Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Half Life 2 Short Film


From YouTube:
Directed by The Purchase Brothers.

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.

3 comments:

Joe said...

I take it that $500 didn't include the cost of the camera, the editing software, the computer they did it on, nor any rights to the game or anything. Still mighty impressive. But where are the night sticks and rocket launchers?

Mike said...

Wow, very impressive! What on earth does Hollywood do with those million$?

Jay said...

I did think it was pretty cool how they worked the crowbar in, though.

Mike, I've wondered about that myself ...