They'd be a lot easier to write off as nut jobs if they hadn't already crafted some really cool props, like the Warthog-in-progress you can see above. Here's hoping the lawyers don't inevitably crush their dreams.
[Thanks, Dylan]
They'd be a lot easier to write off as nut jobs if they hadn't already crafted some really cool props, like the Warthog-in-progress you can see above. Here's hoping the lawyers don't inevitably crush their dreams.
[Thanks, Dylan]
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 6:31PM The Blank Mage Returns said
Or maybe they couldn't find a junk car from America, and had to make do.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 6:29PM Jae Brav said
You know I hate to say it but I think that an indie movie would probably be better than a big studio production.
Most indie movies are forged from passion for the art or are passionate about what the movie is about so you have directors putting their heart into it, while hollywood pimps a franchise for the money.
Maybe someone educated in film that would pour his soul into the movie should handle it. Just my two cents.
Most indie movies are forged from passion for the art or are passionate about what the movie is about so you have directors putting their heart into it, while hollywood pimps a franchise for the money.
Maybe someone educated in film that would pour his soul into the movie should handle it. Just my two cents.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 6:30PM oOWallaceOo said
I am currently in the process of filming a Live-Action short of Sonic The Hedgehog.
I've already caught a Hedgehog and Fox, grafted a second tail on the fox with a stappler, ripped off the hands of my sister's Minnie Mouse plushies and stuck them on the Hedgehog and Fox's front paws and have stuck a red moustache on an egg.
Unfortunately, I have already exceeded my budget and the bank won't let me have anymore money. I am looking for someone to donate $5 for blue spraypaint so I can start shooting tomorrow morning and finish at lunch
I've already caught a Hedgehog and Fox, grafted a second tail on the fox with a stappler, ripped off the hands of my sister's Minnie Mouse plushies and stuck them on the Hedgehog and Fox's front paws and have stuck a red moustache on an egg.
Unfortunately, I have already exceeded my budget and the bank won't let me have anymore money. I am looking for someone to donate $5 for blue spraypaint so I can start shooting tomorrow morning and finish at lunch
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 6:46PM lonecow said
I think Halo fans need to adopted the moniker: Fanhalos.
Pronounced like Fanilow for Barry Manilow fans.
Pronounced like Fanilow for Barry Manilow fans.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 6:58PM lagomorph said
I wish all this time, effort and heart went into original works instead of existing properties with tricky copyright issues. I feel like the trend of fan made movies is dishonest. It's so much easier to make something that people are already predisposed to want than to come up with something new and have to create the need within others.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 7:10PM lagomorph said
Then again this http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/ was pretty decent work.
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 7:01PM (Unverified) said
i'm sorry, am I the only one who thinks the mini-hog is super sweet? I'm gonna convert my honda civic to one of those bad boys.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 7:12PM (Unverified) said
This movie doesn't have Master Chief.
Operation Chastity takes place right after the Halo rings are blown up. It focuses on a group of marines who need to survive a mere 5 days for the war to be over, but this is exactly where the action begins.
Operation Chastity takes place right after the Halo rings are blown up. It focuses on a group of marines who need to survive a mere 5 days for the war to be over, but this is exactly where the action begins.
Posted: Aug 10th 2009 8:41PM D taktics said
Joystiq you do know Operation Chastity has been going on for a very long time now right?
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 12:39AM benheck said
Well assuming everyone is simply donating their free time, including volunteers to edit, do special FX, etc, $50,000, even half that, could go a long ways.
Labor is the real killer when it comes to costs, spray-painting wooden guns is pretty cheap. Their Warthog looks pretty far along and I'd imagine it's probably the most major prop.
The real issue facing a production like this is fatigue - without a set budget/contracts for completion, they'll get 80% of it filmed before people get tired, then the final 20% will take forever, ironically as seen with Peter Jackson's own "Bad Taste".
Labor is the real killer when it comes to costs, spray-painting wooden guns is pretty cheap. Their Warthog looks pretty far along and I'd imagine it's probably the most major prop.
The real issue facing a production like this is fatigue - without a set budget/contracts for completion, they'll get 80% of it filmed before people get tired, then the final 20% will take forever, ironically as seen with Peter Jackson's own "Bad Taste".
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 9:07AM (Unverified) said
clerks was a B/W movie with a cast of maybe a dozen people, with no SFX whatsoever. and i didn't say it couldnt be done, i just said that it wouldn't be a very good one, lol.
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 3:15PM (Unverified) said
Reply fail! Gee, who would have thought you were lacking the brain cells....
Tell ya what. Look up "Batman:Dead End", it's another fan made short, from about 5 years ago, that was made for $10k, and tell me you can't have special effects-since they managed not only to do a proper looking Batman flick, but have Aliens and Predators in it too. Sure, it's crap, but it is another fine example of "shut your stupid mouth because you don't know what you think you're talking about".
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Tell ya what. Look up "Batman:Dead End", it's another fan made short, from about 5 years ago, that was made for $10k, and tell me you can't have special effects-since they managed not only to do a proper looking Batman flick, but have Aliens and Predators in it too. Sure, it's crap, but it is another fine example of "shut your stupid mouth because you don't know what you think you're talking about".
Posted: Aug 11th 2009 5:33PM (Unverified) said
"Sure, it's crap....." so the fact that it was crap matters not to you right? ok i'm wrong, you're right, most halo fans are too blind by the own fanaticism that anything that has halo splashed over it would be hailed as an excellent piece of film making..
Posted: Aug 17th 2009 5:19AM (Unverified) said
Just did an interview with the guy behind Operation Chastity and also got some great art work from the film they are proposing on making. Looks fantastic: http://www.wired.co.uk/photos/wired-things/2009-08/01/operation-chastity---the-halo-fan-film.aspx
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