About Main movie
Length: 02h 54min 38sec
Size: 10 GB
Resolution: 1280x720 30fps
Codec: x264
Overall bit rate: 8 252 Kbps
The DECADE
2000/2001 - First contact (on a 400MHz Laptop)
2002 - The beginning (having fun on Snafu and other publics)
2003 – The first steps (getting serious practice)
2004 – Out of nowhere (The Ascension)
2005 – The cockblock (wasting precious time)*
2006 – Back on track (recuperating the skills)
2007 – Reaching the top (hard work pays off)
2008 – Aftermath (keeping it up)
2009 – The future (quake goes live)
2010 – Retirement?
2011 - Epilogue
2012 - CXT 16
* with World of Warcraft
The very first movie was a 1m21s long self-composed movie,the idea came up during a multiplayer-session “Hexen I” (greetings mortal ...).
2007 March
The whole project started with the first attempt by spawnsen, who had only finished a single movie before (Killer Instinct Gold).
After some discussions about the concept, timeline, we both found out that this project is a little bit to big for him. Compressing 10 years of gaming into a 30 minute movie is just impossible.
2008
Another movie-crew (NGA-Productions - Sinex) attempted it.
Trailer 29.03.2008
(9.4mb)
Trailer2 26.04.2008
(28.5mb)
Concept-Movie / Lan-History 25.08.2008
(31.6mb)
2 Trailers, 1 conceptmovie later and after the guys from NGA had reviewed the whole content, the sheer size of the project and length of the final movie destroyed their motivation too.
2009 June
At the end of 2009 Zero-QL from Hans-Sai Production stepped up and claimed the project. With such a professional movie-maker team, which had finished 20 projects in the past 3 years, the chances to finally get this project done raised enormously.
1 month after Han-Sai Productions reviewed the whole content, the first trailer was ready.
Trailer 03.08.2009
(44.4mb)
Hard facts:
Number of demos reviewed 5.500 (3.200h playtime)
70hours Reallife content
Km-traveled: ~30.000 (for tourneys / lan parties)
Hours of raw-movie-content created: 125h
The main movie is built up like a documentary, with the focus on quake and the tournaments but there are a lot small interludes which show non-quake related things, so be prepared for some surprises :).
Overall the main movie is meant as a "memory of the good old" days, so you will find some very specific in game scenes which are very hard or even impossible to understand for someone who hasn´t played quake.
Keep in mind that every scene has been selected and reviewed before it was put onto the scene-board and into the movie.
We had to review and select the content countless times and still created a over 2h long movie, so you can be sure that every scene in this movie was selected with a purpose.
It is highly recommended to watch the Explain-Part first, even if you are familiar with pc games.
Enough talk, lets type /ready….
Good luck and have fun
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