After Brandon is ambushed by Henry, the stairs that Ryan is hiding behind changes. This is because when we were filming, the person who lived there came out, and we didn't want to be confronted.
• The Wilhelm Scream can be heard.
• This is the only video that a Portal song appears, 5000 Degrees Kelvin.
• This is the first video that Adobe After Effects was used in a Theorem 42 video, for the title.
• The primary color for this video is red for the sunniness and the high energy.

UNDERFIRE Deathmatch

• This is the video in which William makes his Theorem 42 debut.
• The video was actually filmed in the rain, thought the rain was intermittent, so sometimes it shows up, sometimes it doesn't.
• Henry dies in a similar fashion in the beginning as the first video; Ryan headshots him when he peeks over a bush.
• When Henry kills Ryan with the shotgun and runs away, you can see William sitting on the stairs in the background.
• This is the only video that a Team Fortress 2 song appears, Faster than a Speeding Bullet.
• The title retains the quick word glimmer as in the first video, but more advanced.
• This is the first video to have limited lives. Though it is not directly stated, once Ryan kills Brandon for the last time, he does not respawn.
• Though not directly contributing to the video, in the first 5 minutes of filming, we were yelled at by a woman for being too loud outside.
• The primary color for this video is blue for the gloominess of the rain.

UNDERFIRE War

• This is the video in which Matt makes his Theorem 42 debut.
• This is the first video that songs from the Half-Life 2 episodes appear.
• This is the first Theorem 42 video to have a trailer.
• This is the first video to include blood effects.
• This is the first video to feature team deathmatch.
• This is the first video to feature full length dialogue.
• Ryan and Henry wear black shirts, while Matt and Julien wear white shirts.
• Brandon only makes a small cameo here, for the sake of being in the video, and also to reference to the previous videos.
• It appears that Ryan, Henry, and Brandon made a truce of some sort and formed a team.
• In this video, there is a better implication of limited lives, as an example of Brandon.
• The real reason why it was raining at the end was because we filmed the ending on a separate day, and it was raining that day.
• The symbol on Ryan's shirt is of Portal.
• The title also retains the word glimmer from the first video.
• The primary color for this video is yellow, for the high energy and the high speed action.
• Team Tigers was the result of a discussion on current issues. The name of that team came from the discussion of Tiger Woods.
• The only person whose name is not mentioned is Henry.
• During the machine gun scene, a neighbor came out and confronted us.
• When Ryan's respawn is shown, an old Half-Life song plays. This is the same song we used for Ryan's respawn in UNDERFIRE.
• The silencer on Julien's rifle toward the end of the video is on crooked. The silencer was made from the core of a toilet paper roll and black electrical tape.
  

Nothing's Good

I haven't posted in a while because I've had nothing to post about.

Life is life. School is school. The past week has just been a week. I know you don't want to read about my boring life, so I didn't post anything.

Tomorrow I'm filming a video with Roger, Ryan, and Jerry. Henry couldn't come for some reason. It should be quite funny. I'm hoping at least.

My focus this time is to achieve a professional-looking video. Good angles, good acting, good editing, nothing out of place, with fitting music. I don't want it to look so much of an amateurish video. I want solid everything, nothing lacking at all. It'll be an easy edit, so it shouldn't be long for it to come out.

I've decided to just stop editing UNDERFIRE 3. The footage is mediocre, and I don't really want to edit for weeks again. I'm not really up to it. Although don't expect it to be the last time you see us with NERF guns.

That's all for now. Bye.

Kilroy Was Here

The week is almost over. It's unfair how short spring break felt. A week simply isn't enough. I can't wait till summer now.

It's not that I hate school. Actually, I hate every single aspect of it except for seeing friends. I'd much rather do something else with my time. I like to have freedom, no homework, no projects, and all that good stuff. I can tolerate it for a while, but I'm at the point where enough is enough.

School starts back up Tuesday, and it's almost Friday already. Could I have done anything more than what I did do? Probably. But so far it's been very relaxing, very chill, I've seen a few friends, and it's been pretty good. I went swimming once so far, I started reading a book, I met up with friends, and I'm hoping to achieve more in the next few precious days of freedom. I still haven't started any homework.

Anyway, today we filmed the preliminary UNDERFIRE 3. I haven't looked at the footage yet, and I'm not going to probably till tomorrow or so. Again, I'm going to take this very slowly, editing bit by bit, redoing scenes maybe, just going to piece this film together. I want it to be a good film because I felt let down after what the last video ended up being like. I was honestly disappointed with how it ended up. I didn't feel like it was as good as it should have been. But people learn from their mistakes, and I hope I learned enough. I got some really nice angles too, so I'm eager to see those at least. Not so much of the editing.

I got a Day of Defeat achievement today. 8 kills from a single deployed machine gun in the same spot without moving, i.e. 8 kills from a mounted machine gun, and you can't move your position. I totally got everyone by surprise, and I even shot someone through the trees. But then someone came and shot me in the back. Cheap pricks. I got my achievement though, so I R happy. By the way, the title of this post is the name of the achievement.

I stopped playing Rainbow Six Vegas in hopes that I will finish it slower this way, but I know eventually it will get finished. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I bought fountain pens. I'm not sure why. I've always liked how fountain pens looked when they were used, so I decided to get some. I still haven't used the pens yet. I'm afraid to bring them to school because I consider them very nice. I had my awesome Boxy eraser lost because I forgot it in science. I was very sad, because I've had that eraser for 3 years, and it's such a good one too. So I shall not bring such valuables to school any more. School can go suck it.

Half-Life 2 still amazes me. I got to the Sandtraps level, the one right before Nova Prospekt. It's scary as hell. I hate jumping over sand with the risk of an antlion attack. I want my pheropods. I'm almost there though, just gotta get past one more thumper and a guardian, and they're mine!! ALL MINE!! I love harnessing the power of antlions. They are the absolute best weapon ever. Too bad you have to leave them eventually.

I friggin' love shotguns. The shotgun in HL2 is great in almost any situation. What kind of SPAS-12 can shoot 2 bullets at once?! NONE, EXCEPT IN THIS GAME. I'm getting wayy outta line now. I'm talking about shotguns. I'd better stop myself while I'm still close to ahead.

Night people. Enjoy your last few days of spring break.

Plans for the Week

It's spring break, and, for the most part, I'm gonna kick back and enjoy the sweet life of no school.

But I'm planning something on Thursday. Thursday, we're filming UNDERFIRE 3.

I know it's kinda weird making a sequel right after the previous video, but I'm gonna approach this one a bit differently. I'm not gonna edit this video very fast, I'm gonna see if we need to redo scenes for once, I'm gonna make sure everything looks the best before I get into the deep deep editing. I've got most of it thought out, but the longer we wait, the more I'm gonna forget, and the worse the video is going to be, I think. We'll redo the scenes we don't think are very good anyway, so it should be cool.

Otherwise I'm just doing nothing and stuff. Playing video games for hours and talking to friends for hours. Oh, and also wasting time. Spring break is the best.

Let's make it worth it.

Weekend and Plans

Well, I didn't post yesterday. I was sorta busy. I had Japanese class in the morning, then I took a nap, and then I played Day of Defeat for a few hours.

Then I went to my school's Winter Formal.

Well, it was a crapload of fun. I went with a bunch of my friends all dressed up an everything. We went to California Pizza Kitchen first, and then to the dance at this place called the Nixon Library. It was really just a very fancy, very fun dance. I won't go into specifics right now, but I'll say it was one of the best nights of my life. And yeah, I went with someone. Female.

Continuing:

Next weekend we will be filming UNDERFIRE 2. If you know us then you will know our video UNDERFIRE was one of our best looking videos so far. We're eager to make a new one, for a very long time, but finally we're gonna film the next one. It's gonna be more violent and more intense, but it will be a huge improvement over our last video. More guns, more people, more scenes, more minutes. It'll be great.

And it might rain next week too, so if we can film in rain, it'll look amazing.

That's about all I wanted to say. Till tomorrow.