30 Day Free Trial

By the end of today (31st March 2010), all new downloads of Moviestorm will require users to sign-up to a 30-Day Free Trial Membership. This will allow us to better serve our paying users, whilst giving all our new users the opportunity to trial a more extensive Moviestorm experience as a subscriber for 30 days.

All current users of free Moviestorm (1.2) will be unaffected by this change.

The new 30-Day Free Trial Membership offer is valid for users registering for credit or debit card purchases only. Credit or debit cards are not charged until after the free trial period expires.

A Moviestorm subscription will cost US$7.99/GB£4.99/€6.49 per month after the Free Trial ends. Credit or debit card purchases for the subscription plan chosen will auto-renew unless canceled. You may cancel at any time.

This offer is void where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law.

Stock sets, and where to find them

Moviestorm includes over 60 stock sets. They’re all customisable, so you can either use them exactly as they are or use them as a starting point for your own unique locations.

• Base
  Daytime Garden, Daytime Retail, Daytime Suburbia, London Loft, Modern Lounge, Night time Retail, Night time Suburbia, Park Theatre, Reading Room, Small Band Venue, Surreal B&W, Surreal Colour
• Bedroom Blog
  Bedroom Blog, Girl’s Bedroom, Teen Bedroom
• Coffee Shop
  Coffeeshop 1, Coffeeshop 2
• Domestic Drama - Living Rooms
  Living Room 1, Living Room 2
• Domestic Drama - Bedrooms
  Bedroom 1, Boy’s Bedroom, Girl’s Bedroom
• Foliage
  Back Garden, Park Clearing, The Maze
• Fun Land
  Funland
• Garden Features
  Stone Clearing, Urban Park
• General Cars
  Auto Bargains
• Happy Holidays
  Christmas Living Room, Festive Party, Holiday Living Room, Snowy Mountain, Snowy Suburbia
• Law and Order
  Police Cell, Police Station Reception
• R&B and Dance Music Video
  Nightclub 1, Nightclub 2, Recording Studio
• Rock and Indie Music Video
  Jamming Lounge, Live Rock, Musician’s Lounge
• Open Mic
  Comedy Lounge, Comedy Set, Small Comedy Club
• Sci-Fi
  Spaceship 1, Spaceship 2
• Song Contest
  Dome Pop Set, Fire set, Moviestorm Song Idol
• Special Effects
  Burning Alley, Firework Display
• Street Dressing
  Bus Stop
• Town Buildings
  Town Street
• US Election
  Oval Office, Political Podiums, Press Room, TV Debate Studio

Stars & Storm competition

Although most of our users are English-speaking, Moviestorm is picking up in many other parts of the world. We’re really pleased that the French-speaking community has launched this fabulous competition.  It’s open to anyone, not just French speakers, as long as any dialogue is in French or subtitled in French.  (More details in English below.)

The Movies FR, la communauté francophone pour Moviestorm remercie Moviestorm pour son partenariat dans les cadeaux offerts aux gagnants du Palmarès des 20:) (ou P20), la célébration annuelle du site qui consacre les 20 meilleurs réalisateurs francophones de l’année écoulée sur MS et TM. Les résultats sont disponibles sous la forme de 3 shows vidéo sur Vimeo.

Nous attendons avec grand plaisir les participations des rélisateurs francophones à nos festivals tout au long de l’année permettant la sélection à ce P20 sur notre site : http://www.themovies.fr

Rendez-vous aussi sur le topic officiel du site sur le forum pour de plus amples informations et échanges.

You have until August 31 to submit your film. The rules and scoring system are quite sophisticated: you get bonus scores for including certain props and words. What’s more, when you sign up to the competition, they’ll either give you 500 Moviestorm points to spend on content packs or you can get an additional bonus. Check the forum for full contest rules.

We’ve donated them a load of points as prizes:

Winner : 10,000 MS points
2nd place : 6,000 MS points
3rd, 4th & 5th place : 2,500 MS points each
6th, 7th & 8th place : 1.500 MS points each

Best of luck, everyone!

Moviestorm Live - instant free video greetings

Moviestorm Live is the perfect way to make your very first movie. There’s nothing at all to download, it only takes a few minutes, and it’s absolutely free.

In 2009, we gave you two styles of instant movie: Photostorm Live builds your Facebook photos into a customisable movie, and Greetingstorm Live puts your face (or a friend’s face) onto a character’s head in a movie.  We’ve now combined the two into a single easy-to-use Facebook app, and added in many more new instant videos, covering birthdays, engagements, and weddings. It’s a great and unique way to preserve those memories and share them with your friends, or to send a fun birthday greeting to a youngster anywhere in the world.  It’s so easy, even your mum can do it!

Will you?

And with this ring…

Happy birthday!

Once you’ve seen for yourself just how easy it can be to make a movie, you can take it to the next level with the full versions of Photostorm and Greetingstorm. They’re free too. Just download Moviestorm (yes, that’s free too!), hit Get More Content when it starts up, and grab the free expansion packs.