WoW Moviewatch: Where in the WoW is George?
The video is created entirely from stills or in-game footage. There's not a lot of the model changing, filtering, or framework that characterizes so much of contemporary machinima. I actually find the purity of in-game footage refreshing occasionally, and the method works out for this kind of quick-cut humor.
The jokes themselves are pretty funny, and kept me interested through the movie. They're simple, fast gags, and everyone performing in this video is obviously having a lot of fun. That kind of love-for-the-show can go a long way toward endearing an audience, and that certainly happened with me.
Rumor has it the creator scored the highest marks possible on their Masters project, so I wish them sincere congratulations.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andrew R. Mar 2nd 2010 12:14PM
"Welcome to cooking with Tauren. We're having steak."
I couldn't stop laughing for some reason at that line. How serious he was when he said is what made it great.
This was definitely one of the more off the wall random videos but overall it was good. The Wailing Caverns skit with the toilet was good too.
ryan Mar 2nd 2010 12:21PM
whatever class "HUP072N Creative Research and Project Development" is, it is surely not a class on video production or story telling.
PS. If all your clips have the fraps shit at the top, crop all your footage to get rid of it
Kyrro Mar 2nd 2010 12:58PM
Mr. Happyface R here.
Rowan Mar 2nd 2010 12:28PM
Some laughs but, there were some parts that I didn't find too funny. Overall though, I enjoyed this. The bloopers were probably the best part.
Ilunc Mar 2nd 2010 12:46PM
Better than a Belf rap, but that's not hard to accomplish.
shizzammer Mar 2nd 2010 12:47PM
indeed, the ice stone has melted.
Samutz Mar 2nd 2010 1:27PM
The Ice Stone has melted!
Has it been a year already?
Malkavos Mar 3rd 2010 8:58AM
More than, actually. I miss the ice stone... but then again I kinda don't.
Jamie Mar 2nd 2010 12:56PM
Suprisingly one of the best things on moviewatch I've seen in a while, even if it was amateur it was quite funny, the sketchshow idea works well.
ScorchHellfire Mar 2nd 2010 8:52PM
/agree
I found this pretty funny throughout and I enjoyed it much better than all those damn music videos... Why are there so few good story machinimas nowadays? I remember in the first couple years of WoW there were tons of ongoing series and now its all died down a lot... Try to find some good stuff on Warcraftmovies.com and almost everything is guides,pvp videos, or more music videos... that's not real machinima...
kharny Mar 2nd 2010 1:13PM
:O This was done by my GM, /cheer!
kharny Mar 2nd 2010 1:16PM
ignore the further down comments, just i was the pirate and the reply system sucks...
kharny Mar 2nd 2010 1:14PM
... also the pirate is me, but i wasnt involved in the voice acting :
kharny Mar 2nd 2010 1:15PM
sigh... that was meant to be a reply to my first comment.
Cap Mar 2nd 2010 1:39PM
While the jokes weren't bad for WoW lovers, I have to slightly agree with Ryan above (though more constructively), that having the www.fraps.com watermark on your Masters level project is really not so good. And, as he also alluded, there isn't much of a point here--just a series of site gags a la Laugh-In. I call this a good first-effort, not "highest marks possible" on a Masters project.
Eddy Mar 2nd 2010 2:01PM
I agree with that.
I'd also add that I made some machinima for my after effects class that (possibly due to a lack of a mac version of wow model viewer and the puppet-tool shortcuts I took to get something watchable) has been rejected from WoW moviewatch- however it got a pretty decent grade out of my video professor. Sometimes grades are based on something the teacher has never seen before, not what's possible in the field.
Randy* Mar 2nd 2010 1:44PM
"He's got a nasty bug!"
"Baaaaaa."
And the fact that there is actually water in WC made that joke work even better. A loud fart would have been classic.