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Post by massiefan on Jan 16, 2008 1:34:18 GMT -5
Okay, sounds cool! Only problem is, I can't do that conversion thingy with the DVD in order to get some really good Massie clips in a format that I can use for music videos. Totally off-topic, but how do you do that? If I knew how, I would probably do a vid to the Crossfade song for sure!
Can't wait for the finished vids...in fact, I'm so inspired I think I might write some fanfic tonight while I'm kid-sitting my siblings. Cheers brittany!
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Post by brittany on Jan 16, 2008 12:19:43 GMT -5
You would need a DVD Decryptor to convert the DVD into VOB files. After you do that, you need a program like SUPER to convert the VOB files into a workable file for your movie maker program, like AVI or WMV. If you still have no idea, just google the bold words.  |
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Post by massiefan on Jan 16, 2008 18:08:18 GMT -5
Thanks...I dunno if my computer would cope with those...*eyes her laptop doubtfully*
Oh wells, I guess that's why we've got great vid makers like you and chero to give our ships video support. I'm just here to do the graphics!
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Post by massiefan on Jan 19, 2008 19:06:35 GMT -5
The Queen of the Double Post requests your attention once again, loyal Massie shippers!!
*tee-hee*
Brittany and I have come up with an idea for a very cute and yet 99% innocent scene with Mace and Cassie in the Flight Deck. Well, sort-of in the Flight Deck, and sort of in the corridor, and so on. I won't give away too many details, but any of you that regularly read the RPG, stay tuned. I'm not entirely certain when this scene will be written - it may be a few pages away at the least - but when it is written, it will be so much awesome.
So, stick around, peoples.
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Post by massiefan on Jan 25, 2008 3:56:24 GMT -5
Yay! TRIPLE POST!
Just wanted to know if you guys are enjoying the...*ahem* entirely professional scene going on in the RPG at the moment. All thanks to must go to brittany for masterminding that one...although admittedly I was the one that got them both under the consoles. But, Cassie could've refused, so cheers to brittany once again for that.
Quite a sweet concept really, Mace teaching Cassie a bit about engine maintenance. I'm certainly enjoying it, especially as it's not being the cause of any conflict between characters or authors. Which is good - conflict = bad.
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Post by brittany on Jan 25, 2008 14:24:01 GMT -5
Yeah, the RPG is going well in the Massie department, but how about some other things? Anyone thinking about doing some fanart or another music playlist dedicated to this couple?  I just really don't want this thread to center around the RPG... |
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Post by massiefan on Jan 25, 2008 18:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by massiefan on Mar 10, 2008 23:39:15 GMT -5
Okay, well, I know this thread has been quiet for a while, but I return with a brand spanking new piece of fanart, the first ever wallpaper I have made on my NEW LAPTOP!!! Apologies to people without 1280x800 screens - that's the dimensions this is made to. Hope you guys like it anyway!  |
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Post by brittany on Mar 11, 2008 23:00:12 GMT -5
Oh no! The wallpaper is perfect but in the wrong board!  Did somebody forget to read the new rules for the Fan Fiction Board?  Nice work, though Massiefan. *SIGH*  The voting scene was amazing. It explained everything for me. |
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Post by massiefan on Mar 12, 2008 3:21:36 GMT -5
I thought I was allowed to post this here coz we've got the other fanart up on the first page?
Oh well, better go link it to the fanart page...
And I LOVE the Voting Scene. There's just something about the way Mace looks at Cassie...it's just like...I can't even explain it. All I know is that he gives her THAT LOOK and I'm hooked, falling in love with the Massie ship all over again. Can't help it. It's beautiful.
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Post by brittany on Mar 12, 2008 21:13:40 GMT -5
I thought I was allowed to post this here coz we've got the other fanart up on the first page? Oh well, better go link it to the fanart page... And I LOVE the Voting Scene. There's just something about the way Mace looks at Cassie...it's just like...I can't even explain it. All I know is that he gives her THAT LOOK and I'm hooked, falling in love with the Massie ship all over again. Can't help it. It's beautiful. If the fanart was posted before January 30th, then it's okay. It was before the update. And yes... Voting Scene is beautiful. It's hard NOT to incorporate it in a Massie music video. There's just no way to avoid it! Another scene that I liked was the deleted scenes of them in the Flight Deck. Cassie's anger at him and his passive nature towards her (compared to other crew members  ) is so adorable. I'm really happy to find that Gia sides with Massie. Now if only Mr. Garland can share a few words on the subject...  |
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Post by chero on Mar 12, 2008 21:30:57 GMT -5
Now if only Mr. Garland can share a few words on the subject... I wouldn't doubt it if Alex Garland directly says that Mace and Cassie were an item. It makes complete sense in the character backstories. Mace dreams about her. In his words, that's "end of story."  I'm a nerd, I know. You can even see their unique chemistry on the big screen. And if that wasn't enough, one deleted scene in particular screams the existence of the relationship: "Prepping for Docking." The monitor screen blinked "Separation" after Mace and Cassie ended their conversation with attitude. According to Danny Boyle and a number of his production crew, romance doesn't work in sci-fi movies. However, he never said anything about old flames (an image of Johnny Storm just came to me  ). How much clearer can you get? |
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 12, 2008 21:42:16 GMT -5
I, on the other hand, think that Garland didn't give any of the relationships a second-- or even a first-- thought. He just slapped together the character bios-- a task that, with fifteen minutes of planning, could, and should, have gone to the actors. He wasn't there for the relationships: he was writing "Sunshine" to present "big ideas." I think that he believes character relationships are trivial, to say the least, and that if you asked him to expound on any of the relationships in this film, he'd give you nothing but a quiet eyeful of snide contempt. I also think, however, that he flouts said belief to hide the fact that he has difficulty writing close human relationships. Danny Boyle said the romance between Capa and Cassie never really heated up in the film because sex in space doesn't work. I heartily disagree. I think the scene went missing because Garland couldn't come far enough down off his fluffy philosophical cloud to write it. In their scenes together, Byrne and Evans were milking what they could out of flat material. Does that make things "Massie"? No. It just means that two fine young actors were doing their best within the limitations of the script they were given.
But, hey, as usual, that's just me....
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Post by chero on Mar 12, 2008 22:28:08 GMT -5
This is only speculation, but it would make sense if Garland wrote the backstories by Boyle's request. The grand message of the film is attention-grabbing by itself, but Boyle enjoyed the character element of it as well. That explains the student digs, the filming process (i.e. Hiroyuki Sanada left the set once he finished filming. The other actors never formally said goodbye in order to promote a sense of loss.), and the nature of the Sun in the film (i.e. It became a character of its own.). That's probably not even all of it. As evidenced in his previous filmography, Boyle isn't "genre specific." He didn't make a simple "sci-fi feature." Sunshine is a complex mixture of several things. Science fiction was only a convenient backdrop. Above all, I loved the human drama. And I agree: sex would have been fun. However, I don't think its omission and the release of the backstories is sufficient material to loathe Garland. Everyone has their own vision. By default not everyone will be happy even if something was perfect. Just thank God for fanfiction! |
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Post by kaliszewski on Mar 12, 2008 23:06:03 GMT -5
No, it's not just the omissions and the backstories. Call it an old editor grousing or an unpublished writer's resentment, but I just get a really, really bad vibe off of Garland all the way across the board. Think it started when he shot Jim in 28 Days Later. What made it worse, then, was when, because of the jumble of alternate endings, it seemed as if Garland couldn't decide whether Jim was alive or dead. (Here's a tip, Mr. Garland: If you gut-shoot a one-hundred-and-forty-pound man with a .45 at a distance of five feet, he's dead.) I thought the shooting itself was vicious and cheap. I'm sure Garland was thinking something along the lines of Jim thought he was going to live! Oh, the cruel, poetic irony of it--! But I was thinking: You just killed the entire population of Great Britain. What, you have to kill Jim, too, to make a quota or something? He seems to think that our human need for hope is a weakness, as is our need as viewers to connect on a personal level with the characters in films, and that death somehow equals high drama. No, Alex: hope doesn't make us weak. Nor does our wanting someone to root for. And death isn't drama. It's just very, very ugly and sad, and it hurts like hell. So my dislike of Garland runs far, far deeper than Capa not bonking Cassie, or the actors not writing their own character bios. From what I've seen of his writing, I don't like his attitude toward characters in general. It's almost as if he uses them solely to illustrate human shortcomings: Existence is futile. Let me show you why. (Thanks, Alex, but, really, I think that most of us can get a pretty good grip on that idea all on our lonesomes.) When Capa "triumphs" at the end of Sunshine, his success comes off as arbitrary. After all the cards Garland has stacked willy-nilly against the mission throughout the film, the detonation of the payload seems almost an accident, a mistake that just happens to go the right way. But still at, of course, terrible, terrible cost to Capa and the rest of his crewmates. (I'm sorry, but one billionth of a second looking at pretty lights can't make up for the fact that you're being burned alive ninety million miles from home and your family will never know what happened to you. I wonder if Garland toyed with the idea of having the mission fail-- after Capa "saw the light." I wouldn't be at all surprised if he did. That would've shown us mawkish moviegoers, eh...? And Capa thought he might just pull it off! Oh, the cruel, poetic irony of it--! [Add space-is-a-harsh-mistress-ain't-it-all-pointless-slant-hopeless "revelations" to taste....]) Of course, he'd be welcome not to like my attitude, too. Works both ways. But, be that as it may, you're right: that's why God made fanfic. Gotta write some more one of these days, don't I...? |
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