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Doctor Who: The Ten Doctors (Released)

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http://orangecow.org/videos/10doctors1.divx

He’s back … each and every one of him.

Starring David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, and William Hartnell as The Doctor.

Someone is meddling with the fabric of space and time. The Doctor’s time stream has folded back on itself, and he is surprised to find himself face to face with his previous incarnations.

Rose has met a mysterious man claiming to be The Doctor, who takes her back to our dimension. Meanwhile, the Ninth Doctor must travel back in time to meet his first incarnation to find a solution to this problem. As our world faces total destruction, Captain Jack teams up with the second and third Doctors, and … well, it’s all just a big mess.

I did this for fun last night, and it actually didn’t take that long. I think I’ll keep adding to it over time.

Yes, for those playing along at home, the idea is to make a trailer in which all the various incarnations of Doctor Who (and companions) interact.

Doctors 4, 5 and 6 are severely underrepresented in this trailer, I know … technically they’re in there (voice or image). I’ll get round to them. The thing is, I don’t really own any classic Doctor Who on DVD; I have to rent it. I had rented the Paul McGann movie, and I decided to give it a try, but I only had Eccleston and McGann in DVD quality … anything else I had to get from rather poor quality AVIs. (Even David Tennant, who I don’t have on DVD yet - if anyone can oblige there let me know).

So this is just one night’s work. I’ll rent a few stories from the classic Doctors and add more shots.

I haven’t even used anything from The Five Doctors yet.

If you’d like to play along at home (because this is a lot of fun to do, creating these shots), I’m doing them in PAL, 740x576 anamorphic widescreen, using the PhotoJPEG codec (I’m using Final Cut Pro, myself). Feel free to create your own shots and submit them for this project.

As you can tell from this trailer, the easiest shots to join together are those where The Doctor is on a solid background, usually black. If you can composite him out with Chromakey, you’ve got a shot.

I’m very grateful to Babel Fish’s colorized versions of scenes from the Hartnell and Troughton years. I’m surprised I haven’t had to use anything in black and white yet.

Anyway, enjoy the trailer.

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Cool! Is it okay to show that around?
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Where were you in '77?

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Show away ....


I'm now uploading a slightly higher quality version of the trailer which fixes some interlacing issues which were in the first version.

I uploaded this to Youtube, but I'm not getting any sound. Grr.
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Sound seemed slightly out of sync in places, but anyway:

The Doctor is not half human.

Also, C3P0 was not built by Anakin Skywalker. And Peter Kay has never appeared in a Doctor Who episode.

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Howdy!

I began making my own version of The Ten Doctors in Janurary. It is currently at the length of an hour. I am not uploading the thing until it is complete.

A trailer is available at: www.startrekfanfilms.co.uk/Trailer.wmv

Please keep in mind that I made it for myself, just to get an idea of how I would do it. It is NOT my best work.

I shall keep you updated,

Dan
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>> Peter Kay has never appeared in a Doctor Who episode.

If only. That episode made me lose faith in the new production team.


TheFixer, your website isn't loading, nor your trailer.
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Unusual!

The file usually works. The site doesn't. I shall try and put it on my new server tonight.

Dan
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Are you making anymore of that!?

I just watched it, and it was fantastic!!!!

I'm considering cancelling my project now...


Dan
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I'd like to do some more Ten Doctors material, yeah .... I think that Doctors 4, 5 and 6 need some screen time in this one. I'm adding a lot of Classic Who to my Netflix and Nicheflix queue to play with.

I'm openly soliciting help if anyone else wants to try their hand at doing shots and bits.
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Check demonoid.
There's lots of great Dr. Who torrents there including DVD format.

David Tennant broadcasts are also there in DVD format if the torrents are still up.
If you can make do with smaller, absolutely go with anything from MadMartha, she(he?) is an absolute stickler for quality (and next season will be releasing full resolution x264 releases instead of Xvid). MM's torrents might be more active at their new home: http://tracker.reprobate.se/

Cheers on the stupid factor on this one.

Dr. M

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I don't have the disc space to blow on downloading full DVDs, sadly. Every bit of disc space I can spare results in me doing a new project. Hm.

I'd go with Netflix, but since these are PAL native, and I'm editing in PAL, PAL sources are best by far.




I was watching the crap musical version of The Producers tonight, and was shocked to see Captain Jack Harkness belt out "Springtime for Hitler" .... now THERE's material for a truly silly fan edit.
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If this could be made into a whole episode, this would be great!
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Check out Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) in De-Lovely too...

Dr. M

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I was wondering if you would like my help in making this. I can supply you with lots of episodes.
We could also work on the story together. Please email me at: dannochance@yahoo.co.uk


Thanks.

Dan
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Yeah, some help would be nice especially from PAL sources.

Here's the Youtube version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fko_UjGUxw


I saw De-Lovely before I saw Doctor Who 2005, and I do remember the tenor who sang "Night and Day" ... funny.



Does anyone have the "Destiny of the Doctors" video game trailer? It was on an old VHS release of the E-space trilogy. It has Anthony Ainley mocking all 7 classic Doctors.

There's a line in my trailer of Tom Baker summoning all the Doctors - I'd like some video to go with this. I need the Fourth Doctor looking forward into the camera and saying something urgent and pretty lengthy, preferably on a Tardis or generic background. Suggestions?
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I've created much more of this .... and I'm pleased to report that the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, is now part of the "cast." So are Sarah Jane Smith, K9, and the Daleks. I never intended the effects in this to be completely convincing (more slightly silly and in the vein of old Dr. Who), but I must say the shots are starting to get eerily realistic. Maybe it's just that certain actors look good together.



I downloaded a "Pantha" DVD of Doomsday and ironically it's worse quality than my AVI of the episode. Scary. Whoever did it captured it non-anamorphic, and then set it to anamorphic - so the image is stretched and tiny on the screen ... terrible. It did give me an episode of "Totally Doctor Who" which I'm using for evil purposes in this edit. Oh yes.
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My sources tell me the BBC has yet to actually broadcast Doctor Who in high def, so any anamorphic DVD (from broadcast) is artifical from the get go.

I believe they go HD next year.

Dr. M

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Here's a version of the trailer with Tom Baker in it ... a LOT of Tom Baker in it. (And Sarah Jane Smith.)

http://orangecow.org/videos/10doctors1.divx

Youtube version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBX5dNLAyI


I was working on a bunch more of the Fourth Doctor to put into this trailer, but the other classic Doctors are getting jealous. So I'll wait for a bit until I have some better footage at hand of the other classic Doctors.


There's a quick shot in there of Tom Baker and Liz Sladen with an added David Tennant walking .... it's very short, about 10 frames, and that's because I couldn't get the effect quite right with the crap source I was working with. I've done a better version now, so, uh, next time.
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Latest version.

http://orangecow.org/videos/10doctors1.divx

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK0rhDWdVeA


This one's a doozy ... much much much more complicated work. It's much longer, and EVERYONE is in it quite a bit ....

With the exception of poor Colin Baker, who for the time being is still "stuck in a time vortex."

You do HEAR Colin Baker in this (I gave him a nice long monologue as a sort of apology for his absence) ... and you see but don't hear David Tennant, so hmm.



There are a few minor errors in this that I'd have liked to fix ... green artifacts on a shot of 9/7/3 ... missing 2 audio ... motion on 10/Brig ... eyes on Rose on a couple shots ... and in fact, I did fix them, but they became unfixed.

The thing is, this version of the trailer has barely made it out for you to see. It got "stuck in a time vortex" itself.

I don't know what's wrong with Final Cut Pro, but I've spent the past day in computer hell (ironically while watching "Inferno" to pass the time) .... the file has gotten corrupted somehow (Final Cut Pro loves to do this to all my big projects eventually) ... it's decided to crash instantly when it opens. The file opens verrry slowly (several minutes, it takes), and then crashes immediately.

I got out a backup version, which was missing a few of the fixes named above. This version also crashes immediately.

However, it doesn't crash so quick that I couldn't export out a full quality video file of it .... after about 12 hours and a dozen tries ....

I'd like to make those little fixes again, but, well .... it crashes the second I click on or do anything.

I'll keep trying. Since I was able to export a full quality PhotoJPEG version, this won't stop me from making a version with Colin Baker in it .... the minute my Nicheflix copy of The Two Doctors arrives .... I've been waiting a week incidentally. Nicheflix is a bit of a scam, saying they'll send you two DVDs at once a la Netflix ... in reality as far as I can tell they lie and only send you one at a time, pretending the mail is simply slow while you're watching the other. Yep.

But that's inconsequential .... anyway ..... I'll keep at it.

It just crashed again while I was typing this .... after a single click. Yep.






ADDENDA: I think Eccleston and McCoy look strangely natural together .... rather like partners on a cop show.

There was supposed to be a lot more of The 2nd Master, but being a villain he's hard to randomly put into shots without explanation. I had another one of him and Tennant which seems to have vanished - he and Tennant look good together as Tennant seems more "on edge" than some others (although .... come to think of it ... Eccleston) ....

Both Romanas kept figuring in shots that "didn't work" too, so far.

There was also supposed to be more of Davison and Rose, and I'm sure there will be. She likes the young ones. Though for some reason I wound up pairing her with Pertwee toward the end .... the older Pertwee from The Five Doctors too. And that seemed to work, like her and Hartnell. I intend to use more of the slightly younger Pertwee (from his own episodes) - he and Troughton are ill-served by using their older selves from, say, The Five Doctors. But you do what you can.

There is a shot of David Tennant in black and white ... in the first trailer I'd intended to show Christopher Eccleston gradually turning black and white as he meets the First Doctor (all in black and white) ... but because I had colorized footage of Hartnell I didn't have to do that. Yet. So that little shot of Tennant is a reference to that.

There's a shot of Davison and Eccleston and in the background you can see some Earthshock-era Cybermen .... which is definitely a reference to the Fifth Doctor's particular connection to those particular baddies ....

Oh, and that's my voice at the end. I tried to do part of it as a Dalek impersonation, but it sounded a bit too silly, like a bad parody. So I just went with the cliche evil voice. I thought the trailer needed a main baddie even as a voice.


ADDENDUM ADDENDUM:

I wasn't able to retrieve any more data from my corrupted version of the trailer ... sad since there was a LOT of half-finished shots I was working on ....

But I was able to do some little fixes just using the PhotoJPEG version of the edited trailer which I retrieved ... fixing most of what I wanted to fix.

So I'm uploading that version as the DivX file now.
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Check out "Little Britain". Tom Baker narrates the show and has the most hilarious non-sequitors. Might be able to use one.
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This is an excerpt from the radio show 'Dead Ringers' here in the UK, where the impressionist Jon Culshaw (as Tom Baker) called up the real Tom Baker.


Pure Genius!
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I'm not a fan of Little Britain.



I've done more of this, but Final Cut Pro can't handle it - it just crashes instantly now whenever I do anything. So it's going to be very hard to complete this project the way I want to. Goddamnit.


At the very least I'll try to recover what I've done so far, which has some nice stuff including Colin Baker and all that.