Team Video!

[Musser]

Hey Guys and Gals! Looks like there's pretty good interest in making a video and we definitely have the technology!

Post up video ideas in the form of specific scenes you would want to see in the video.

Example: There's smoke everywhere and eerie music in an open field. Suddenly MSU triathletes charge out of the smoke and start attacking dinosaur's made of cheese. The smoke clears and they realize they're on the moon. After killing the cheese dinosaurs they swim through space, bike through the sky, and run to the middle of the earth and the video ends in a huge explosion.

Obviously that example is not practical to make or a good idea. But the specifics are there and we can pretty clearly visualize what's going on. Post up your specific ideas for the video. We're probably gonna want to keep the video between 1-3 minutes. Too much longer or shorter isn't enough. We're not going to be able to fit too much stuff in the video so whatever we do will have to be inclusive of everyone who wants to get involved.

Post up if your interested too and we'll get a list of people to get involved with the video.

[Brad]

We should have a remake of scenes from this commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3S0wu4Zbfk

[Alex]

Maybe a large group doing the team cheer?

Obviously we may want to include some sweet clips from racing or practicing, but I think even better than that would be clips of a bunch of us cheering on our racers.

Also probably some good videos of us physically beating up some athletes from other teams. Particularly the fast ones.

[prattja8]

Here’s the video: It starts out with a wide angle shot of sunrise across MSU. Then, in the distance, the stirrings of life approach, a montage of us spinning at dem begins. BUT THEN out of nowhere the roof is ripped from the building, shingles and debris falling all around us makes it difficult to see the culprit of the damage. Darth Vader is riding on top of Megatron, eyes glowing bright red, body still smoking from the heat from his decent into the atmosphere out of deep space. As Megatron and Darth Vader tear into the building all seems lost, but then in our darkest hour a valiant crusader crashes into Megatron like a freight train. It's Eric Musser in glittering golden armor, wielding a sword of pure energy. Atop his valiant steed, Valn' Rok, a mighty golden dragon, scales glittering in the rays of the early morning sun. "GOOO!" he screams as the athletes below scatter. A mighty battle ensues; Megatron fires his ion canon knocking our hero off his compatriot. Valn' Rok lets loose a terrible roar as golden fire blasts from his massive jowls. Darth Vader drops deftly from Megatron’s shoulder just as our battered hero rises. Their weapons clash together, electricity jumping back and forth between their blades as Darth brings his powers over the force to bear. Eric is lifted into the air as the power of the evil Sith lord grips his throat. Above them Megatron and Valn' Rok fly clashing in a great battle, their patterns twisting up into the sky, Eric struggles to remain conscious as his blade falls from his weakening hand. A spear flies through the air, piercing Vader in the chest. Atop a hill the unmistakable form of a Spartan warrior garbed in nothing but a red cape, sword, shield, and speedo sized leather shorts approaches the club President. Bill Vann retrieves his spear and removes his steel helm, and pulls the president to his feet. A massive explosion lights up the sky as the golden scales of Valn' Rok become visible as he tumbles out of control towards earth, his body smoking from the weapons of Megatron. Musser and Vann watch helplessly as the triumphant Megatron streaks across the sky towards them. "You go Mr. President; I'll handle this pathetic hunk of space trash." Bill says with a smirk. The Spartan warrior turns to face his adversary. The leader of the Decepticons blazes towards Bill, engines on his back reaching maximum power. Bill runs full speed slamming his shield into the chest of Megatron shattering his chest armor. The transformer commander shrieks in agony as he fires missile from his shoulder and charges his massive laser. Bill handsprings backwards as missiles streak by exploding behind him. Bill lands and launches his spear into megatrons charging laser. Aquamarine colored fire erupts all around Megatron’s hand. Metal grinds on metal as megatron struggles to bend his ravaged arm. Bill hurls his shield striking Megatron in the leg, the evil space robot falls to one knee as the valiant Spartan strides towards him, fire burning all around. Vann’s sword flashes in the light of the flame as Megatrons head falls to the ground, his red eyes fade to black as death envelops Megatron. Meanwhile Musser runs to the side of his injured mount but is intercepted by a bolt of red light from the shadows of a bush. Lord Voldemort's wicked grin appears as he walks towards the powerful, albeit confused hero. Musser takes up his weapon and prepares himself to battle the terrible master of the dark arts. Magic erupts from Voldemort’s wand as green sparks fly from Eric’s sword as he absorbs the powerful magic. Our hero gallantly swings his sword but Voldemort back flips and dodges the mighty blow. More powerful magic zooms from Voldemort’s wand and strikes Musser in the chest blasting him back ten feet. Voldemort strides towards our hero pointing his deadly wand at Musser’s unprotected face, "Pathetic." he utters. Our hero musters all of his might releasing a thundering roar and rends the dark wizard in two. Evil vanquished, Vann and Musser register for some triathlons, they win all of them.

Anyways that’s just what I think the video should include.

[Musser]

Hahahahahaha that was extensive... WOW. Good video, we might want to have James Cameron or George Lucas direct it though and make some money off of it.

[prattja8]

To be honest as much as I wish we could have awesome badass race scenes not only would it be hard to do, but the quality would also be far lower due to camera restrictions. I think for the sake of ease and professionalism I think the majority of the scenes should be training, team functions, some pictures of us at races, and team functions. Anything that will give a wide appeal to the club and something in a controlled environment where we can refine the scene untill its the way we want it.
-jake