Hey there. The more I think about what your wanting, the more I would love to help. I have some experience in the filming industry. In fact even KISTech and I have spoke a lot back and forth about film editing in general.
First thing you need is a script. Without that, this will never get anywhere. It must be written down in a kind of "Play" mode so that the actors can read their lines easier. This is known as a
Screenplay.
Once the script has been approved then the next step is to get your crew together who can work with you. You need people for specific areas of expertise. Since this is a software based visual movie, you'll need the main programmer to work with and lead other programmers. You'll need a 3D modeler. You'll need plenty of them around too. This will be your biggest hurdle. 3D Modelers are not always the easiest folks to work with because they tend to do what they want, and not what your wanting. So you have to be diligent.
Musicians and Sound effects people are easy to find.
When it comes to Voice acting, you can have everyone act out their lines. Kind of a rough draft. This will help you get the ball rolling and will help the programmer out to know where the lines are and who should be where. Then you can come back and have the actors watch the animation and re-act out their parts.
The
Production Sound Mixer can work out any flaws.
The reason for all of this planning is because your doing this over the net obviously. Unless you have some folks who you can physically interact with, then your better off that way. Over the net movie making is not an easy task.
If your wanting to be hard core about this here are some positions that will need to be filled for your movie production.
The
Director is primarily responsible for the storytelling, creative decisions and acting of the film.
You will not need an
Assistant Director (AD) since this is over the net.
The
Casting Director finds actors to fill the parts in the script. This normally requires that actors audition for the part.
A
Production Manager could be needed if there is any kind of costs that need to be managed.
The
Director of Audiography (DoA) is the audiographer who supervises the audiography of the entire film. Basically, they need to make sure the music and sound effects flow throughout the film. This is important.
The
Production Sound Mixer is the head of the sound department during the production stage of filmmaking. They record and mix the audio on set - dialogue, presence and sound effects in mono and ambience in stereo. They work with other department heads such as the DoA.
The
Sound Designer creates the aural conception of the film, working with the supervising sound editor. On some productions the sound designer plays the role of a director of audiography.
The
Composer creates new music for the film. They usually wait until after the film is made however.
The
Production Designer creates the visual conception of the film, working with the art director.
The
Art Director manages the art department, which can help you with the collection or creation of textures and other visual aids.
The
Storyboard Artist creates visual images to help the director and production designer communicate their ideas to the production team. Basically, rough pictures are drawn to show others the flow of the film. Each Scene is drawn. You will need a lot of these drawn scenes to convay the vision of your story that your wanting to get across to all the departments.
The
Choreographer can help you make sure the characters are animating well. This is not really needed, but if the person in this position is good, it could help
Also, making this software to run the whole entire length of your film could be a bad idea. Remember, there is TONS of scenes in any film. So you'll need to create each scene seperate, run it while using fraps, so that you can record it. And it helps you in the long run when you need to edit a scene, you just edit the particular program. The reason you would not want to run the whole entire scene as well is because your going to want this to run in the best resolution you can get and then shrink it down. The Hard Drive Space alone will eat you alive. Not to mention the computer resources it takes just to edit film. So the smaller chunks that you have as editable the easier and faster you can get the film out there. So its best to take this in steps. You can then use a movie editor and splice them and the sound together. I have had practice with movie making using a game to make the movie in. In fact, Minecraft is a game where I did such a thing for fun for a little while. There is all kinds of this stuff all over youtube.
I hope this info helps. If I can be any further assistance, please let me know. I would love to know more of your ideas.
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