"Alte Nachrichten" My unfinished Movie in 10 parts

[Aces]

Alte Nachrichten (Old News) The Director's Cut including the lost U-boat scenes:



Hi folks,

I decided to release my unfinished movie that, sadly, I haven't been able to work on for the last few years.
As I mentioned, it was my ambition to release it once completed but RL got in the way, it's quite raw and unfinished in places but I'm tired of having it laying around on my hard drive going nowhere.

Cheers

Aces


Edit: and a few more screenshots to entertain you:

[Onkel Neal]

Thanks, downloaded the first parts. High Tide of the Wehrmacht.

[Jimbuna]

Seen the first three thus far

[Aces]

Thanks chaps,

Or you can now also view the whole movie online here:



Regards

Aces

[Jimbuna]

I am mightily impressed

[Herr-Berbunch]

^ Me too. That would've took an age to do!

[Aces]

Thanks for the kind words chaps. It was perhaps too big a project given my poor old PC. I lost an entire u-boat sequence that I did which annoys me greatly. I would have liked to have "enrolled" the services of a german voice actor and then I'd have re-written the dialog entirely myself. Also I now have new sims such as SH5, Red Orchestra 2, Steel Fury, CLOD, PT-Boats Knights of the Sea and of course SH3 with GWX3 plus the latest and greatest mods etc. which would have also been incorporated. It takes hours to get a few minutes of good footage and then there are the SFX to do which take even longer. All in all it took about two years to get as far as I did, another year or thereabouts would have gotten me to the finishing post.

The main thing was I though "why not do something with what you've got before it goes walkabout and gets wiped on one of my numerous external hard disks" as it has been laying around for the last four years eating away at me that I hadn't finished it in the way that I really wanted too.

I remember watching the original series "Heimat" directed by Edgar Reitz with fascination and being deeply interested in the socio-political anthology of Germany partiocularly in the 20s, 30s and 40s and of also watching the original "Das Boot" series and reading later about the psychological effects that the film had on the cast being locked away inside the u-boat set during filming. I have always been intrigued with the way that Nazism insidiously permeated into all aspects of German life. I was hoping that the intro sequence would encapsulate a little of this if that doesn't sound protentious. For example I added the wartime childrens board games to the family around the radio scene and other small visual metaphores.

I'm glad that you enjoyed it, thanks again,

Best wishes

Leigh (Aces)

[TarJak]

Shame you never got it finished. Very impressive piece of work.

[Aces]

Thanks mate, hope all is well with you and yours. Maybe one day I'll be able to finish it.


Aces

[Penguin]

I like it! Very immersive. Glad you decided to publish it, even though it's not finished - much better than letting it rot on your hd. One can clearly see how much effort and sweat but also enthusiasm you put into it.
If you decide to finish the film, you might contact me if you like a pendantic German to help you polish it


(also bumping the thread so more people might check the film out, it's worth it)

[Aces]

Thank you for your kind words my friend, yes it was a lot of work. Actually I'm starting to get a little excited about finishng it. I captured some new stuff from PT-Boats and Red Ochestra 2 yesterday evening and I managed to get my SH3 install running again "of sorts". I would also like to incorporate some footage from Steel Fury and SH5.

My main issue is "do I still have the original footage somewhere as opposed to the movie segments?". If I have then it would be better as I could add new scenes to them as required, re-compress without the subtitles and then re-do the subtitles or better still re-do the narration and the subtitles before putting it all back together again. The reason the I broke it down into segments was to make it easier to edit etc.. Each segment is un-compressed and then the final assembly in virtual-dub with compression.

I'd welcome any assistance you could offer especially as you speak German. That would be a great assistance. When a friend kindly did the German voice-over at the beginning and helped with some of the newsreel translation he mentioned to me that it would be difficult to immitate the original newreeder's voice as "german wasn't spoken like that anymore" so that might be difficult. What could be done is re-write the whole narrative rather than rely on Wochenschau original narrative.

I wanted to set it in 1942 as this was a pivotal year for the Wehrmacht leading up to El-Alamein, Stalingrad and the later stages of Battle of The Atlantic etc.

Thanks again for your posting and for the "bump" , hope to speak to you again soon.

Kind regards

Leigh (Aces)

[Fubar2Niner]

Hi Leigh,

First off welcome back on deck mate, I hope all is well with you and yours.

Second, thanks to you Penguin for bumping this, I missed it till now
I started by d'l the first 2 parts and watching...... You had me hooked, just finished watching the 50 minute version on youtube, amazing! Bloody amazing!!

Favourite parts? Too many to list, but way up there is the footage on board the Tirpitz, this must have taken an age to capture. You seem to have wringed every single angle, it reminds me so much of old WW2 footage of battlewagons. Another small, but nonetheless lovely touch, the buzzards circling over the battlefield in Africa

Thanks to you old friend, you have me searching my old games, HDD's and archived mod disks for anything IL2, and looking to purchase "Theatre of War", ( not sure it will even run on win7 ). The Africa campaign airfield was populated so realistcally, could almost be a carbon copy of many b/w plates I have in my collection of reading material.

I salute and thank you for presenting to us what was obviously a labour of love. Maybe one day this will be finished, for me however this will always be a collectors edition

Very best wishes and genuine regards.

Fubar2Niner

[Aces]

Hello my old mate,

Sorry I've been such a recluse, SH3 won't run under Win 7 keeps CTDing for me so I've been working on a few mods for Steel Fury. I'm as bit "modded out" at the moment, can't get interested in gaming at all either.

I'm pleased that you enjoyed the movie, I'm delighted to say that I've found a later version of the movie segments that inlcudes the proper U-boat segment and some other new stuff. Althought I can't get to the "source" files any more I might have enough to work with and finish the movie.

Yes, the Tirpitz stuff took and age to do, I found files foing back to mid 2006 and as late as late 2008 which was when I stopped working on it. I will re-upload the newer version and post the link here for those interested in seeing it.

Take good care of yourself mate,

Cheers and best wishes

Leigh

[Fubar2Niner]

Sorry to hear your troubles re win7. Works like a charm here, when you feel up to it pm me and I'll try help you out. Looking forward to your newer version, subscribed to your youtube acct now so should get an email on upload. Take care old bean

[Aces]

Thanks mate, appreciate it, I would love to get SH3 back up and running well.

Cheers

Leigh

Edit: BTW are youi on Skype at all?, maybe we could hook up for a chat one evening.