Did you expect the unexpected?

Around 2 months ago Creative Movies - in partnership with Sennheiser Communications, Razer, Fragbet, Qpad, ICY BOX and Spawnpoint - started an international movie contest called Director’s CUT in two categories (Counter-Strike and Open Games) and with great prizes, like $ 2000 in hardware and cash. Every movie need consist a 30 second long sponsor adverstisement, only movies with a minimum lenght of 5 and maximum of 15 minutes can take part, and the movie size cannot be more than 500 MB. Also the main rule is that movie submission must be an original, not previously published.

[b:: Prize Distribution:[/b]]1st Prize Counter Strike:
$150 Cash courtesy Fragbet
1x ICY BOX IB-NAS1000 $180
1x Sennheiser PC160 headset $130
1x Razer Copperhead $80
QPAD product line $94:
• 1x QPAD® CT™ Large 4mm
• 1x QPAD® Lanyard
• 1x QPAD® Wristband
• 1x QPAD® GLids

1st Prize Open Games:
$150 Cash courtesy Fragbet
1x ICY BOX IB-NAS2000 $180
1x Sennheiser PC160 headset $130
1x Razer Copperhead $80
QPAD product line $94:
• 1x QPAD® CT™ Large 4mm
• 1x QPAD® Lanyard
• 1x QPAD® Wristband
• 1x QPAD® GLids

2nd Prize Counter Strike:
1x Sennheiser PC160 headset $130
1x ICY BOX IB-NAS900 $90
1x Razer Copperhead $80

2nd Prize Open Games:
1x Sennheiser PC160 headset $130
1x Razer Copperhead $80

3rd Prize Counter Strike:
QPAD product line $94:
• 1x QPAD® CT™ Large 4mm
• 1x QPAD® Lanyard
• 1x QPAD® Wristband
• 1x QPAD® GLids

3rd Prize Open Games:
QPAD product line $94:
• 1x QPAD® CT™ Large 4mm
• 1x QPAD® Lanyard
• 1x QPAD® Wristband
• 1x QPAD® GLids


Today the competition reached the next step, the deadline for accepting movies was on Monday. In the last days the CM judge team selected the best movies and then they put them online for public voting. The final winner will be decided by 30% of the audience (community) votes and 70% of the CM judges' opinion. Voting just started and it ends on 10th March 2007.

[b:: The judge team[/b]] Creative Movies:
Melle
David
Mole2k
Xsystus
Xorn
Nikolay
Vocal

Invited judges:
Liquide – Liquide Films
Mrks – Shaolin Productions
Ripieces – Happy Hardcore Gamers
Tchouky – Shaolin Productions
Soniq – Chillside Productions AB
Vazze – wNv


Several movies are taking part in the contest, and some of them already dropped out. Only twelve great creations can compete, and there are movies from the biggest games: Counter Strike (6), Quake 3 (1), QuakeWorld (1), Half Life 2 (1), UT2004 (1) and finally in our lovely game, Enemy Territory (2) too.

[b:: The complete list of the movies[/b]]Counter Strike
Sunman 5
Insane Players 2
Madcat - Rise Of The Machine
Luckside - 2007
Avantgarde
Monty - The Cheeslover

Open Games
SEIDO (Quake3)
Kyu.One (QuakeWorld)
Winghaven : Out of the Way 2: Expect the Unexpected (Enemy Territory)
Civil Protection: Alien (Half Life 2)
The Longest Day (Enemy Territory)
Until The End (Unreal Tournament 2004)

Enemy Territory is represented by two movies, one of them is the new movie of the Nonix Moviemaker Studio, here is the next episode of the successful Winghaven : Out of the Way movie with a sonorous title: Out of the Way 2: Expect the Unexpected !

Nonix and Winghaven presenting
Out of the Way 2 : Expect the Unexpected

Codec: x264 (3700 KB/s)
Resolution: 848x480
Sound: FAAC (192 KB/s)
Length: 11:23 mins
Size: 313 MB
Project size: hundreds of GB
Project time: more than 1.5 years
Images captured by: 180 FPS
Number of frames: ~ 130.000

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Opinions about the movie:
[b:: - Max -[/b]]

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Nonix's sequel to the massive 2005 Golden Llama Nominee Winghaven: Out of the Way, has finally arrived. Winghaven: Out of the Way 2: Expect the Unexpected has been in the works for around 18 months and the hard work shows. Nonix has included an interesting story, visited cleverly at several points throughout the feature. The intro feels quite long, with some unnecessary information but once the frags start, and the well-chosen soundtrack kicks in, you forget all about it. Stylish editing and cams make up the majority of this movie, with only a few effects which didn't come off so good, and the frags are of mixed quality. The config and the outro aren't great but the editing is what I enjoy in movies, and Nonix did a good job balancing creative editing and a very nice soundtrack.

[b:: CS4f1[/b]]

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I’m not a movie expert, but one thing is sure: I will never forget this movie! It’s something different than any other fragmovies I watched till this time. The Expect the Unexpected has an own style, it’s not just bunch of frags, I really enjoyed watching it. The editing is just fantastic, now I know why took one and a half year to finish this video. People just cannot blame the music with this quality of editing, because it’s awesome, and in addition you cannot concentrate on that while watching the film, but you will see! Overall I regard this movie as a breakthrough, it shows some new way for the upcoming projects, and although it’s different than the first episode, it’s a very good sequel after all!

The second Enemy Territory movie is created by another skilled editor Thoro, and it shows this game from a different angle, this movie is worth for downloading too!

Thoro Pictures presenting
The Longest Day

Codec: x264
Resolution: 800x592
Framerate: 30 FPS
Length: 7:31 mins
Size: 168 MB
Project size: 153 GB
Project time: 3 months
Images captured by: 120 FPS

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Opinions about the movie:
[b:: Mashed[/b]]

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As always Thoro Pictures has produced a remarkable piece which is one of the few movies going up against the cs guys in the creative movie contest. It's nice combining battle scenes with voiceovers of a factual event of what happened yet inside the realm of Enemy Territory, it's a great job and I hope for Lukasz he gets those prizes!

Have fun while watching the movies, and if you like them, please vote for them (and for Enemy Territory) on the contest page to help reaching a good result in the Open Games Category!

Source: Creative Movies | Contest Page

/Update: The file is now fixed on the contest page, you can download the Winghaven movie from there too!