Official Speedrun Documentary, Need 1 runner/backup from each country, post if interested to be interviewed
8 years ago

Those who wish to be interviewed please post "I would like to be interviewed" or something of that nature and post the game + category you would like to talk about and also if you have a working microphone and or a working camera.

Title - “This Is The Run”

Length: 56-80 minutes

Subject: Speedrunning Documentary

Focus

1.Speedruns+categories

2.Glitch hunting

3.High end gameplay

4.Optimizations/routing

5.The community

6.Individual runner interviews - 1 primary and 1 secondary to act as a backup if the primary is unable to attend the recording session (USA is the exception with 2 primaries)

  1. Different assortments of information + video clips to include the runners speedrun

Individual Runner Countries and Participants + Questions

1.Each runner will start with a greeting (and if possible a fun/respectable hand gesture) in their native/primary language

2.What game and category do you speedrun?

3.Why do you speedrun _/why is your favorite game to speedrun?

4.What got you into speedrunning/why do you like it?

5.What do you like or think is unique about the speedrunning community?

Special Interview Questions (ie: glitch hunters)

1.What got you into ?

2.Why do you enjoy ?

3.What do you like or think is unique about the speedrunning community?

Each runner must discuss a different game (this means if Zelda OoT has already been selected you must chose another game or forfeit your interviewee spot) for as short as 30 seconds and no longer than 2 minutes. Each runner should preferably speak the native language of their country (with translations) however this is not a requirement. No duplicate games are allowed to provide the highest variety for the documentary and all categories and concepts must be covered by the end of the last country runner interview (CAM & MIC STRONGLY PREFERRED however, CAM is not a requirement) and this can include the following…

•Any%

•100%

•Glitchless

•Special Categories (ie: no special warps, 2 player 1 controller, blindfolded)

•Glitch Hunting (Lance_)

•Optimizations/smart routing

•Fun Tricks

•Endurance Speedrunning (marathons, 6+ hour runs)

Note: If certain categories and topics are not met, slots for already full countries will be opened up (ie: USA runners who want to talk about glitch hunting) and if any countries are not listed they will be added upon runners from a new country requesting to be interviewed, once a post is put on the forums I will be selecting runners until all slots are filled or until 1-2 weeks have passed and meanwhile for those selected early, I will begin scheduling interviews (via Skype/facetime, etc) with each primary meaning PLEASE LIST some sort of contact information on your initial post, I will update this post and or contact each runner individually to let them know they have been selected, those selected will have a run of their choice featured in the video/film.

Remember, the goal of this documentary is to represent speedrunning and the speedrunning community and all the amazing things that take place so diversity is key!

USA #1

1.BubblesDelFuego

2.BenevolentLife - Just Cause 3 (any%)

  1. Lance_ - Glitch Hunting & Crash Tag Team Racing Any%

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Secured Game List (no duplicate game discussions allowed)

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Covered Speedrunning Topics

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Tebt_W, Lance_ and 2 others like this
Vienna, Austria
  1. Please format everything a little bit more clear and don't use a hole space between every sentence, since this will make the sentences appear to not connect to each other (basic formatting rules ...).
  2. Don't post placeholders in the Data. It's useless and spams a lot, especially with your weird formatting.
  3. Put the Data into a Table (Google Table for example), since a post isn't meant and designed to hold that much of data in it.
  4. You shouldn't make the apply form in here (Apply by post), you should use a Online Form for that (Google Form for example), since it'd simply spam the entire thread/forums with submissions.
  5. What do you want to do exactly?? This is mostly a way to big apply form isn't it? If so, then describe that more clear and also tell us what you are doing. All I can read here is way to much data, placeholders and s kind of schedule.

Things that would be neat to know:

  1. Host of that Show if it isn't you
  2. Where is it getting showed (Only Live on Twitch, YT, ...) + Examples/earlier episodes so people can tell if they want to be part of it. Just a brief example, not everything, otherwise it'd be a huge ad you know.
  3. What are the topics and how are the guests in this show? Are they like in "TheFinalSplit" in there the entire time, or only for their "part" of the show?

If you follow all of that, I'm pretty sure more people will more likely to take a look at it and send submissions.

EDIT: Didn't see it was ONE huge doc instead of episodes. So some advice might not apply very well then.

South Carolina, USA

Is this related to this:

If so, awesome! If not, might want to think of a different title :/

BnH247 and Trollbear666 like this

@DarkerStix Yes, it is related to the video you linked, the title was just put there so people would be familiar with the concept, title can easily be changed.

@Racingmonster Yeah, I just put entries for every flag I saw who submitted runs and what not so that could be true.

@PreFiXAUT I pasted this from a google doc and threw this out there just to see if there was any open interest, hopefully that answers most of your questions because otherwise I have a plan B & C with how to direct this short film and will reach out to select individuals instead. I also didn't see an issue with having people post here since I saw some threads with 100's of replies but I see your point.

The purpose of this information being pasted here was to give more details rather than just saying I need some people to interview, the only thing I need from this forum is responses of if people would be interested and prior to even doing this there was plenty of people who were however, I thought it would be much more endearing to the world to get runners from as many countries as possible so that this documentary would have a higher inspirational level. If I wasn't clear it's not episodes it's one short film/video 56-80 minutes long (most likely toward the short side with lack of interest in runners) being submitted to many platforms ie: youtube, netflix, hulu and anywhere else I can think of as me and several individuals discussed those details already. As for the host thing, the original direction of the video was going to have narration from all the runners and then myself in the filler moments, now it might lean toward most runners but more narration from myself, we shall see.

Ohio, USA

I would like to be interviewed. Name: Lance Main Focus: Glitch Hunter (I also speedrun though) Game+category: Crash Tag Team Racing Any%

Also will someone be asking me questions? Or will I need to have like a spread sheet of questions to answer?

{Edit} Well it looks like both USA spots are already taken. :/

{Edited Edit} Oh wait, I read more thoroughly, I'll talk about Glitch hunting if need still.

BnH247 likes this

@Lance_ You are good to be interviewed especially for discussing the glitch hunting section, add sk.bnh on skype and yes I wrote the primary questions I will be asking in my initial post, thank you for your time and interest :).

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Gelderland, Netherlands

Gelderland #23 is not a land, its a region of The Netherlands #26

@Trollbear666, LMS, all part of the plan :^).

Western Australia, Australia

I would like to be interviewed. I can talk about... um well. I guess maybe Mega Man X2 but I'm really rusty in that game.

Edited by the author 8 years ago
Ontario, Canada

I'd be happy to be interviewed for your documentary. My game is Crash Bandicoot 1 and I'm from Canada. I have a microphone, but no cam.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

In case that there is no German guy to take part here, I could do so.

My name is Hdot and I'm from Germany. Of my speedgames I'd like to talk about Digimon World 3. It's more of a rare speedrun and it fits the Endurance topic. (My WR is 7h22min right now.)

British Columbia, Canada

I'm willing to partake in this interview, my video game is Glover on the Nintendo 64, of which I've put way too much time into. I'd be reppin Canada, without a camera but WITH a mic!!!

ps i'm a known glitch/route finding pro, with many hot speedtech glitches and routes to my name. truly ONE of a kind

Edited by the author 7 years ago
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United States

I'm in usa, but I live in maryland as well so maybe if you wanted some sort of IRL meetup kinda thing, I'd be down :P I can do Doom/2 and Mega Man X6.

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@Racingmonster

This is like: "Ok, this is going too far... You runners need to play just a little less and read some more about geography" LOL xD

England

@WeaponLord - This thread is 4 months dead. Please don't necro-post.

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@Ozotuh

I'm sorry. I can delete my posts if you wish.

But, what about the documentary? Is it really going to happen?

Edited by the author 7 years ago

This is a wonderful project! You got my support!