Janus Syndicate

Hi everyone. This has been one hell of a past few days. But before we get into a full-blown story, the video has been uploaded to my JsXanatos youtube account. A LOT of drama went into making this video (fiming choreographed sequences in Left 4 Dead didn’t help and recording a song for it), but that’s all behind us now.

Check it out here:

YOUTUBE:
A Hard Game’s Night – Left 4 Dead (HD)

A Hard Game’s Night – music video parody of The Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night song and opening title sequence from the movie of the same name.

It’s our first actual video in a LONG time that’s been posted on JsXanatos. It was meant to be a Machinima.com release, however, the question of the song being a true, full-blown ‘parody’ was in question since it’s such a grey area. To be a true parody, it would have to “make fun of, comment on, or critique the original work.” This does not exactly do that, and how could you make fun of the Beatles? Despite the fact that the song sounds so different and has different lyrics, the idea that it does not make fun of the original does not make it a parody, supposedly. There was also a lot of quarreling over the song – hope you like what’s in the final product.

Secondly, something fucking CRAZY happened. The video was on the machinima.com channel for about twenty minutes before the decision was made to take it down from there, and on the exact same day, a video was uploaded to the popular ‘BarelyPolitical’ channel called “Left 4 Dead Beatles”. Two brand new videos uploaded on the exact same day (July 29th) by two different authors with ideas for the same concept, yet two totally different videos content wise. I couldn’t fucking believe it. Crazy!

On a site related note, the dead links in the Audio Downloads section are slowly but surely being all fixed.

Anyhow, my video has been uploaded to my personal youtube for everyone to see. Enjoy!

-Xanatos

Our new Left 4 Dead short in the making is close to being completed. I have yet to talk to the machinima.com guys on a release date for it, but I see no reason for it to not be this week sometime. So without the double negative, yes, release SHOULD BE this week. It’s a bit different from what we’ve done in the past and we’ve entered new territory that we haven’t taken a stab at before regarding music (hint hint).

This video will also introduce another something NEVER BEFORE SEEN in a JS video – the use of the STAR WIPE transition. I know, incredible news. Oh, and we finally started recording our footage in widescreen 16:9 format to fill the whole Youtube frame. About damn time for that too.

I won’t spoil the other half of the concept not revealed in our last site post until we have our release post made. The video, again, is a short video. It honestly should’ve been created in a much faster time span, but recording footage in Left 4 Dead was the worst shit ever. You can probably imagine why. Ah well, still got it done, stay tuned this week!

Thanks all,

-Xanatos