SW: Revelations?

[Grom 0]

This past Friday night I was sitting in my hotel room watching CNN. They were doing some sort of feature on Episode 3. One of the segments that caught my eye was their feature on fan-based Star Wars productions. One of those productions is called Star Wars: Revelations, which is set between The Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. Supposedly it's available for download on the internet. From the clips that I saw, it looks very well done, with artistic contributions from around the world. Has anyone seen this fan-made movie?

 

Seeing those clips made me realize how close the bridge is being gapped between professional movie makers and amateurs. With the kind of technology that is available on the market these days, good quality media productions can be produced at relatively low costs.

[Cougar 0]

I've seen about half of it, I plan to watch the rest sometime this week.

[Tachyon 0]

I heard about it, a news program I like to watch also did a feature. The producer put up $20 000 of his own money to finance the project, and a bunch of other places chipped in to help with it.

 

The official site is here: http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/

 

You can download and watch the movie from there, it's quite a hefty download (around 250 MB) and I've just been too lazy to get around to it. . . . ;)

[Seiben 0]

I heard about it as well.. looks interesting .

[JesusTrekkie 0]

::switches into film critic mode::

 

The special effects for the most part were quite impressive for amateurs, and I especially enjoyed the planet landings and takeoffs… very nice.

 

The acting left something to be desired: Taryn (Gina Hernandez), seem to jerk her lines out painfully; Zhanna (Karen Hammang) had a nice face for the evil chick, but her lackey delivered his lines better; Raux (Holland Gedney) was cute, I would have liked to have seen more of her; Cade (Shane Felux) was just as painful a character to listen to as Tayrn, but in the end Declan (Frank Hernandez) provided enough support to make the film something I could sit through.

 

The storyline was interesting, one that I enjoyed for some reason because of the girl jedi... heh. 45 minutes was not enough time to develop the story though, so it feels like everything is moving really really fast.

 

So would I suggest you watch Revelations? Yes, if only for the special effects (and the chance to see Cade in a storm trooper get up… twas funny). Watching this film has made me want to actually go and watch some other fan made films.

 

::switches out of film critic mode and walks on::

[Travis Kroells 0]

Yeah, I just downloaded it. It took about 12 hours on my DSL for some reason...it just went really slow.

 

I enjoyed it. It was good for a amateur low budget film. It's stuff like this that makes me want to think about trying to be creative.

 

;)