Greetings ladies and gentlemen of Forge Hub. We are the Forging Spotlight, here to interview any and all forgers, as long as they wish to be interviewed. As we have now interviewed several forgers, we would be honoured if the talented members of the community would contact us with your maps, so we can get you on and interview you about it. Our format is simple. We invite the forger, or forgers, to an xbox live party and we load up your map on Halo : Reach. I, DopplerRedShift, will be interviewing you, and my partner JB662 will be recording, as you hopefully will take us through the map. After all, you are the forger. Who knows the map better? We are a new channel, but we wish to continue onwards. So far, we have interviewed the following people - The Forging Spotlight Episode 1 Affliction by Zenixlio - YouTube - Affliction by Zenixlio The Forging Spotlight Episode 2 Erasure by BlazeIsGodly - YouTube - Erasure by BlazeIsGodly The Forging Spotlight Episode 3 Roundabout by o UrbanMyth o - YouTube - Roundabout by UrbanMyth The Forging Spotlight Episode 4: Premise by AceofSpades0707 - YouTube - Premise by AceOfSpades The Forging Spotlight Episode 5: Hellbent by DHG Redemption7 - ENDGAME:Hellbent by DHG Redemption7 We will continue to update this thread as soon as we upload a new episode. If you wish to be interviewed, we can be contacted in the following ways - -A message on xbox live to either DopplerRedShift, or JB662 -An email to Forging.Spotlight@gmail.com -A private message here on Forge Hub -A message to our YouTube Channel here : ForgingSpotlight's Channel - YouTube We thank you immensely for taking time to read this, any help you could give would be invaluble to us, be it allowing us to interview you, suggesting improvements, creating content we could use, linking us to users who are interested, or promoting us. To stop any confusion, you can send the maps in the following ways - 1) Send us an email with a link to the map on your fileshare 2) Send us a private message on Forge Hub with the link to the map on your fileshare 3) Send us a message on xbox live asking us to check out your fileshare on Reach, to save you the time of typing out the URL 4) Send a message to our YouTube channel. Email : Forging.Spotlight@gmail.com Gamertags : DopplerRedShift, JB662 YouTube Channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/ForgingSpotlight We are available from the following times (Note, now we are only available on weekends) - GMT : 11 am - 10 pm EST : 6 am - 5 pm PST : 3 am - 2 pm CST : 6 am - 5 pm MST : 4 am - 3 pm Finally, if you are interested in helping us grow, we are currently looking for a more polished looking intro, to replace the one designed by me, DRS. We would also be very happy if someone were to send us a design for a more refined background for the YouTube page, all submissions would be credited. For future refrence in this thread, as this account is owned by two, and we are differentiated by the end tag of ^DRS or ^JB JB - JB662 DRS - DopplerRedShift We are Forging Spotlight, and we thank you.
I was going to send you a little feedback so I guess I'll post it here. Instead of doing the interviews in forge, I think it would be a lot better if you did them in a custom game. You could still do the walking around the map with the creator and then have JB go into the film in theater and follow you around while recording. It would look a lot cleaner because all the spawn points and objectives wouldn't show up and you wouldn't have the annoying buzzing sound that JB's monitor makes. I'm no video-maker, but I'm assuming you could import the audio from the custom game into the recording that JB made from theater. Just a suggestion to make your videos a little cleaner and more professional. Like I told you guys, I love what you're doing. Keep it up!
So do we send u a map link so you can decide whether you wanna interview us or not? Or do you just check our maps?? I am confused??
<3 I'm always up for another whenever you guys want. Thanks for getting me in on one of the first few though.
@AceOfSpades, Yes while that would look cleaner, we wanted to show the spawn points, to give a proper run-through of the map. @Forgelover, we currently look through the forums for maps we like, but we are perferctly happy for you to send us them. @BlazeIsGod, thank you, whenever you want us to interview you, just send us an email, and we will set it up.
I'd be glad to be interviewed if you want to do so when my new map comes out. It's a BTB map which I think has a lot of promise. If you're interested, let me know and I'll get in touch then (probably a week or two).
So how is the interview process work? How do you determine who gets interviewed? I haven't watched the videos but I like the concept. It's like a Community Spotlight... but actually relevant to Forge.
They pic out maps they like, talk with the creator for a span of 2 weeks or so, and then pretty much let the creator give them a tour around the map, asking them questions along the way.
Well I sent a PM to you yesterday ForgingSpotlight. I figured that would make more sense than posting my request here.
We saw that, you will be the next person that we interview ^JB yeah just send us your maps, then if its awesome then we'll invite you for an interview ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: Sure, just send us the map when you've finished it ^JB We saw that, you will be the next person that we interview ^JB yeah just send us your maps, then if its awesome then we'll invite you for an interview ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: Sure, just send us the map when you've finished it ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: Your welcome, when you want us to interview on another map just send us message, either on here or on XBL ^JB
OH ME! I've got so many to choose from! I'll send you my favorites as soon as i figure out how. . . In the meantime look up Maverick V1 in Reach competitive maps. I'm actually working on a new map preview as we speak. ::EDIT::this thread should be stickied
Interesting concept, but Im not sure if any of my maps would be up to scratch enough to be interviewed on them. One suggestion I will make though, is if you want to show where all the spawn points and things are still, but get too many complaints about the Monitor hum, go through in Forge and complete the interview, then load up the film in Theater and record from there. That way, there won't be any annoying hum, plus you could do some dynamic cuts and camera angles to sell it a bit more and make it look more professional. I assume the recording is being done on a capture card? If so, it shouldn't be hard to do some basic editing, then overlaying the recorded audio.
I'd be interested in an interview once, as everyone else has said, my current map is done. That should be in just a few weeks, it is very close now. Here is a Link to the preview of my map Embarcadero. It is the first on the list of the map pack. Edit: I will link to the map when it is finished and released.
We'd be more than happy to do an interview for an unreleased map, were not going to turn anyone or any type of map down ^JB We'd be more than happy to do an interview for an unreleased map, were not going to turn anyone or any type of map down ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: If you think that a map deserves to be shown to the community then by all means send them to us, they can be any map, we don't have a certain quality standard, it's up to you if you want to send us the maps ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: We have now updated the opening post, to clarify any problems you may have had with submitting. [br][/br]Edited by merge: Look back at the original post from us, it will tell you how to send maps to us and the times that we are available according to your timezone ^JB [br][/br]Edited by merge: The interview process works by either you contacting us, or us contacting you. If you want to be interviewed, just send us a message through any of the means we have given, and we determine the interviewees based on first come first serve mainly, but only in the sense of when we do the interview. We won't turn anyone back, and if there are possible connection issues we can try and find a work around. ^DRS