Badass, indeed!

Thanks man glad you liked it

Eugenia, Judd's planning to release the final film in 2.35:1 scope ratio. don't worry.

Thanks btw!

Thanks Mike and thanks again for all the help on Divine River.
I cant wait to see Ayz post the prequel, you, Mac and Oisin really helped bring that together.

Thanks Noah the short should be going online sometime after the launch.

Thanks Bryce, really appreciate that I've never really put my work out to the internet before so its great to hear people enjoying it.

Hey glad you enjoyed the teaser, as Ayyaz noted the film was shot for 2.35 so when we do put the short film out expect to see it a more traditional cinemascope.

I really hope it builds enough interest that we do start to see some GOOD Cyberpunk films released its a criminally under appreciated sub-genre with so much potential.

Thanks Ashley.
Yeah $1600 was just for production design.

Everyone did work for free, for which I am still extremely grateful, but we did have to hire lens, camera, lights, etc, we had hand made costumes for the 40 cast and extras, quite a few make up FX so it all adds up.

Fortunately even with those costs though people were very good to us, the studio space was a centre were they run programs to help disadvantaged kids and we were able to involve them so we ended up using the place for several months for only a few hundred dollars, like wise the fire gags, rigging stunt work in the short would have costs tens of thousands of dollars that I certainly didnt have. But fortunately I knew some very experienced Stunt people mostly from Sleeper (a previous low budget feature I'd produced the year before and so we managed to do a huge amount just paying for the hard costs.

Thanks Judd. I loved the the behind the scenes footage which helps tremendously as I'm gearing up to make my own short film.

The Extreme scope was strictly for the Teaser. But Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for the kind words, the short is coming together really well looking forward to getting it out there.

By far the hardest part of production was shooting all the action (about 14 pages worth) in the space of two days). To pull it off we had Sam (the 10 year old who plays Jonny) rehearsing the routine with the fight choreographers and various stunt people for the previous 6 weeks, with only a few changes as we went and on the day due to location and shooting practicality's.

Our third day was set aside for the actual drama scenes, our introduction of Jonny, Mac, Jax and the Grey, meeting Big T, and the final confrontation as Jonny prepares to do what he was paid to do.

Also we moved quite quickly but kept the fluid subjective style I was looking for throughout, by shooting about 80% of the short film on steadicam (Thankyou Milan) with only the final confrontation switching to a more locked off style.

The website will have more info on how things were done, and theres also a full Behind the scenes on the film with interviews from department heads etc. that I'm planning to release around the time of the launch.

But like wise feel free to buzz me any questions on frame137@hotmail.com.

Thanks Florian.
The production designers behind the scenes on how he built the set can be found here vimeo.com/8255232 and on the films facebook page.
The behind the scenes for the film has not been released yet. I'll be putting that up on here along with the films facebook page. It will be be online prier to the films release.

Thank you very much. I'm curious about the final release, the whole project is really inspiring. It's always motivating to see what's possible even without the big cash.

Thanks Shaun. It helps when you have a great crew and a ten year old who's been training since he was one and a half.

Thanks atmosphere is really what I was going for with the short.
For me that's the thing with great sci-fi and particularly cyberpunk its just crammed with so many layers, its why in Bladerunner the world has depth even if you only get a chance to glimpse a fraction of it in one scene its intriguing, you know there's more and you want to see it.

Cool hope you can make it, looks like the talk should be fun, cheers.

Hey Jay great seeing you last night, it really is a great genre, hopefully Frame is just the tip of the iceberg of what will get made in the next few years..

Thanks Robbie a big part of it is the Anamorphic Lomo lenses as well, they have such beautiful flares and depth of field on the RED it adds a real solid cinematic style, particularly when you see it in the more familiar 2.35 ratio, but overall the age and quality of the Lomo's just gives a more ntural "real" look.

Thanks Ron,
Im hoping to have a new trailer which is more narrative based up in the next few days, the final short, I've pushed back until everything is polished but should be sometime in April I think.

Shoot me over any production questions though all the best, talk soon, cheers.

Let me know how you go getting something up I love Cyberpunk and its so seldom done well, Im more then happy to help out if I can if it means more good content being made.
Cheers.

yeah i know. i was part of a project in Australia :) siliconspies.com/ good idea not so well executed :) but now i am in russia and it is just calling for a cyberpunk movie

ahh Silicon Spies, I met Dean years ago, a good guy, with great intentions, even the idea wasnt half bad, but the execution really was "tacky TV" and they couldnt really lock in if they were a Dirty Dystopian future or a Clean Utopian one.
Russia though has had some great films recently the Nightwatch, Daywatch etc series has been a big inspiration just in terms of their tone and visual style, was great to see him successfully branch into the US. along with Germany, Russia is one of two countries the original Frame world really draws on for a lot of its aesthetic, to the point where if Detroit doesnt prove viable to make the feature I will seriously be looking into Russia I suspect.

Sweet@ I knew the world is fairly tiny. Am good friends with Dean. Well at least when i saw him last like 6 years ago. Russia is certainly cool for aesthetics and old soviet junk :) keep in touch... :) i am planning on a first russian zombie movie this summer

Cool I have a friend who did an Irish Zombie movie, if you get the right spin, it can be a fascinating concept, if you havent seen it check out the short australian zombie film "I love Sarah jane", its very Australian both in humour and in characterization and it really uses the zombie backdrop beautifully. course you can always go the all out insanity approach as wel which is why Zombie vfilms are SO versatile.

thanks man, I hope to have some new stuff up real soon, just want to get everything perfect before I put it out, cheers.

Thanks had a look at your website, some nice work there the composition on the B&W stuff particularly.

Thanks Yann, just wrapped on a feature Ive been producing and I'm officially back onto finishing the short so hope to have it finished up... shortly

cheers guys, you should check out the Hatter M comic series very dark moody stuff reminds me of Ben Templesmith art wise, with a cool surreal victorian vibe, you'd probably dig it. Plus Chuck Roven is attached to produce a fetaure version of the Looking glass wars which the Hatter M series is a spin off from.

Anyway thanks for the support and hope you guys keep at it, cheers.

THanks man, Working with James since has been a real pleasure too.

Working with him since? Damn, you are lucky. I'm just doing the whole indie thing without help, well, a little help from an actress and a band but not much else. Good luck with everything, if you're ever in Florida (and soon LA) and you need help, let me know.

Appreciate at it Richard.
After nearly 12 months of having the trailer up Im glad to see the film should be ready by New Years (which is like the 3rd time at least Ive set a deadline so i guess even Im dubious of myself now)

But yeah its been a great process since the trailer went out, from working with O'Barr on the feature to refining the short and a bunch of other stuff like producing a feature film in between, but yeah its an adventure and its great to have something you can be passionate about to come back to at the end of the week.

By the way love your city timelapse, the first shot reminded me of a circuit board breathing, was beautiful.

that's awesome. i'm glad i've just come to learn about this project sooner rather than later, otherwise the wait would of killed me.

thanks a lot man. that was definitely the idea. i'll be incorporating some time lapse as well as some motion control photography in my short cp story. don't be surprised if you get a link with a password one day with some up to date progress. i would love to here your thoughts regarding.

Thank you Tom, as someone who very seldom posts myself, it is a true compliment to recieve your kind words. the film is only a week or two away, right now so Im looking forward to having it officially out cheers.

hey joe thanks for the comment, just saw it now, its been a long time coming but its in the final stretch now with FX due by January and hopefully the film to be released shortly after if everything keeps pace this time, cheers.

The anamorphic properties of the lomos double the width of the 16x9, 4K recorded image. RED cameras prior to having the "anamorphic" setting could only record in 16x9, now they have a mode that automatically crops and stretches the image so you can see a true 2.35 anamorphic image when you use anamorphic lenses.