Before I made this I really liked Randall Glass's Warthog Jump video, so I decided to check out his site. The first thing I noticed was that he made the flick on a Mac using iMovie so I knew that I could make a video like the Warthog Jump (because I have a Mac too, of course). Then I looked at the part where he described how he made the movie: all he did was record the Halo footage onto a VHS tape with his VCR, and then he hooked up his VCR to his Mac using some kind of thingy. And I had that thingy! It's called the Dazzle Hollywood DV-Bridge; my dad bought it a while back to convert old tapes into digital to put on the computer. So I just used that.

Now I had the means to make a Halo movie. I tried it out by recording some random gameplay and it worked. Naturally, I had to make an awesome movie with this new power. I don't remember how I got the idea for Halo: There and Back Again. All I can say is that I was really into Starcraft (still one of my favorites) and now I had Halo, so the two just merged into this one massless blob of an idea. Next, I sat down and listened to the mp3 of the Brood War intro over and over, and wrote down what scenes would go well with the different parts. I recorded it, edited it in iMovie, and had a hell of a time exporting because iMovie's compression sucks. But I finally got it done and submitted it to HBO. And that's the story of me first machinima.