"The Exodous Project" Begins

I did a short StarWars movie (bout ten minutes, including opening crawl and end credits), and the costumes didn't cost us that much. Of course, we only had to pay for one Jedi's and one Sith's robe. :-)

We had 4 actors: 2 Jedi, 2 Sith. One of our actors owned a brown bathrobe (looked almost perfect), we had two pair of khaki pants, plenty of boots, two pair of black pants, and two black shirts and two white shirts. For the one Jedi's "over shirt tunic thing" we used an old towel (cut a hole for the head, draped it over him, and put a belt around him. For one of the belts we actually used the toy replica you can buy. For the other belt we just used some cloth. A friend of ours lent us a black tunic thingy he'd worn in a play, and we made the other one from some cloth. (With some help from mom :-) The other Jedi's robe was actually just a piece of brown cloth draped over his shoulders, which was very convincing for the short time he had to wear it.

We took copper pipe (we just had some lying around the house, and it happened to be the perfect radius :-) and cut off 11 to 12 inch sections. For some of them we cut one end diagonally (because it looks cool :-). We painted these black or silver.

For a grip, we took Nerf arrows, cut off the hollow part, painted it black or silver, and stuck it on the copper pipe. These turned out to be so-so, as the paint rubbed off after a day's use. I've since seen on web sites that you can use windshield wipers as grips... it sounds interesting :-)

The last thing we did was add extra metal parts we had lying around the house. On a couple of them, we put those metal... well, I'm not sure what they're called. They're used to fasten hoses together or something, they're basically like a metal ribbon that tightens with a screw. We stuck those on the diagonal ones, just under the lip. Looked cool. We used whatever was handy for a power switch, and just glued it right on to the handle.

Oh and the trick to getting 20 people involved at once is to just tell them that your shooting a movie and that they get to hold a cool gun and blow things up.
As childish as this sounds it works 99% of the time! Save the realy dedicated ones for either real charactor roles or saber fights, as they don't mind as much if someone hits them with a really big stick!

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Originally posted by Exodous Project:
Anyone interested in helping me with Ideas on anything which yould make this film as realistic as posible, please let me know.

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If you are confused by what i said in my last post, let me clarify.
Replica sabers are sabers out of the movies, ie EP I, IV, V and VI because it is not authenic for a project. While it is nice to have these for collection, they do pose a problem (by this i mean IV,V,I sabers) when it comes to producing quality fight scenes as graflex sabers lack sutable grip and are awkwardly contoured for fast action.

Parks Sabers hold a highly profesional look but they come in all varities (including replicas) that are working or non working. Working ones usualy consist of a plasma blade, an non working ones don't. While plasma blades are cool things, they are not right for profesional films. Thuss the reason why we rotoscope our sabers.

But this argument is going outside the realm of this forum topic. I hope this cleared you up, and if not, exactly what was the last posting about then???

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The Exodous Project
Dream, Vision, Reality

Not funny.

However That is not the main focus of the film!!! While it may be the finished product, the aim is to present the making of this film in detail. But it has to look profesional!!!!

My challange now, cause we are only in pre-produciton is to get everything togeather and workout what is available. I have acess to a sound and movie studio, for all the profesional indoor shots, and I have a request for 3D animaters floating around some other forums (that request is open here to). I am off to purchace material tomorow for the Sith costume, and I have a saber incomming from Parks Sabers (thank god).

What else asside from script should I be looking for now???

I do want this to be good, so I need to work out how I can utilise all my resources. You guys are all welcome to participate if you wish.

I hope to get a test fight up for viewing and nit picking soon. I am taking my time, because I would like it to be complementing the movie in quality.

If anyone is interested in being a part of this fan film feel free to let me know, becaust It will be somthing huge if i can get some more people involved

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The Exodous Project
Dream, Vision, Reality

these are the sturdiest, most durable sabers i have ever seen, which my uncle helped me make.

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The working title for the film is now just Exodus. It will begin shooting on the 11th of November 2000. It is curently going to be a series of installments which will accululate to one film.

It is costing an arm and a leg so far. I have had to test my resourcefullness to the brink and its starting to pay off. I have a crew of 6 which form the film group for Exodus and we have about 5 DVC's to play with . I have access to 2 sound studios and I have a CGI expert who is quite happy to do CG for me.

I have spent the last 5 months accumulating props and costumes. Also working out hitches like how in gods name to turn someone into and effective looking Twilek (long story).

But now Its starting to come togeather. I'll update this thread regularly and if u have any questions feel free to ask. (Got to finish my HSC Exams first)

Cya round people

Actualy geting the handles has proved to be a fight to the death. The person who was making me a double edged saber has mysteriously left the country.???

The amount of fore planing that has gone into the first scene to be released is incredible, and at the moment, I have costumers working out designs, I have a Make up artist trying to feasably recreate a headpiece for a twilek and I have my consept designers working with me and I refer the designs to the CGI people.

I believe that if there are no major issues that are currently unforseen, then this should go very well.

I will post some of the cosept designs very soon.

Regards people

Work on Exodus is increasing fast now. I hope to have a website up as soon as all the costumes are made and our production pictures are compleated.....

more info soon

The beginning of exodus is a cross between a Thriller and a Horror film, its been designed so as to provoke certian feelings, and its not ment to be pretty.

Its going to be laden with effects, thats for sure, but its going to look at the power of the Dark Side and how it effects and blinds those who are week of the mind.