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A new documentary project has appeared on Kickstarter.com, entitled 'The Sons of Starcraft', and features Tastosis, where the documentary will show a month in the life of the casting archon.
heres an excerpt :
'If you play Starcraft 2 then you know Tastosis, a team of two nerds casting video game matches and living the good life in South Korea.
What you may not know is how they got there in the first place. How did these guys drop their lives, move across an ocean and become one of the most influential casting teams in the world today? How do you get to sick nerd baller from just plain nerd? That's what we want to find out.'
Basically, these guys will travel to korea, and see what a month being the worlds sickest nerd duo is like.
Please visit their page and take a look at their project.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1751892223/the-sons-of-starcraft?ref=live
*disclaimer, im not the maker of this documentary, i simply saw the post up and saw that there was no coverage on TL. Should the creators wish this thread deleted to put up their own thread, i will definitely oblige*
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Edit: Im seeing a lot of talk about their funding and donations, and i think in order to comply with TL's rules on advertising, we should leave that stuff out and discuss the project itself instead.
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I'm all for documentaries about the greatest game(s) in the world, but does anyone else notice that makers of the documentaries always need donations? One would think that factoring in budget would be a part of the process.
Regardless I'm sure it'll be great.
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Sounds interesting, hoping you reach your goal, would love to donate!
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C'mon everybody, donate and let's get this documentary made!
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On September 02 2011 11:26 Arterial wrote: I'm all for documentaries about the greatest game(s) in the world, but does anyone else notice that makers of the documentaries always need donations? One would think that factoring in budget would be a part of the process.
Regardless I'm sure it'll be great.
Well you have to remember that a lot of these are amateur projects, with a lot of startup costs involved. They said they'll put up some sort of preview video to show us what they hope to achieve. The community is also very generous, as weve seen in the past.
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On September 02 2011 11:29 HKGxPython wrote: C'mon everybody, donate and let's get this documentary made! Sounds like soliciting to me.
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I dig it, but that is a pretty hefty goal in such a short time...I will have to figure out how much to pledge.
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I'll donate, the rewards for the different sums of money seem pretty cool as well in addition to getting the documentary made
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I hope this goes through as planned. Hopefully the TL community will be helpful.
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2k already
My money for e-sports
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please read the edit at the bottom of the OP. its probably for the best if we leave talk of donations and funding out and focus on the project itself.
ill start: how much content do you think we'll actually get? a month is a long time, but a lot of that is just GSL casting, no?
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Did tastosis agree with this somehow?
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You know, what I would find really interesting is say, a documentary wherein a guy lives in Korea for say a half year or a few months or whatever, and documents not only the korean pro gaming life/houses, but also the rise and fall of champions (as the cycles seem to take a couple months unless Nestea randomly wins two GSLs in a row).
Basically I want to get to know the korean scene more as people in addition to as players, and also the foreigners who leave home to try to made it into GSL, as well as the other people in the industry, not only casters but also the rest of GOM (they're not just casters there you know). And by this, I don't just mean their past, but also the present and their goals for the future. As DongRaeGu said, he plans to put the glory years of his 20s on the line to try to make it big in SC2. This Tastosis project is definitely in the direction of that, but I feel even more could be done.
I would totally take more time to come up with a good, concise idea for such a project if I weren't in university right now.
Actually, maybe I will start planning out how I would do such a project, and in a couple months when graduation looms, if I am still interested in it and feel that it would be useful I might create a kickstarter thing for that.
Being a code monkey, I think it would be great not only to having something in documentary form, but also a (possibly interactive) website. But what content would be there other than the documentary?
The most mundane thing would be that I like having things to read, and perhaps mini bios that aren't particularly mini, that detail a player's history with such and such. More interactive-type things I can't thing of any particular thing that would actually be useful and not gimmicky atm, but I guess I should start thinking o.o
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motbob
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Um, although the intent may be noble, this definitely isn't allowed.
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