'Mad Nation' Post-Apocalyptic TV show Megathread

...and when will John Carpenter do the remake?
 
The trailer will be coming soon now. It's been cut, now it needs polishing and I need to write the music. My brand spanking new music mixing software will be delivered tomorrow hopefully, and then I'll write the music, and send it off to Craig, the guy who's making the trailer for me, who will finish it, polish it, and burn it for me. Then it will be put online at Www.zippyvideos.com, the new free video hosting page I found today.

As for John Carpenter, fuck him. I hate John Carpenter. I assume you've seen my website haha.



NEW UPDATE as of Nov. 14


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This is Pat Cable. He is going to host the trailer on his website. If you ever see him, give him a hug.



This is the first music track I've done so far. This will be in the trailer, as well as in the fight scene at the end. This is royalty free music that I made in garage band and have not copywrited. Feel free to share it with interested parties. The song is availible for free download, Courtesy of Mr. Patric, at the following link. Click to listen, right-click and select Save Target as (or Download Linked File on a Mac) to download:

http://etk.pcable.net/handcuffst.mp3

This is a simple song constructed from loops in garage band. Nothing special really, just sounds good. The music in the movie will be a combination of orchestra/western sounding music and rockish music such as this. Just listening to it straight may make is sound slightly repeditive and also makes it's abrupt end a little rough. When you see it cut to the trailer itself, it will flow right.
 
Okay, here's something that I'm sure you guys can help me out with. I need guns. Specifically, I need 2 prop Heckler and Koch Mp5k's.

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I need atleast one, preferably two. I was hoping to get a good deal on an airsoft one on ebay, but they are a little too pricey even for the cheap ones. Anyone got ideas?

UPDATE as of Nov. 20,

Craig and I have been bussy as all hell because of pre-thanksgiving exams and things of that nature. So sadly, the trailer is being shoved back some more. There's only a little more to do on it. Since Craig origionally cut it to a song by Enrio Morricone (music composer for "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" and many other spaghetti westerns), we have to adjust it slightly to fit the music and also I want to rewrite the titles to fit the story a bit better. Otherwise we're done, and it's pretty lame that we don't have time this week to finish what is probably a half an hour's worth of work. But I'll keep you posted and maybe we'll luck out.
 
I know a site that sells weapon replicas that they use for the movies... what is your budget exactly?

Well here is a good one. Oh and they have trigger conversion kits in case you want to turn your AR-15 into a full automatic rifle, and yes, it is legal.

http://www.flashdistributor.com

Hope that helps.

Though the prices are tad over twenty bucks, they are are good, I should know, I own a Desert Eagle from them. But Ebay never fails, especially if you need something inexpensive.

Another cheap alternative is www.cheaperthandirt.com now they have a lot of surplus military gear, items that you maybe interested in you need further props for your post apoc movie.

Coleman's Surplus
And if you're interested getting an actual Gieger counter (you're choice between if it works or not) and other radio gear, check out
www.colemans.com and some real authentic gear so check it out.


I have a stock of surplus magazines so this is what came to mind.

So the list

Coleman's Surplus www.colemans.com
Cheaper Than Dirt www.cheaperthandirt.com
Flashdistributor http://www.flashdistributor.com


Hope this Helps.
 
Carib FMJ said:
... what is your budget exactly?
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Twenty bucks...but Cheaperthandirt.com has some stuff that looks quite promising, thanks a bunch. As for the Ar15 stuff, that's kinda cool, if I ever pick up an ar15 I'll probably try it out.


ANNOUNCEMENT:
The trailer is done. Anyone who wants an early copy send me a private message with your email adress and I'll email you a really junky mp4 copy. If you're patient enough to wait, the quicktime file will be availible on my new website, www.PerniciousParadise.com. But the website isn't finished yet, so you'll have to wait a week or so until I can finish the site and upload the trailer. The small version is 2ish mb, the high quality version is around 50.
 
Damn, I can't wait to see the trailer. I'm listening to the mp3 you linked to earlier, and I must say that it sounds nice.
Kinda reminds me of the Wild West song from TimeSplitters 2, if you don't mind me saying.
 
I havn't played timesplitters enough to have heard it, but thanks for the complement. I've heard that the music in that game is pretty good. I have been going for a very slight western feel to the movie, just with the music and the gunfighting sequences etc.

Still working on the website, and I've got to get ahold of Sorenson Squeeze to compress the trailer's file to make it reasonable for download. The small version is still availible through email. Will keep ya'll updated.
 
Okay, here it is:

www.perniciousparadise.com/madnationtrailer.mp4

This link will bring you directly to the download. It works fine on Firefox, and I assume it has no trouble with Netscape. If you use Safari (mac's equivalent of IE) or some versions of Internet Explorer, my website will hate you, so download firefox ( www.mozilla.com ). Enjoy and leave feedback/worship me.

Disclaimer: This file is a 3 mb Mp4, meaning it's overly compressed, might not play properly in some programs, will take a while to download with a slow connection, and the picture quality will be crappy if you play it full screen. A better file in a better format will be availible as soon as possible.
 
looks good. great work, when can we expect the full length feature film on dvd.... sent free to NMA members of course :)
 
The DVD will be when ever it's done hah. Hopefully by fall '06. I'm expecting to get the bulk of the work done this summer.

The DVD will cost me too much money to produce to give it away for free, I'm afraid. Even if I charge 10$, which is what I expect to charge, I just bairly break even, not including the hundreds I spent to make the movie. But the movie itself will be free to download when it's done, and maybe I'll give away a couple dvds as a promo thing.
 
Niice! I like it! But maybe some more slow-mo sequences? When you fire that lighter up for ex. Makes it look more actionpacked and "professional" =P at least more action packed :D
 
I was going for fast paced cuts. But there are some good slow motion clips in the movie. I'll consider slowing down the lighter in the scene though, it might be helpful.
 
Um. I just noticed, in your av, this jet condensation cloud.

Airliner jets kinda ruin a post-apocalyptic setting, no? :D
 
InTheOnlineAsbestosSuit said:
Another similarly badass shot of Bane, showing his M4 carbine. This is the first of several M4s that keep poping up through the story that are in suspiciously good condition, one of a few early clues as to the nature of the enemy that arises in the sequil: the reformed totalitarian Emperial American Government (the pre war ruling body over everything south of the canadian boarder that was wiped out by Nato in the war).
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An excuse, perhaps?
 
Wooz said:
Um. I just noticed, in your av, this jet condensation cloud.
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Kotario answered you're question before I got to :)

I figured that there'd be moments when I couldn't avoid having little accidents like that, and so I built an insurance policy into the story line: the bad guys are, more or less, a much smaller, more realistic version of The Enclave. I -could- photoshop the cover photo (my avitar) to get rid of the jet trail, and I -could- edit the moving truck out of the back ground in one of the shots, and mast out the sound of the airplane in the back ground in another, and do this and that and blah blah blah. But it's so much easyer, and I think more fun, to just give it a reason for being there.

Aside from that, if you think about it, it's only logical that in a post nuclear world, there would probably be atleast one group with the power to get ahold of enough money and technology to repair airplanes and cars and things. If there wasn't, who'd be the new feudal lords?

I'm glad to see that the publication of the Trailer has brought on some thoughtful discussion though haha. And I'm glad to see that people are paying enough attention to point out things that are usefull.

MethidParadox said:
you should work on lighting effects to add more emotion to scenes.. seems like everything is so ridiculously bright =/
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If you like strong lighting, check out anything in the Film Noir genre. As for this, the scene where Todd and Gray chat in the hotel room (beginning when Gray has his gun trained on the door off camera and Todd yells "it's Todd, don't fucking shoot me" before coming in) needs more lighting effects yeah, but other than that all the brightest scenes are out doors, and I try to do as little to those as possible because they usually look pretty good already. Were there any particular scenes that you were talking about?
 
Wooz said:
Um. I just noticed, in your av, this jet condensation cloud.

Airliner jets kinda ruin a post-apocalyptic setting, no? :D
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28 Days Later, anyone?

Also,it's no airliner, it's Hitler's nuclear payload V2.
 
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