Nice little tale, a cool little character piece.
Was odd seeing David playing someone other that S'Ceris!
Can you tell us a bit about the filming locations?
Another nice Intrepid story. C'mon the Scots!
(Edited to take out spoilers! Sorry)
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Re: S’Ceris, we decided the makeup was just too much trouble, and we never really did it justice. Maybe we’ll revisit it in the future.
Regarding the locations. I’ll need to refresh my memory on a couple of them, but Discovery is pretty easy.
https://www.rrsdiscovery.co.uk/
I’ll check back on the other two.
Not bad. Better than most, actually.
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it.
Fan Films are not suppose to be perfect. A labour of love for sure but above all a joy to create. Great story, Thank you!
Mine certainly never are lol. But thank you, I’m glad you liked it.
Getting your film out there to share with the world is always an enormously wonderful achievement. These are such a labor of love and my hats off to you and your team. Quite an enjoyable production and thanks for sharing!
Thank you kindly! Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
So, watched it. I feels different than most of your previous works. It feels less confined, like the number of wider shots is bigger. I also suspect you directing it gives it a different feel.
I honestly had a bit of trouble understanding the V.O. at the beginning because the music was loud. But then I have some hearing loss so maybe that's just me.
I'm curious what sort of filter you used in the scene on the sailing ship, because it does this black halo-ing thing around overdriven lights characteristic of 1950s video.
I don’t know if my direction made much difference to be honest. I didn’t really do a good job there, and one thing I did learn was that direction isn’t really my bag. At least not when I’m also acting. I just didn’t give it the attention it needed, which was a problem more than once. The more open feel might be down to Steve’s handheld camera work, and possibly my choice of shots when I was cutting.
Re the opening narration and mix, I’m not sure actually, it sounds okay to my ear but I’m not a good judge of these things.
I’d need to check the project file re the filter, but it was a mix of different things to get a look I sort of liked. I was going for a sort of “not quite there”, slightly ghostly look. Not sure I achieved what I was going for. It’s kind of a mishmash to be honest.
I liked it (I didn't see the episode it was a sequel of sorts to, so I probably missed a lot of nods and some subtext.)
- I thought the sonic screwdriver bit was cute.
- As always your teams use of locations is good; including the library you filmed in.
I thought it was a nice little character piece for the most part the sound levels and mixing were good, the actors did fine and the actors voices could be heard (although for me as an 'ugly American'
I have to rewind at times to get what they are actually saying through their various accents
- but that's on me - not on your actors they delivered lines well and were clear. And I'm sure most of your European fans are going - "What accents??"
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Glad you liked it, and the sonic gag. I was quite fond of that gag, maybe a little obvious but it was fun to play with.
There is no prequel to this film, by the way. It’s a stand-alone. I possibly could have done more to make that obvious though.
We are remarkably lucky at some of the locations we get to use. The Discovery team didn’t charge us a penny to use the ship. They were really, really gracious, and seem genuinely excited about the film.
Yeah accents are always an issue, but that’s okay.
Thanks everyone for the lovely comments. It is very much appreciated. Sorry I took so long to respond, I’ve been pretty slammed at work and not hanging out online as much this week.
