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A friend of mine was telling me about Windows Movie Maker yesterday, and how they had made a video using some pictures in a slideshow with some music behind it.  I figured I’d give it a try, since I had been wanting to make a custom Halo video where you take cut-scenes and stuff like that and put it together it some music.  I had always liked those videos that I’ve seen other people put together, and wanted to make one with a song I first heard a few weeks ago, since I thought some of the lyrics went along with Halo’s story nicely.  I made the following video on my first try, it took about an hour, and I’m very happy with the way it turned out.

The video starts off with Master Chief leaving Cortana on High Charity, the Covenant holy city.  The dialogue in the scene is:

“When you get to Earth…good luck.”
“After I’m through with Truth…” (referring to The Prophet of Truth)
“Don’t make a girl a promise…if you know you can’t keep it.”

The next scene in the video shows Miranda Keyes taking the Index out of Halo’s control center right after it begins to fire, which would kill everyone and everything.  Since she removes it right as it’s firing, it doesn’t fully activate, and goes into stand-by mode.  The scene then cuts to Master Chief, on the Prophet of Truth’s ship, arriving back at Earth.  Lord Hood, which you meet at the beginning at the game, then asks the Chief what he’s doing on this ship no one has ever seen before and he responds with, “Sir, finishing this fight.”

“And the one poor child that saved this world”

I then used the entire December 4th video.  When you watch the video, you’ll notice the song playing mentions a boy that saved this world, just before it cuts to the scene of John and Linda from the beginning of the commercial.  When I had imagined doing this video, that is something I wanted to achieve.  In the previous scene, right as the camera pans to show Earth, the song also says the line, “And it’s someplace simple where we could live”.

The moment the December 4th commercial ends, I cut to the E3 2006 Announcement trailer, which I have cut in half, and used the second half.  Just by chance, there’s three cool timings that occur during this scene.  Right as the camera turns to show the structure activate, there’s a few main lightning bolts that touch the ground, and the music’s percussions sync up with two of these lightning bolts perfectly, and then right as the song ends, the last sound is synched up perfectly with the cliff falling and the water spraying up.

“This, is the way the world ends.”

Anyway, this was my first try, and I know it probably isn’t the best, but it was exciting to finally try out making one of these videos, and since I loved the way it turned out with just a little effort, I figured I’d share it with you all.

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