Almost the last hurrah, this. Below the ‘cut’, if you will, you’ll find two videos that I edited and subtitled (well, except for the actual translation). Both were shot by Jörg ‘Kerensky’ Koonen during the Games Convention in Leipzig.
They’re performances of the winning entries for Set the Stage, the competition that we ran to get players to write scripts for the Aion and Guild Wars characters to perform. (The scripts were reworked by me to become suitable for performance, but these two are quite similar to the original material, with many lines remaining intact. You can download my script drafts for all six final entries at the official Aion and Guild Wars sites.)
The sound quality is not excellent – source was basically the speakers on the stand, which had to compete with everything around – so I’ve embedded the ‘normal’ and English subtitled versions. (There are also French and German versions of each – see below.)
As I said before, these stage performances were probably what I was most proud of achieving during Games Convention. Trust me; there were some obstacles to overcome! However, I personally feel the performances were excellent, given the lack of rehearsal time we had and the environment they were performing in, and I’m very proud to present them to you.
Aion: The Tower of Eternity – ‘Captive’ by Will Carpenter
Script performance draft by Stephen Reid
Subtitled in English
French subtitled version | German subtitled version
Guild Wars – ‘No Beautiful Day’ by Melanie Lauterbach
Script performance draft by Stephen Reid
Subtitled in English
#1 by Gangrel at September 13th, 2008
*sniggers*
Loved the Guildwars one, found it TOTALLY different to what i was expecting.
The Aion one was good, as it explained more about the game to me, as well as portraying (quite nicely) that not everything is black and white, and more that they are *both* good, just from their own respective points of view.
#2 by Zortel at September 13th, 2008
“Elyos, join me! Together, we can end this destructive conflict!”
Thanks to the Quest for GC videos, that was stuck in my head for Aion. Still, great camera work, and it only served to get me more interested in that gorgeous game.
As Gangrel said, I wasn’t really expecting the GW one to be like that, but it was amusing, especially the end. Would I be right in saying that they had a bit more time to reherse?
#3 by Rockjaw at September 13th, 2008
Everyone had about the same amount of time to rehearse; however, you’re actually seeing the very first performance of the Aion piece, and a mixture of the (I think) third and fourth performances of the Guild Wars piece here. So basically, they’re probably a bit more polished because they’d done it a few more times.
Guild Wars players will tell you that ‘No Beautiful Day’ isn’t really ‘canon’ in any sense, despite referring to many things that are in-game, but it was too much fun not to pick – and to win.