This is a movie recorded for Project #2 of Keith Houk's Video Art class. (it's the second time I've taken the course) It's a 100% VFX movie - not even one single shot was recorded "as is" without editing. The total length is 2 mins. 46 seconds. The movie is embedded below, as a response to the queries I've recieved - "Why don't you embed your videos?".
The cast is a recycled group of folks who have been in other movies. My dad, you've seen in the "Troop 4: Uncensored" series, and Jesse Wallace and Michael Davis were in "Send in the Clones 4".
The video, a three-week project, completed October 2006, made use of some personal indie-film innovations - paper insignias and decals on costumes (which look surprisingly good in-camera), large-scale water tank effects, and colored lighting filters.
Unfortunately, this will also be remembered as the last movie I made with my old MiniDV camcorder and $30 mic - so audio is pretty poor all around, and the single-CCD camcorder, combined with the rush to finish on deadline, resulted in some very poor bluescreen composites. But it still is worth watching. Even if it's shoddy in a few places.
Photos and video below