Beyond Black Mesa

[homerdog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOrH5tfWorg&feature=player_embedded

Beyond Black Mesa is a short Independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series. This is an action packed short film centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.

- Independent short film - 2 years in the making - Endless hours of post
- 1 Canon HV20
- 7 Friends
- $1,200 budget for the full short film.

This film is not HL,HL2 or Opposing Forces. It's a short fan film that takes place in the Half-Life world. Also, as a completely independent film, we wanted to have a creative voice in the movie and make it a movie that we would enjoy shooting. We took artistic freedoms and liberties, unfortunately most of those decisions were determined by our limited resources.

 

[Rodéric]

! WARNING SPOILERS !

-Good overall
-no Zombies in HL, try again.
-Combines don't have wakizashi as part of their equipment
-Filtering mask protect from dust so throwing dust at a Combine is useless

 

[Grall]

The good thing is it's a really high quality production for what amounts to a hobby project, and I'm really super impressed at their accomplishment. I think it deserves very high marks for that, and proves just how good you can get with limited means with today's tech.

The bad thing is I just didn't think it was all that great fun watching it. I never made it to the end.

Roderic, actually there are zombies in HL universe, but I suppose they had to go with L4D-style ones because it was too difficult or expensive to manufacture matching headcrab, mutated-arms-clawed-fingers and cracked-open-ribcage-prosthetics.

So they have the means, for sure. At least when it comes to tech, if not the actual money. Maybe next time they'll come up with a really great story too? Kudos to the group, anyhow.

 

[homerdog]

! WARNING SPOILERS !

-Good overall
-no Zombies in HL, try again.
-Combines don't have wakizashi as part of their equipment
-Filtering mask protect from dust so throwing dust at a Combine is useless

The samurai sword and zombies were strange and unnecessary, but I agree good overall.

 

[The549]

...So they have the means, for sure. At least when it comes to tech, if not the actual money. Maybe next time they'll come up with a really great story too? Kudos to the group, anyhow.

what did you want? gone with the wind? besides, too much story gets in the way of how cool the movie is. props

 

[Bludd]

It's okay, nothing mindblowing.