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The following is a paid production of the NSFL:
As the NSFL primetime logo fades, the music begins to play. You can hear the twang of the guitar followed by the beat of the drums. A pair of heels walks across the Fifty yard line and the vocals of Faith Hill begin to rise. ?"Waiting all day for a simulated night" ? in a true american country fashion. As Ms. Hill continues to sing, various NSFL players are shown getting ready for "the big game." The camera works it's way through the locker room and sitting in front of his locker is the rookie Calkewlated Chambers the third. Ms. Hill finishes up the chorus as she leans onto Mr. Chambers shoulder. Mic in hand she extends the gesture. In a ear screeching fashion ? ? "It'll be simulated football when the SaberCats roll into townnnnnnn" "The stadium will be rocking, time to crank up the sou-(voice cracks)nnnnnd" ? ? The camera focuses on his nervous smile in conjunction with his "deer in the headlights" eyes. The music continues to play but no further verse is heard. Ms. Hill hastily walks toward the locker room exit only to look back and see Mr. Chambers' goofy smile intact and still staring at camera #3. She reaches the field and looks up at the skycam just in time to finish America's prime-time tradition. ? ? "Watching sim-u-lated football...is where I want to be, tonight they'll make history.." ? ? Screen transitions to primetime announcers, Jaws hanging open. The broadcast quickly cuts to commercial. :tophat:
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Bork Björnsson usually isn’t one for dancing. One of the more “stoic” types, he typically doesn’t become animated or let his outgoing and goofy side show unless he is familiar with those around him. Only his teammates in the Yellowknife Wraith’s locker room have ever really seen his outgoing side.
When he arrived at the NSFLN studio to film the music video for the primetime games, Bork wasn’t able to follow anny of the directions barked at him by the director. “Toss the ball back and forth between your hands!” “Jump up and down like your excited!” “Can’t you just… cross your arms and look intimidate?” All of these seemingly basic commands Bork was unable to follow to the director’s liking. Growing slightly flustered, Bork told the director “I’m a football player, not an actor!” Finally, the director had an idea. You know those intense close ups where the player is in their helmet and the camera zoom is so close to their face that it’s a little uncomfortable and they’re just staring at the camera with their head tilted slightly downwards so they look a little intimating? That’s what he had Bork do. The entire shot shows up in the music video for about half a second. That’s it. Just a half a second shot of an extreme close up of a helmet-wearing Bork. (225 words)
"We want you to be in the primetime music video," the voice repeated.
"Uh, what?" Antoine Delacour blinked dumbly. "Doing... what...?" "Oh don't worry about that. You're a recognisable face, people know you. We just want you to you know, be there really." "Oh... right. Yeah I can do that." [div align=\\\"center\\\"]* * * * *[/div] "So over here?" Antoine shuffled over a little, and almost bumped into Darnell Turner. "Yo, D... what are we supposed to be doing here exactly? I don't really..." "Oh we just gotta look badass and whatnot. No big." Darnell made it sound easy. But it was kind of difficult to look badass and menacing when you're easily the smallest guy in the group of defensive players featuring in the video. He just resigned himself to it and as the camera panned over, he folded his arms and ... not quite glowered, but shot some sort of mildly frustrated expression. As the camera passed, Darnell nudged him and laughed "Dude, did the camera kick your dog or something?" Watching the video back later, Antoine realised what Darnell had meant. There was a sort of nonchalance about the stand that just... worked. Entirely unintentional. Probably benefited from being the little guy, standing in front of a bunch of bigger -- objectively scarier -- dudes. It's almost impossible not to look pretty badass when you have guys like Kurt Hendrix, Stephen Harrison, J.D. Boom and Erasmo Broadway standing right behind you. Convenient, really. While he stood admiring the shot, Stephen Harrison dropped a huge hand on to his shoulder. "Caw caw motherfuckers" he laughed. (261 words) I impersonate a programmer for a living
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Usually in the NSFL Primetime video, offensive players are highlighted first and foremost. That's how it is here as well, with offensive players scoring touchdowns and making crazy plays. But, defense is king as they say and so some defensive players are included as well and get to be in the video package.
My player will be shown in a one-on-one battle with a wide receiver, from the snap and the complete freedom of what his route might be, all the way fighting for positioning and following him step by step, as he makes his cuts. Finally, as the ball comes in our area, I make my move and cut into his lane and step in front of him, grabbing the ball away from him and making the interception. An easy pick by the look of things, but it took effort and concentration every second of the play. Once I have the ball, I am immediately looking downfield to see the best route to take to improve field position and maybe even score a touchdown. I make one defender miss and I move downfield... it cuts away to the next player's highlight. Did I get the touchdown? Who knows, but you need to watch NSFL Primtime to find out!
"It's all planned out," the man snaps at me and the smorgasbord of NSFL players gathered around me. My part of the video was simple, but went before it was complex. There were a few scenes at the beginning which I wasn't part of, then Chris Orosz would walk onto the stage and say, "Welcome to NSFL Primetime!" He then tossed a football to RB Bubba Nuck, who traced through an aisle until he stiff-armed a camera man.
This was my cue. The camera was not attached to the pole, so of course it came off when Nuck jabbed it with his arm. Fox North then leaped out of the shadows and caught the camera. I was then to appear next to him, and, well, look like we were best friends (it wasn't hard) while the camera panned over to some other Liberty players, including Omar Wright and Lincoln Jefferson. "Standby cameras, standby lights, cue!" On our first try, the camera had been accidentally attached to its tripod. Bubba Nuck stiff-armed the pole and nothing happened. Fox North then leaped out of the wings and tried to catch nothing. I prevented him from taking a hard landing. "CUT!" the director screamed. This was going to be a looong night. Code: 209 |
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