Escape From City 17 - Part One (HALF-LIFE 2 Live action mov)
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PostPosted: Sun, 15th Feb 2009 22:24    Post subject: Escape From City 17 - Part One (HALF-LIFE 2 Live action mov)


*Tip* watch in high resolution , it will jump into Youtube Beta HD format HD 720p ..never knew youtube posted HD movies
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PostPosted: Sun, 15th Feb 2009 22:50    Post subject:
that was pretty cool, but where's the second ep that they say they've made?
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PostPosted: Sun, 15th Feb 2009 23:15    Post subject:
well f*ck me sideways, considering how it was made and the resources available. it was better than alot of hollywood 30million dollar movies.

ofcourse half of the goodness was *dramatic music* the crowbar
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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 00:52    Post subject:
$500 well spent... Smile


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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 07:11    Post subject:
tainted4ever wrote:
$500 well spent... Smile

where did it go though?
effects - free
actors - free
location - either it's free or they're retarded
costumes - if they used $500 on costumes, that's pretty wasteful
equipment - $500 could go easily, but they've done stuff earlier so presumably they reuse the camera and lights etc

looks damn good though
just wish they would have had a script
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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 07:26    Post subject:
Holy crap, this is impressive as hell.


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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 17:48    Post subject:
Frant wrote:
Holy crap, this is impressive as hell.


+1.
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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 20:58    Post subject:
shole wrote:
tainted4ever wrote:
$500 well spent... Smile

where did it go though?
effects - free
actors - free
location - either it's free or they're retarded
costumes - if they used $500 on costumes, that's pretty wasteful
equipment - $500 could go easily, but they've done stuff earlier so presumably they reuse the camera and lights etc

looks damn good though
just wish they would have had a script


Logistics? Costs for scouting locations to shoot? Equipment (camera/props/etc) damages? Possible rental fees for gear? $500 in terms of movie production is stupidly low.
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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 21:12    Post subject:
shole wrote:
tainted4ever wrote:
$500 well spent... Smile

where did it go though?
effects - free
actors - free
location - either it's free or they're retarded
costumes - if they used $500 on costumes, that's pretty wasteful
equipment - $500 could go easily, but they've done stuff earlier so presumably they reuse the camera and lights etc

looks damn good though
just wish they would have had a script


lolwut?

fx aren't free. you need a machine. you need software. you need time to do it.
free actors you get what you pay for
shooting guerilla you're risking EVERYTHING. So it's worth securing locations.
Costumes shows that they're cheap.
Equipment ie tapes/storage devices etc etc.

if you got axxs to equipment shooting guerilla is really idiotic.
if you got axxs to software and a machine to do it = yay

Seeing how it's done, shooting took no more than 2 days Sad [3 hour days]
Fx took a good week +
A sloppy week too. Sad

There are some flaws here and there and the awsum after fx twitch is KICK ASS
good ting tho the fx they used are free to download Razz

dominae, better safe than sorry. 500 budget means you're paying for tapes/transport/food/ and equipment rental.
Good cam costs 300 a day + a deposit.

Seriously, honestly, for true, anyone can shoot that if you know how. And with tutorials all over the web, you can make it look tons better. Laughing


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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 22:31    Post subject:
The funny thing about this is, that Valve supposedly try to make a Half-Life movie for years, and then some people come around with $500 and show them how it is done...
Too bad there won't be a real high budget movie like this...


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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 23:03    Post subject:
thank fuck. Very Happy Honestly, Bay should do a half life movie. Very Happy Or boll.


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PostPosted: Tue, 17th Feb 2009 23:45    Post subject:
WaldoJ wrote:
thank fuck. Very Happy Honestly, Bay should do a half life movie. Very Happy Or boll.

take that back. if something like this happens I'm gonna blame it on you
Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 02:57    Post subject:
damn first i thought what the **** this i so gay 4 sure cant be good , but the trailer rocks...
and the combines reminds me of the star wars storm troopers .
And the music is cool too but the half life sounds got me smiling hehe but thats ok^^
cool action kind of postapocalyptic damn cant wait for this movie.... but the guy with the mustache next to the asian guys wasnt gordon right ? lol


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 05:26    Post subject:
DarkPassenger wrote:
WaldoJ wrote:
thank fuck. Very Happy Honestly, Bay should do a half life movie. Very Happy Or boll.

take that back. if something like this happens I'm gonna blame it on you
Very Happy


well they could get the guy who did children of men do it Very Happy


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:02    Post subject:
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Seriously, honestly, for true, anyone can shoot that if you know how. And with tutorials all over the web, you can make it look tons better.

And yet others can't seem to do it better, esp. not for $500. Conceit?!


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:39    Post subject:
Lol. I was talking to a mate of mine and we can shoot it. Laughing
Sky replacement for clips = 2 hours per clip. More if you want to perfect it.
Actual shooting = 30 minutes.
Color correction = 30 minutes per clip.
Adding fx = 30 minutes per clip.

Add to those around 30 min for rendering per clip.

I got a pro production cam.
I got an edit suite.
I got axxs to a green room.

Thing is though, none of us have the time to shoot things like that.
We can only shoot things like that in our free time.

Those boys have a production house.
So they had time / equipment to do it.


If you know how to do something.
It doesn't take a lot of work. Just a lot of time.
A lot of people would rather rush than spend time doing something.

If you watch the vid you can even tell they shot some of it on the green screen and their lighting was off.

If they spend all that time exporting models and importing them to a clip. Even rotoscoping. And they fuck up on something basic like proper green screening. Like that's embarrassing. Sad

All they did was add tones to the colors. They had a location. They have equipment. And they have the facilities. Nobody with 500 can shoot it if they don't have axxs. It's at least 3000. You can add that to their budget with all the equipment they used. So it's 500$ if you have the equipment. 3500 if you don't.

Edit suites cost as little as 20$ an hour here. Sad


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:44    Post subject:
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Lol. I was talking to a mate of mine and we can shoot it.


Do it then and prove your words have substance. Otherwise you're just yapping about. Wink


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:47    Post subject:
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we can shoot it. Laughing


Sure you can, but it will be shit, and you will reinforce the impression of you as a bullshitter. Just don't do it and say you don't have time or make up some other excuse so you have some plausible deniability.
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:49    Post subject:
Lawl. You might have to wait months until I get a break to actually shoot something I want. I can however post a shitty ass music video i did eons ago Laughing we spent money on make up. did some nice fx. had 3 dops. It cost 90$ to shoot cause we had to hire a make up artist.

I'm serious. That video posted took then no more than an hour worth of dv tape. Since it wasn't even scripted and acting is already bad. Laughing maybe not even 30min of tape.


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:51    Post subject:
dominae wrote:
WaldoJ wrote:
we can shoot it. Laughing


Sure you can, but it will be shit, and you will reinforce the impression of you as a bullshitter. Just don't do it and say you don't have time or make up some other excuse so you have some plausible deniability.


It takes time to shoot shit like this. You can't get it done in 2 days. If combines were trolling the streets and the sky was red. Then yeah you can shoot it in 2 days and edit it easily. But that's not the case. So it does take actual time to edit it. Sad


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 08:58    Post subject:
Q is will we see a glimpse of El Gordo himself. Maybe something similar to opposing forces where you see him jump into the portal.
Looks cheesy at times but considering the budget and all this has great potential and will hopefully turn a few heads in hollywood aswell. You dont need a big budget to make nice action movies, just a burning passion for showing different ways of killing a person and some brain cells.


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 09:01    Post subject:
You just need the passion to do it.
You gotta love what you do.
And most importantly you need time to do it if it's coming out of your own pockets.

They can go far. They can do great things. But they shouldn't rely on FX alone. Because then they''ll fuck up.

Acer wrote:
Q is will we see a glimpse of El Gordo himself. Maybe something similar to opposing forces where you see him jump into the portal.
Chuck Norris gave up acting Sad


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 11:19    Post subject:
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It cost 90$ to shoot cause we had to hire a make up artist.

you can get them for free just goto the colleges where people are training to be a makeup artist the teachers encourage them to look for free work while they are still training.
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 12:56    Post subject:
WaldoJ wrote:
thank fuck. Very Happy Honestly, Bay should do a half life movie. Very Happy Or boll.


curse the day this post was made, holy fuck what the shit Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 13:27    Post subject:
what a load of crap this movies. me and my friend could do it in 5 minutes AND for $ 0.05. But unfortunately I don't have the time to do it. so there ya go, nothing special, we could even do it better.
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 13:27    Post subject:
Clevesa wrote:
Frant wrote:
Holy crap, this is impressive as hell.


+1.


+10
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 14:32    Post subject:
just noticed they forgot to turn shadows on in the options!
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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 16:36    Post subject:
membre999 wrote:
what a load of crap this movies. me and my friend could do it in 5 minutes AND for $ 0.05. But unfortunately I don't have the time to do it. so there ya go, nothing special, we could even do it better.


riiiiight im sure you could Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Wed, 18th Feb 2009 17:49    Post subject:
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It cost 90$ to shoot cause we had to hire a make up artist.

you can get them for free just goto the colleges where people are training to be a makeup artist the teachers encourage them to look for free work while they are still training.


you still have to pay them Sad
Regardless if they do it for free.
You may need this person in the future Very Happy


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PostPosted: Mon, 26th Aug 2013 22:38    Post subject:
Here is part 2. Pretty old but never posted in here that I can see.



And a trailer for the recently announced part 3 Smile

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We have had many requests to finish Part 3 and would love for you to have it. So we have turned the footage over to Frank Gugliuzzi who helped produce Part 2 as we have been working on other projects. He has put together a great team and Ian Purchase has agreed to oversee the project. Check it out at indiegogo! www.escapefromcity17.com




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