^ That part about Cloud is a very good point. They're asking for $400,000 but have yet to put a face to the most important character of all of them. But I guess that's the whole point - professional actors must be paid: You need money to pay the actors, and you need to show acting to get money. Maybe they should have asked for less and just pledge to make the first season, I don't know.
I am impressed with the kickstarter video, and I am impressed with what they've managed to pull together. The visuals look really good and the music sounds great. But there are a few key things I would like to know more about - like does there even exist a manuscript? I see it says so in the text, but I can't recall the video mentioning it. Sorry if it does. Anyway I'm missing a breakdown of the project, basically. A catch phrase, the vision summed up very shortly. Not just "make a live action of VII", but something like "the story of VII told from the POV of Cloud" or something similar (I see it says "the story follows Cloud" but that's not the same), because I think crossing over to a different medium always means you have to change the story a bit, or, tell it a different way. To me it isn't important at all that Aerith's dress has the right color. It's more important that the dialogue between her and character x is good, and we're yet to see any dialogue between the actors. Impressive visuals to me is 'okay wow that's neat' but that doesn't matter if the dialogue that follows falls flat on its face.
What I would like to see is something like: Put Tifa's actress and Barrett's actor in a bar and shoot a 2 minute scene with dialogue. Something like where they talk about Shinra, Avalanche, life in Midgar and recently finding Cloud, or something. That to me would tell me right away if I have faith in the project or not, because to me the manuscript and understanding the characters is pretty much key. I would love to see some of the storyboards mentioned as well.
But, as I said, without money that's probably hard to do. And $380,000 in 23 days is a lot of money. I don't doubt there are fans of VII enough, but it's probably hard to reach out to all of them.
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Will you ever use the words "Dilly dally shilly shally?"
Er, no, and we're kind of offended that you would ask that. We're remaking FFVII, not Advent Children.
To me this has a bit too much 'tude for a project that fronts itself as being 'professional'. At least recognize that Advent Children has been a door opener into the VII universe for a lot of people. I get a 'we want everybody to give us money, but we'd prefer it if it was just the oldschool VII fans' vibe from this answer.
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I think as soon as people see barret in the videos, the think... er, no thanks
I can look past this fact because I realize there is more going on with the vision, but like Pixel said, others might not.
I'm telling the Moogles ... wait where are the Moogles! :o
