Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Talion and Celebrimbor have crafted a new ring of power to defeat Sauron, but they must first gather their army. This is the story of the game Middle Earth: Shadow of War, edited into a movie. This video has been optimized to look the best in HDR for devices that support that, but I have put in the work to make sure it looks great in SDR as well.
If you aren't familiar with my work, my goal is to take a game's story, and edit it into a format where anybody can enjoy and understand the story, whether they play games or not. For those who have played the game, I find that rewatching the story in this more compact form can add a lot to the experience, because the full story will stay more fresh in your mind the entire time, rather than being split across several gameplay sessions filled with a lot of moments that aren't entirely crucial to the story. Then obviously, for those who don't play games, I'm bringing them a story they might not have ever been able to experience otherwise.
Because I want this to feel as close to a real movie experience as possible, I try to remove as many gameplay distractions as I can. Thankfully, this game has a no HUD mode, which allows me to disable just about everything that appears on screen. In most movies in the past, I've needed to use some VFX to remove some of the HUD elements that are left, but in this case, I didn't need any of that. However, in this movie I've also edited the footage to fit an ultrawide aspect ratio. In order to do that, I'm acting as a virtual camera man, animating the camera up and down throughout every single shot of the movie, often times requiring dozens of animation keyframes for longer shots.
Chapters:
0:00:00 - Prologue
0:09:29 - Fellowship
0:17:54 - The Seeing Stone
0:24:30 - The Arena
0:31:10 - Before Dawn
0:36:51 - Shadows of the Past
0:40:25 - The Fall
0:48:46 - The Blade of Galadriel
0:57:14 - Ring of Power
1:07:16 - The Siege of Sharkhburz
1:14:51 - The Tower of Sorcery
1:23:04 - The Siege of Khargukôr
1:31:34 - Fire and Fury
1:41:18 - Gravewalkers
1:46:30 - The Siege of Ghâshgôr
1:55:43 - The Bright Lord
2:12:54 - The Shadow Wars
2:29:11 - Credits
If you want to support my work, liking, subscribing, commenting, and sharing are the easiest ways to do so, and Youtube Premium helps too, but I also have a Patreon which helps the most:
patreon.com/AndyGilleand
Every supporter will gain access to a blog post for each project that I update every day with details of what I did that day, and projections for when I expect the project to be done and be released. People who spend a bit more can gain access to full quality downloads of my movies, without all the compression youtube adds to them, and supporters at the highest tier can even gain access to see early cuts of my movie, as well as HDR downloads.
As always, if you've enjoyed this story, make sure to support the developers by buying the game if you can. While I try my best to represent the game's story, my movies are not a full game walkthrough. There are always plenty of aspects of a game my movies will never cover. In the case of Shadow of War, my movie actually only represents about half of all of the missions in the game, so there's still a lot to experience in the game that my movie doesn't cover.
#MiddleEarth #ShadowOfWar #LordOfTheRings #VideoGameMovie
Talion and Celebrimbor have crafted a new ring of power to defeat Sauron, but they must first gather their army. This is the story of the game Middle Earth: Shadow of War, edited into a movie. This video has been optimized to look the best in HDR for devices that support that, but I have put in the work to make sure it looks great in SDR as well.
If you aren't familiar with my work, my goal is to take a game's story, and edit it into a format where anybody can enjoy and understand the story, whether they play games or not. For those who have played the game, I find that rewatching the story in this more compact form can add a lot to the experience, because the full story will stay more fresh in your mind the entire time, rather than being split across several gameplay sessions filled with a lot of moments that aren't entirely crucial to the story. Then obviously, for those who don't play games, I'm bringing them a story they might not have ever been able to experience otherwise.
Because I want this to feel as close to a real movie experience as possible, I try to remove as many gameplay distractions as I can. Thankfully, this game has a no HUD mode, which allows me to disable just about everything that appears on screen. In most movies in the past, I've needed to use some VFX to remove some of the HUD elements that are left, but in this case, I didn't need any of that. However, in this movie I've also edited the footage to fit an ultrawide aspect ratio. In order to do that, I'm acting as a virtual camera man, animating the camera up and down throughout every single shot of the movie, often times requiring dozens of animation keyframes for longer shots.
Chapters:
0:00:00 - Prologue
0:09:29 - Fellowship
0:17:54 - The Seeing Stone
0:24:30 - The Arena
0:31:10 - Before Dawn
0:36:51 - Shadows of the Past
0:40:25 - The Fall
0:48:46 - The Blade of Galadriel
0:57:14 - Ring of Power
1:07:16 - The Siege of Sharkhburz
1:14:51 - The Tower of Sorcery
1:23:04 - The Siege of Khargukôr
1:31:34 - Fire and Fury
1:41:18 - Gravewalkers
1:46:30 - The Siege of Ghâshgôr
1:55:43 - The Bright Lord
2:12:54 - The Shadow Wars
2:29:11 - Credits
If you want to support my work, liking, subscribing, commenting, and sharing are the easiest ways to do so, and Youtube Premium helps too, but I also have a Patreon which helps the most:
patreon.com/AndyGilleand
Every supporter will gain access to a blog post for each project that I update every day with details of what I did that day, and projections for when I expect the project to be done and be released. People who spend a bit more can gain access to full quality downloads of my movies, without all the compression youtube adds to them, and supporters at the highest tier can even gain access to see early cuts of my movie, as well as HDR downloads.
As always, if you've enjoyed this story, make sure to support the developers by buying the game if you can. While I try my best to represent the game's story, my movies are not a full game walkthrough. There are always plenty of aspects of a game my movies will never cover. In the case of Shadow of War, my movie actually only represents about half of all of the missions in the game, so there's still a lot to experience in the game that my movie doesn't cover.
#MiddleEarth #ShadowOfWar #LordOfTheRings #VideoGameMovie
![Marvels Spider-man (The Movie) [HDR Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qB8A5ETZjEo/mqdefault.jpg "Marvels Spider-man (The Movie) [HDR Version]
Initially I had issues getting HDR to work, but after a lengthy session with Youtubes Creator Support, it is finally working! Enjoy :)
If this video doesnt look right for you, try the SDR version here:
https://youtu.be/RiNF2-8TCL4
Insomniacs critically acclaimed 2018 game, Marvels Spider-man, edited into a movie. Stay tuned during the credits for a special treat (but this is a Marvel movie so you knew that)
If youre unfamiliar with what I do, my goal is to try to translate the story of the games I like into movie format, making them enjoyable whether you have played the game or not, or even if you dont play video games at all. There are plenty of great stories out there that a lot of people wont see because they dont play video games, and I hope to make these movies in a way where anybody can fully understand and enjoy.
But even if you do play games, these movies offer an experience that can change the way you view the story as well. When playing the game, youll likely be splitting the story up into several different play sessions, so you probably wont remember all of the details of the story from start to end. While this movie may be too long for a single sitting for some people, its still likely to keep the story fresher in your mind than when playing the game. I always notice new things when working on and watching my movies.
Unlike some channels, I dont just slap together all of the cutscenes and call it a day. Doing that simply wouldnt give you the full story, and this isnt just a compilation of scenes, its a full movie. I include whatever gameplay I feel is necessary to tell the story, and do it in a way thats enjoyable. I will cut down wherever I can, but I wont cut down so much as to cause plot holes or confusion for the viewer, and I try to make sure my cuts maintain a good pacing as well.
Normally I usually also go the extra mile and try to remove on screen HUD elements, whether via game settings, editing, mods, or VFX. While there were a few settings which minimized the number of on screen elements visible in this game, there were still a LOT left over, and unfortunately the frequency, placement, and nature of the button prompts and other HUD elements simply made it impossible to remove. While there were a few small things I did here and there, most of the HUD remains intact in this one. Some suggested using letterbox to hide them, but I tried this too and it simply did not work. Things pop up all over the screen, the HUD moves around, and doing so would also eliminate verticality and block out spider-man a lot of the time. It just wouldnt be a good solution. So unfortunately I wasnt able to remove the HUD this time, but hopefully developers will offer more options in the future to make this more doable. I love the customizeability of Horizon Zero Dawn for example, or the full out No HUD mode in Uncharted 4 (hoping for the same in TLOU2)
Thank you for watching, and make sure to subscribe if you want to know when I upload more movies. If you want to support me further, I also have a Patreon as I mentioned earlier:
https://www.patreon.com/AndyGilleand
Every supporter gets access to near daily updates during the production of the movie, with estimates for movie length and release date given with every update. I also have higher tiers that allow for downloading the full quality versions of my movies, HDR downloads, and even early access to an earlier cut of my movies while Im still working on them.
#Marvel #SpiderMan #VideoGameMovie")
