|
Randy Cassingham's BlogHistorical Details and Author's Notes from This is True®
|
Online Video: Simply Cool
Ever since I saw Tron in 1982, I wondered how long it would be before computer power would allow anyone with talent to become a "real" filmmaker.
By that I mean they wouldn't even need financing because they had everything they needed in the computer on their desktop (plus a nice camcorder; the new digital models work nicely). The day is here.
Weekly Weird News
I'm sure 405 is not the first well-done independent movie made without a budget, but this is one incredible 3-minute movie. It was "released" (on the movie's web site, of course -- this is the 2000s, yaknow!) on June 5th. It created so much buzz, and displayed so much talent, that it took only three weeks for the two film makers, Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt, to be signed up by a major Hollywood agent.
It's offered in MPEG 4 (which may require you to update your movie viewer; a codec for the Windows Media Player is available for download on their site; it's a bit of a pain to install it, but it's worth it so you can get incredibly clear video from a mere 7.72 MB file). Watch the movie, and then read the "Making Of" pages on the web site: you'll probably be very amazed about what it is that you saw!
And, as someone who used to commute in L.A., yes: the traffic is really just like that! :-)
---
And just under five years later, online video took off as Youtube was born. And that makes it easy for me to include the movie right here:
The movie's site notes that the computers used only had from 256MB to 512MB of RAM. With Pentium-class systems, it took them 3-1/2 months to pull this off.
RSS
4 Comments on This Entry
All comments in this blog are reviewed prior to being published. Spammers: don't waste your time. The posting criteria are simple: if a comment is worth visitors' time to read, it's approved. If not, it's not.
Posted by Michael in California (not that one!) on July 2, 2010:
And the website's link to Amazon is still, 10 years later, for the 11 minute VHS tape.
---
I guess the guys have moved on from this project. -rc
Posted by Todd in Texas on July 6, 2010:
Wow, I clicked on the link to 405themovie and my company web filter flagged it as Porno!!! Now that will take some explaining.
---
There's certainly no porn in it. -rc
Posted by Ken, New York on July 6, 2010:
I guess there's something ironic about the fact that the hi-res version of "405" is currently "404". :-)
Posted by Mary Rowe, Torrance, California on July 6, 2010:
Oh, Randy, totally worth the three minutes to watch this. Thanks for the link.