New Sci-Fi Short Film Made With A Mac
New Sci-Fi Short Film Made With A Mac
by , 3:00 PM EDT, June 29th, 2004
K2 Films has released a new sci-fi action movie on DVD that was created using various Apple products. The short film is called Radius, and was created using a variety of Apple applications and hardware including DVD Studio Pro and Final Cut Pro. The 2-disc DVD contains not only the feature itself, but a Mac aimed tutorial on how to make films from the guerilla school of thought. According to K2 Films:
K2 Films today announced the release of its sci-fi action film RADIUS.
The RADIUS 2-disk DVD is an epic of independent, guerrilla filmmaking. Despite being shot on 35mm film, in exotic locations such as California’s Death Valley, and featuring over 150 visual effects shots, RADIUS was made by a first-time director on a budget of under $60,000—less than the budget of most television commercials.
The low budget was achieved through classic guerrilla filmmaking frugality, but also by extensive use of the Macintosh. Editing, music, sound and visual effects were all done on inexpensive Macs using off-the-shelf software. Also, the director managed the whole production from a PowerBook G4, working mostly from various Starbucks cafes around Los Angeles.
The 2-disk RADIUS DVD features the RADIUS film itself, two commentary tracks by the filmmakers and actors, and over 4 hours of Making Of content, organized like a Guerrilla-Film-School-on-Disk.
Aimed at curious film fans and aspiring filmmakers, the Guerrilla-Film-School-on-Disk is organized into chapters, with each one narrated by director Helmut Kobler and dedicated to a specific filmmaking step. Topics include: casting, location scouting, storyboards, costume design, set design, props, cinematography, on-set production, film editing, sound, visual effects, music, marketing, and more. A 7 minute chapter is dedicated to explaining how Kobler’s PowerBook G4, running Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, was key in managing the film and creating the 2-disk DVD.
You can find more information about the Radius DVD at the Radius Web site. The Radius DVD is available for US$19.95.
Observer Comments
It's good to see kool movies like this. I love my mac and all, and im an apple fanatic to teh core, but im no zealot, butI hate these articles making seem like they only use da mac to do everything. For th evidual effects, the 3d was done in MAYA for the pc, not on the mac, and some of the after effects stuff was on the mac. "Look there wa smovie made on a mac" statements are such crap, you use a ma ckeyboard in a movie connected to a pc and all of a sudden they over blow it saying some sensationanlist crap like "apple trechnology used to create new film" when yes, TECHNICALLY it was, but when you get to teh details, you find taht the article was petty and overblowing something so small. Look at the visual effects section on tehir sirte, youll see hwat im sayin.
the film really was a mac production. if you subscribe to macaddict magazine, their current issue's cd has a video about the making of radius. it goes through all the ways the mac was used. the director of the film narrates it, and is also a regular writer for macaddict, and the writer of those final cut for dummies books, and a mac fanatic. he talks specifically about how he did a ton of stuff on his pbook.
It's not fanatical to say a film was created using a Mac. Granted they did not cut the entire film on FCP, but rather Avid. The Mac did play and integral role, and that is what this article is about. Plain and simple. If you looked a bit further you would see how this film is very mac related, and hey guess what, your on a Mac New Web Site! What the bloody hell do you expect to read? Duh.
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