You’ll have to forgive me, I’d forgotten to post this one up. The guys behind the upcoming British Alien fanfilm, Aliens Epilogue, released a new trailer a month and a bit back. You can find out more at their website and their Facebook page. You can also find out more about the project in our next podcast episode later this week.
Aliens Epilogue Trailer from Darren Kemp on Vimeo.
outstanding work!
Also, another thing I have to say is that if anyone remembers the fan film "S.E.E.D" a while back then they have to remember that its sound was absolutely awful, at least the version that I saw. Some of the characters were completely inaudible/incomprehensible. This was much better, much more consistent. I think there was still kind of a lack of foley recording and there should've been ADR, but it still sounded miles better than S.E.E.D, which constantly patted itself on the back for being of professional quality.
Great job to the filmmakers and congratulations on the release!
Just great. Glad this has finally been released. This deserves a spot on the newsfeed.
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Did I mention how much I love you?
All the shots are now completed. We are waiting on one piece of music and are hoping to have the finished film uploaded and available to watch by next weekend.
@Predwars. Yes, I'm aware. Congratulations on your efforts.
Cheers
Darren
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GIVE IT TO ME NOW.
OH MY FRIGGING GOD YES.
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Other cool pictures on the Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aliens-Epilogue/352696661466
"More talent required for Aliens Epilogue production. We are looking for people to light and animate models that have already been made by Andrew Glazebrook and SanchiEsp for the production. You can see the models in the CGI design section on our website at Aliensepilogue.com. We need people using 3DS Max 2010 or later. This is a no pay gig but you get to be part of the production and will be invited to the Premier at the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK."
If anyone is interested you can contact Darren via the website, Facebook or our forums.
http://www.aliensepilogue.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aliens-Epilogue/352696661466
I would definitely agree with that.
Email it via contact@aliensepilogue.com or simply message me on here.
Cheers
Darren
As far as fan films go AVP: Redemption is among the best.
Would we email it to you?
This was the camera I was thinking about I'm sure. I'm a bit of a fighting game fan and there's a bunch of guy's called Thousand Pounds Production who made some funny combo video's. They obviously do other projects also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Sm444_zOw#ws
It's amazing the crap you can film and make it look good with good gear and some well timed slow mo!
Like you said though, re-shooting everything would be a real pain. I'm still looking forward to watching it!
This can really make a difference to the final production. Please keep us in the loop about your star wars FF as well!
I know exactly how you feel. I've been trying to finish a Star Wars fan film for years that was shot on miniDV. It wasn't so much the format it was shot on, but the camera angles the director and DP used. Some of it was restricted due to extensive green screen use (ie. you can't use a low angle and shoot up because the green screen wasn't high enough. nor could you shoot down on a subject because what was used for the floor was a green sheet that was badly lit and wrinkled making compositing excrutiating).
However the location stuff was often shot in the same unexciting fashion. And a lot of fan films fall into the same trap. There's so much to think about for so few people, that cinematography often gets left off as long as what is captured is in focus.
I found colour correcting can make things a bit more dramatic, and is relatively simple. I changed a bunch of scenes to a red tint to simulate emergency lighting which worked quite nicely.
That is a nice simple answer
Cheers
Darren
Nice to see the trailer is generating discussion
To respond to some of the comments about the "look" of the footage.
The film was shot in standard definition on mini DV.
As many of you will no doubt know, this is hardly ideal. However, when production began this was all that was available to us.
Then came the almost overnight revolution of DSLR cameras. If we were beginning this now, we would no doubt choose to use something like a Canon7d or similar but it simply wasn't an option back when we started.
As a result we haven't achieved the cinematic look that we'd all like too see since mini DV doesn't lend itself to colour correction particularly well and the camera didn't allow for depth of field which would also have helped achieve a better look.
Money being no object, we would have hired a different camera but unfortunately money is always a definite object lol.
That said, if we were ever to film something else along these lines we would definitely go with a better camera now since you can hire them pretty cheaply or even to buy one now isn't ridiculously expensive. But it wouldn't have made sense to switch to a DSLR part way through production as the footage would have been so different from the early stuff that we'd have had to refilm everything and that simply wasn't an option.
Constructive criticism is welcome and helpful. I'm hopeful that when released people will enjoy it for what it is. Although I realise that you can never please everybody.
All the guys that worked on this have put a lot of time and effort into it and we've all learnt a lot during the process. If we were to refilm everything and start again now, would it be better, certainly. But of course that's not going to happen. They'd all probably kill me if I said I wanted to reshoot the whole thing lol.
I personally have gained a lot of experience from this and will use that to make our next film even better.
Cheers
Darren
I think it's the style of camera used that's giving it the off look also. It's got that cheap ass "doctor who" feel about it.
Regardless , props to the guy's involved, it's still impressive.
Yeah, i think if they would have spent some of the cash they have, if they did have cash, on a better camera this would have been perfect because everything else is great. Some of the guns looked small but bleh, the rest was pretty good.
The queen laid it. Simplest explanation will suffice, rather than bizarre Spunkmeyer/Bishop/Newt put it there in that atypical position due to overcomplicated plot reasons which require countless paragraphs to explain.
Oops. Can of worms.
It's set between Aliens and A3. Is supposed to answer some questions from A3 about the egg. Is due to release some point later this year. They're aiming for premiere at a Sci-Fi event in Leicester. Will be more info in the next podcast.
This. That quick shot of the alien through the grating was boss, though.
I thought that WY Commando in the trailer looked great, Looking forward to more news on this.