watch a very short film about an unlucky astronaut

gregmetcalfe · Oct 15, 2010

this is my latest little bit of work, made over the summer holidays mostly as an excuse to build the inside of a spaceship out of cardboard, old medical supplies and lots of silver spray paint.

I hope you enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wlxia7jCVI

Murdock · Oct 15, 2010

HAH I liked it. So was the guy with the mic god or just a big dude?? The begining reminded me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWOzUzJd6wM

gregmetcalfe · Oct 16, 2010

haha, i hadn't even thought about the possibility of him being god. Its entirely up to your own interpretation though. I'd be interested to know if anyone else came to different conclusions.

Zensteve · Oct 16, 2010

That was pretty good.

NathanH · Oct 16, 2010

Fuck yeah! That was great

gregmetcalfe · Oct 17, 2010

thanks very much!

HalfNakedRodeo · Oct 17, 2010

Hah I really didn't see the end coming. Nice motion tracking with the window on the tiny rocket. Really enjoyed it!

gregmetcalfe · Oct 17, 2010

HalfNakedRodeo said:
Hah I really didn't see the end coming. Nice motion tracking with the window on the tiny rocket. Really enjoyed it!

cheers.
Yeah that motion track was made particularly difficult by the fact that I was tracking the camera back on an improvised dolly made from a lego train set. Wobbly as hell.

BenKrech · Oct 24, 2010

What a wonderfully bizarre and interesting short. I dig it!

Murdock · Oct 24, 2010

gregmetcalfe said:
cheers.
Yeah that motion track was made particularly difficult by the fact that I was tracking the camera back on an improvised dolly made from a lego train set. Wobbly as hell.

Gotta love the Legos

ussinners · Oct 25, 2010

Very cool and imaginative.

gregmetcalfe · Oct 26, 2010

thanks everyone! very kind words, gratefully received.

gregmetcalfe · Nov 16, 2010

a little bit of news on the film: its now featured on the Sputnik7 website. I think I can count this as my first bit of 'recognition'... or something like that. I know its hardly a breakthrough, but its put a stupid proud smile on this particular face.

Anyhoo, its here: http://sputnik7.com/file/5810-10-short-film.html

chilipie · May 8, 2011

This thread came up while I was searching for something else… and I realised I've worked with the astronaut! Small world. Funnily enough, I'm off to meet him tomorrow to look over the edit and colour grade for a short I gaffered and he wrote/directed earlier this year.

Love the film, by the way Greg!

Jack Lynt · May 8, 2011

Haha! Brilliant!

gregmetcalfe · Jul 4, 2011

chilipie said:
This thread came up while I was searching for something else… and I realised I've worked with the astronaut! Small world. Funnily enough, I'm off to meet him tomorrow to look over the edit and colour grade for a short I gaffered and he wrote/directed earlier this year.

Love the film, by the way Greg!

Haha! yeah chris mentioned this came up, small world indeed. I look forward to seeing the film, it sounded good from what i'd heard about it from chris.

cheers.

UncleKornicob · Jul 4, 2011

Very Creative, and funny!I commented on it for ya! Keep up the amazing work!

gregmetcalfe · Jul 4, 2011

UncleKornicob said:
Very Creative, and funny!I commented on it for ya! Keep up the amazing work!

thankyou! very kind words.

UncleKornicob · Jul 4, 2011

gregmetcalfe said:
thankyou! very kind words.

No problem, what equipment did you use? and to edit?

gregmetcalfe · Jul 5, 2011

UncleKornicob said:
No problem, what equipment did you use? and to edit?

it was shot on my little panasonic dv camera, nothing very fancy but its at the higher end of the 'home movie' amateur range. Ive since upgraded to a Nikon D90 so hopefully the next thing i do will at least look prettier. Did the rough edit in sony vegas and then used Adobe After Effects to superimpose the astronaut and add in the lights and writing on the screens etc.

watch a very short film about an unlucky astronaut

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