POWER! MORE POWER! WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Well... yeah... one could be excused for assuming that I finally got clunked on the head a little to hard with some sorta object give the title of this particular post. But I think I've sorta figured out what
I kinda wanna do for that first assignment.

Power in games as I said before is about the player having choices within the boundaries (rules and obstacles) to achive certain objectives (victory conditions). So given my limited experience with cinematography, video editing, special effects and so forth together with the fact I've only done one actual performance with the Force Arts Stunt Team (website is here, video of that performance is here), I figure I can combine the two to showcase Power in games - at least the Star Wars games by doing a choregprahed fight that will have extensive force power usage.

If I could get exactly what I want, this would be a full three minute choreographed fight with dialogue, plot, some characterisation, and some truly amazing stunts like an actual LucasFilms fight.... But that's akin to a pipe dream actually because with three weeks to do it all... that's a bit nuts. so the performance video I linked previously is waaaayyy to ambitious.

I'm thinking more along the lines of this, this, and perhaps this: Straight up fight. without plot or storyline or dialogue which lets the power of the lighsaber and the force powers themselves be the focus of the fight. I'm think a one minute to ninety second fight at the most.

Now as to showcasing force powers... I'm thinking of using a mix of game and movie based powers so that I can get some variety in the fight itself as well as just plain show off and grandstand what I can do with a saber. However, my limited video editing skills, access to professional stunt men, fight choregraphers and so forth SERIOUSLY limits what I can and can't do. There's also the fact that the full list of force powers... well... there's almost a hundred of them by my quick count from the games, movies and also the board game/rpg version. So for powers in a 90 second fight I'm gonna have to go with what I can reasonably do and also expect a partner of sorts to do:

The Force Pull
The Force Push
The Force Choke
Force Lightning
Ballistakineisis
Force Barrier
Force Jump
Force Speed

I figure that's enough to make any short fight fairly epic in stature. That said... I'll have to do more indepth research in to each one and see what really works and can be executed.... there goes my weekend off...