Current Events > I watched the Source Filmmaker feature length horror movie, Emesis Blue.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://youtu.be/V0ODG8bFme0?si=brJsadRQrpC3Zku-

Some observations:

The low point of the project is voice work. Some people are credited with different voices of the cast but for several lines you can hear some crackle of voice changer /ai work, the worst line in the film is the single voice line of Scout's mom which sounds like the Tiktok female text to speech. It gets better as the movie goes on, though partly because dialogue becomes more sparse.

On the other hand, a high point is sound design. Generally the most overlooked aspect of filmmaking by audiences and novices, the movie sounds pretty good.

The camerawork is dynamic and the lighting is really good. The setpieces are visually striking.

The plot gets pretty confusing. There are many supernatural elements and events that defy the bounds of the space and the continuity of the plot. The more cynical side of me says some of it is constructed to generate theory-crafting by the part of the internet who's into that, such as is super popular with "analog horror" (a genre Emesis Blue certainly flirts with).

Overall, not normally something I'd watch, but it was just really cool to see a SFM project using TF2 assets at this level of scope, ambition, and professionalism. And they pretty much pulled off their vision.

I like in tf2 how you can pull out your melee as medic, point at someone, press battle cry and sometimes he goes "I healed ze man who vil kill you!"

Like what does that mean, he fully expects to lose the melee fight they're about to have but is confident someone else could win in his place?

ViewtifulJoe posted...

I like in tf2 how you can pull out your melee as medic, point at someone, press battle cry and sometimes he goes "I healed ze man who vil kill you!"

ZE HEALING IS NOT AS REWARDING AS ZE HURTING

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/3/3/AAcZIZAAE0EJ.jpg

need a dispenser here

I know I should watch it and would enjoy it but I just can't talk myself into sitting down for a movie length SFM.

Drunk_Cobra posted...

I know I should watch it and would enjoy it but I just can't talk myself into sitting down for a movie length SFM.

i have the problem for anything movie length but then I end up mindlessly watching the equivalent amount of time of shorter less impactful youtube videos. eventually i convince myself to buckle down