The 2010 Star Wars Fan Movie Awards are over

Although we didn't win it was a very entertaining night. Seth Green, Jay Laga'aia, Dave Filoni, and Steve Sansweet were present to hand out awards. You should check out the winners on Atom.com.

Dave Filoni introducing George Lucas (pre-recorded video) for the George Lucas Selects Award.

The voting is over

The voting for the 2010 Official Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Audience Choice Award is now over. A big thanks goes out to everyone who supported us with their vote. Check back on August 13th to find out how the trailer matched up to the competition. Keep your fingers crossed.

Its Official !

The Star Wars : Forgotten Realm trailer is an official finalist of the 2010 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge. Please vote for our trailer at the following link:

Movie Trailer

Star Wars:Forgotten Realm trailer

I'm proud to present our long awaited trailer for Star Wars:Forgotten Realm. Follow the link below.

TRAILER

I hope everyone enjoys this preview of the movie. The trailer has been submitted to Atom films and approved for the Star Wars Fan Film challenge. Semi-finalists will be announced on July 22 and the public will be allowed to vote for their favorite fan film. Please be sure to vote for our trailer.

The credits at the end of the trailer reflect those who are seen in the trailer. Thanks to all of those who have been involved in some shape or form in the making of this fan film.

The Emperor

It's been a while since there was an update to the blog so I thought I would post a couple tantalizing pictures from the movie. We had a reshoot on Dec. 20, 2009. The original Imperial Palace scene (Scene 39a) had a poor bluescreen which made it extremely hard to pull a key from so we reshot the scene. A professional Emperor's mask was purchased and Chris Olsen reprised his role of the Emperor. I think the new footage turned out fantastic and, best of all, I can pull a much better key.



Where's the trailer you may ask? We are putting the final touches on it, ie saber contact flashes. The ADR session tomorrow will complete the voices for the scenes used in the trailer. Once completed it will be uploaded to the blog and submitted into the Atom Films' Star Wars Fan Films contest.

X-wings, TIE Fighters, Explosions, Oh My

Now that we are fully in post production mode, I though I'd release a 10 second tidbit. The shot is from the Imperial surprise attack scene that occurs near the beginning of the movie. There is no sound yet.

We've had two ADR sessions so far. Vader's voice has been recorded in its entirety. Yari'el and Jarad voice overs for the Sarco cockpit scenes have been recorded. Our first foley session was Thursday. What a blast. Dave, Max, and I are walking around the studio trying to sync the steps of Yari'el, Jarad, and the clone commander walking down a hallway. At the same time Dave is trying to mimic the armor sounds, Max is attempting to get the leather sound from the clones body suit as he moves in the scene, and I try to get the blaster sound as the clone trooper comes to attention.

We welcome Brian Kovacs to our production crew. He will be the sound designer of the film and is starting off with creating the ambient sounds of the Sarco cockpit and exterior (engines, fly-by, etc.).

Final Production Shoot and Opening Crawl

Hard to believe but on Sunday April 27th the final production shoot was completed at Fermilab. In the morning we shot a scene in the Atrium of Wilson Hall. The Atrium is the backdrop for a meeting with the Prime Minister of Berrata Prime and our two heroes. The scene was completed by 12:30 and then we moved to the second floor to film another scene. A scene that involved turning a conference room into a bar prior to filming. (refer to above picture by Max Monningh) Several people, cast and crew alike, pooled their space-age odds and ends and added them to the set. Batavia artist Joe Gagnepain dressed the set with his sculptures, Curtis the robot, etc.

Thanks to all of the stormtroopers, aliens, bounty hunters, humans, artists, cast, and crew who took part in this last shoot. Without you this fan film would not have had a chance. The only filming left is the few pick-up and redo shots. There will be miniature model filming during post production. Also, lots of rendering!

The opening crawl with the lead-in to the first scene has been completed. Here is the opening crawl and the opening shot. There aren't any sound effects or music after the Star Wars theme. (Star Wars Main Theme is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd, composed by John Williams) The nebula took 8 days to render with 3 processors. Compositing all elements together took 2 days. Enjoy.