Movie: "Operation Pedestal: Convoy To Malta" - starring EAF members!

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My movie for the War Thunder video competition is finally finished!

Now I can finally relax, after having remade it twice due to an update in the middle of the production. :rolleyes:

The “second” movie I started re-doing on Tuesday. Due to the very little time left, I did nothing else but eat, “shoot the film” (and “miss” a lot), record scenes (and re-take them a lot) and finally combine the story out of some 380 separate files of raw footage. Sleep not included! :roflmao:

Well here it is ladies and gents…

[video=youtube_share;cXltRlWuB8c]http://youtu.be/cXltRlWuB8c[/video]
Operation Pedestal: 11th August 1942
Fortress Malta is besieged. Desperate for food and fuel the relief convoy is within sight.
The Island’s population and their Defenders, have faced hardship together in a desperate time of survival against all odds.
If this convoy is sunk, Malta and the war in the Mediterranean will be lost.

The Convoy approaches Valletta, but it is far from a safe haven. Italian bombers are incoming in a last gasp attempt to sink the Convoy and crush the hopes of the Islanders.
Newly arrived Spitfire Vbs of No. 126 Squadron RAF, scramble “their few” to meet them. No. 248 Squadron RAF scramble the last of their Beaufighters in support.

Already above them a frantic struggle is unfolding as Spitfires prepare for yet another 109 onslaught.
Though the enemy may be better trained and greater in number, the RAF will not accept defeat, at any cost. The unspoken eternal truth that many will die and friends will be lost is the burden that must be borne.

Music by Adrian von Ziegler:
Nevermore
Gleipnir
The Sylvans Path

Music by Trond Bjerknes:
Max Manus End Credits

Special thanks to the Pilots for making this movie possible:
awFirestarter
EAF19_Baz
EAF331_Apollo
EAF331_Stuntman
H3dsh0t

Special thanks to the Voice Actors:
EAF19_Charlie
EAF19_Baz
EAF331_Stuntman
EAF602_Joe90
H3dsh0t

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Nice one Stunt!

Let’s hope all goes well in the voting. Fingers crossed.

Now go and get some sleep :wink:

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Awesome. Much more exciting with all the chatter, you get more of a feel for the pilots :banana:

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Great…{ but for me, there wasn’t enough swearing lol }. Well done to all involved

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That’s Great!!

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Thanks chaps!

It was very enjoyable to make this movie. A healthy mix of motivating tension and a learning experience.

I didn’t win, nor did I become second or third, but I got a “special prize” for making a movie perhaps not literal to the subject: show battles between 109s and Spits.

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The winner is… Stuntman!!

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Ditto Chip, :banana: excellent movies and very exciting.

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Good job Stunt!
I liked the film very much. How can i see the winner?

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Thanks Chip! Swoop! Apollo! :banana:

These were the winners

1st place is still very good. It doesn’t have the complexity of my story, nor the full picture of Battle of Britain, but it sticks to the subject the closest: pure spit vs 109 dogfighting. So I guess it won because of it being more direct to the subject, instead of a more complex video such as mine.

2nd and 3rd is below par in my opinion and I’m surprised I was not given at least 3rd place.