@Riot, Cinematic Idea

Support Boyyy·9/17/2017, 5:28:52 AM·1 votes·330 views

This is just a cinematic idea I came up with to honor support players.

*The screen starts off black with "We are survivors" in bold white, before fading out into the view of a shallow riverbed, the water a dark blue.

*For the first 15 seconds, with the camera still focused on the riverbed, we can hear the clashing of metal, banging of axes, and the casting of spells, until a person drops to their knees into the river, the camera so low that we only see their legs.

*Over the next 15 seconds, the camera pans up as the the sound of fighting is slowly muffled, showing us the body that fell knee deep into the river, her body covered in cuts and blood, until it finally reachers her face revealing it to be Janna. At the end of this 15 second interval it will flash "We are selfless" in bold white letters

*Over the next 30 seconds, we see Janna crawl through the river, her staff in hand, as the camera shows multiple angles and distances. The water has turned red with blood, and in the background we can see her teammates Lux, Ashe, Tryndamere, and Lee Sin fighting off the enemy team, consisting of Katarina, Miss Fortune, Wukong, Thresh, and Nidalee. It's made obvious that her team is losing. The camera will still overall be focused on Janna. At end of this 30 seconds, it flashes "We are strong" in bold white.

*In the next 20 second interval, after finally getting to her desired position, Janna slowly lifts herself up, and after finally getting to her feet, the camera focuses directly on her face the very second she casts her ultimate, the camera quickly distancing itself from Janna as to get a full view of the battle, and watch as the enemies are thrown.

*During the final 25 seconds, we see Janna float over to Lux, whose only just now recovering, and helping her to her feet, both woman sharing a small smile. The camera panning to a frontal view as to allow a visual of a full line up of Janna's team, they turn their attention back to the battle, Janna elevates herself into the air, watching as the rest of her team rushes back into the fray, all of them completely healed. During the last 5 seconds as it fades back to black, it flashes "We are supports" as we hear the war cries of Janna and her team.

The inspiration for this idea came mostly from the old cinematics, actually. Watching them, I couldn't help but notice how the only time a support was shown was Morgana in the very first, and then Zyra and Leona in A New Dawn. Even then they weren't really ever shown actually supporting their team, Morgana knocking around Kayle and Zyra preparing to kill Ahri herself, with the only act of actually supporting coming from Leona when she took an axe for Ahri. More importantly however, I realized how little attention Enchanters receive, as none of them have appeared in a cinematic and very rarely are they even shown in official artwork. The only pieces that have an Enchanter are a poster of Janna from the store and Soraka healing her team in a different work. My reason for choosing Janna as the main focus was for two reasons. One, I love her. Two, it seemed only fitting for the first Enchanter to be seen in a cinematic to be one of the original 40 champions and Janna was the first to come to mind.

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