Machienzo's NeoDomain

So this video is what I did over the weekend. I'm really proud of it, and wanted to bring it to as large an audience as possible. It is the product of about 12 hours of hard labour, and previous 'draft' which received some feedback. For more information, please read the Project Info section.

The choice of the song "Your Eyes Open" was partly due to the song being just so good that I wanted to make a 'tribute' video with it on impulse. However, certain symbolism can be (possibly) identified within the lyrics that I thought would also relate to the game, which also influenced my decision to use it. As can be seen below in the lyrics excerpt (See Lyrics), phrases such as a 'lonely road' obviously can indicate the emptiness of once filled streets. Other parts such as "Morning Comes and you don't want to know me..." might be considered from the perspective of the enemies of the Lone Wanderer, all of them meeting a gruelling fate due to the 'cunningness' of the Vault Dweller. But mostly, as is indicated in the title, the main message is to open your eyes to the Capital Wasteland, to watch and realise what the world is like in the universe. In a sense for those to 'wake up' to the world around them. Meh, maybe I'm making all this stuff up. The point is to watch the video and give feedback. ;)

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"War. War never changes. Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.

In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.

In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them - all except those in Vault 101. For on the fateful day, when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die. Because, in Vault 101: no one ever enters and no one ever leaves."

Music is Keane's "Your Eyes Open". This is the final version of project and will not be subject to future revision. I am very happy to see how this turned out, and a lot of effort was made into ensuring that each scene managed to hold an adequate frame-rate. Multiple versions of each scene were shot, and archived into a mass collection for future use.

Project Info
- Over 100 clips where recorded.
- Everything you see was done from scratch. Each scene is entirely my own work.
- Scenes were shot using Fraps, and the in-game console.
- Around 90%+ of all clips filmed were used within this.
- Over 7 hours went into filming locations.
- Over 5 hours went into processing the video.
- The production process only started one day prior to filming, with the impulse decision to create a video tribute whilst listening to this song.
- Filming happened over the timespan of two days.
- Another one of Keane's songs, "Somewhere only we know", was originally considered to be this videos main song.
- No mods were used to enhance this project.
- Project was made using only Windows Movie Maker for Windows XP

Disclaimer: This song is copyright to the band Keane, and I do not own or claim to own that song. All credits go to them. For more info, visit their website!

http://www.keanemusic.com/

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Well it's a lonely road that you have chosen
Morning comes and you don't want to know me anymore
And it's a long time since your heart was frozen
Morning comes and you don't want to know me anymore
For a moment your eyes open and you know
All the things I ever wanted you to know
I don't know you, and I don't want to
Till the moment your eyes open and you know

That it's a lonely place that you have run to
Morning comes and you don't want to know me anymore
And it's a lonely end that you will come to
Morning comes and you don't want to know me anymore

For a moment your eyes open and you know
All the things I ever wanted you to know
I don't know you, and I don't want to
Till the moment your eyes open and you know

For a moment your eyes open and you know
All the things I ever wanted you to know
I don't know you, and I don't want to
Till the moment your eyes open and you know