- Director
- Stanley Von Medvey
- Date
- 2012
- Genre
- sci-fi
The crew aboard the spaceship Argo has just awoken from hypersleep to a nightmare. Having spent the last twenty years searching for a new home to salvage humanity from a dying earth they return home and find something has gone terribly wrong. They have been mysteriously impelled 200 years into the future and find not a trace of any human life. The Argo's Commander, Dr. Richard Adams is determined to find some answers and, aided by the ship's surgeon, Rod Lewis, and onboard Artificial Intelligence, Clarke, decides to explore the one clue to the massive floating O'Neill colony named L5. After an exploratory skiff goes missing inside the colony, Adams and Lewis venture inside themselves to find the answers they seek, nothing can prepare them for what they are about to find.
Director: Stanley Von Medvey
Writer: Tom Ptasinski
Producers: Tom Ptasinski, Adam Nelson
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CROWDFUNDED ORIGINAL DRAMA
L5 is a completely crowd-funded production, through the generosity of donors from sites such as kickstarter and indiegogo, the creative team of L5 has spent a year bringing the story to life.Our goal with L5 was to create a compelling, high-production-value science fiction on a small budget. After endless hours in post production were volunteered by a talented team of visual effects artists all over the world, and with the spit and vinegar of home grown construction methods for building props, sets and costumes, as well as the unrelenting support of our families and the local art and business community in the Chicago area, the result was accomplished inside a budget of $15,000.
Now we need your help!
You've seen what we can do with so little. We want to multiply that, and do even more. We want to build a unique production environment that will enable us to continue creating more episodes of L5, as well as other original science fiction content.
SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS CROWDFUNDED SERIES!
The money we raise with your support will go towards seeding a brand new, cloud based production system. It will fund a proof of concept for a cloud based intelligent task management technology, allowing us to pursue the investment we need to create a global film and visual effects production system. It will allow us to research the best open-source VFX pipeline, taking advantage of all the existing free tools, while allowing us to develop new ones. This system will drive the cost of making high-end visual effects down, allowing us to produce L5 and other content cost effectively. Our stories are just huge, and we need an equally huge and innovative approach to film making to pull it off. Combined with the local film production talent in Chicago, we believe we can make anything, on a fraction of the budget.We want to offer these services to up and coming film makers and productions, giving creative and talented people the most bang for their production budgets by opening up a tool set that was previously inaccessible to all but the most well funded productions.
Help us usher in a new renaissance of science fiction!
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jean.b.henrichsen
on April 08, 2012 at 7:52pm
@RAPHAELHUBER1977
Well said m8 :)
karatasiospa
on April 08, 2012 at 3:45pm
@RAPHAELHUBER1977
Unfortunately most people in the bittorrent community have the "take everything give back nothing" kind of thinking. And i agree with you. We get what we deserve.
raphaelhuber1977
on April 08, 2012 at 3:35pm
1.7 million downloads? what IF everyone would spend a dollar? or half? or a tenth?
But no, not even a lousy percent of the downloaders spends a dollar each. It's a shame and proves that the bittorent scene is just a bunch of leechers and hypocryts. Makes it understandable why big studios want to wipe out bittorrent and piratebay. because WE deserve to be wiped out if we can't manage to fund L5 significantly ourselves.
TradSliggle
on April 08, 2012 at 2:57am
And of course, its another Stanley
TradSliggle
on April 08, 2012 at 2:54am
What a great show this is. It is science fiction based on HARD science!!! That means the show tries to be scientificly accurate. As an example of a flawed science fiction; the movie Moon looked really great outside the moon station but inside there was earth gravity, that ruined the movie for me. l5 is in the same league as 2001.
Chad Burns
on April 05, 2012 at 10:31pm
The next donor gets to be the one to push L5 past $12,000!
Chad Burns
on April 03, 2012 at 3:56pm
Tomorrow April 4 is Director Stanley Von Medvey's Birthday.
Everyone make a wish...I know what his is.
Want to give him an awesome present?
Donate an extra 2 bucks....
FullLoon
on April 03, 2012 at 1:10am
Hey guys, thanks for coming to Minnesota to show L5 at MarsCon. After 2 weeks my wife and I were still so buzzed about it we decided to toss a bit of money toward episode 2.
madnorthnorthwest
on March 30, 2012 at 7:51pm
What an amazing first episode. Great quality. Great premise. I can't wait for more episodes. Will be donating of course.
shorty
on March 26, 2012 at 9:06am
Okay, a short episide, could only get two weeks out of ten minutes per week as suggested, not sure that will help. What kind of funding target are we looking at
Hemoglobin, I know you indicated you don't really know for sure, how about just an order of magnitude. Studio investment could be millions or tens of millions or ... Knowing the goal helps the step of helping.
Thanks.
goomoon
on March 26, 2012 at 2:38am
It is a good. I was just looking at the color and perspective and a new name. Only to make it look better.
Mark Harris
on March 25, 2012 at 4:23pm
@SEMICHARM, or another idea might be to release it for free in 10-min per week chunks, but offer the whole thing as one for pay. So the people who want it all now, can get it. I'm thinking about all of this stuff a lot because I'm looking at a VODO release of my own film later in the Spring.
semicharm
on March 25, 2012 at 1:01am
Mark Harris:
And considering the amount of work this episode must have taken, maybe release three 10 min episodes to stretch out your time some more.
Good point. I've seen other similar sci-fi projects, such as the original Sanctuary web series, go that route. It's kind of like were most shows would have a commercial break. Except the breaks could be a couple of weeks. Also like L5, Sanctuary did their scenes almost excursively during post production in CG. Most of it was static camera angles, but that was 5 years ago when motion tracking wasn't cheap.
Mark Harris
on March 24, 2012 at 3:52pm
Really very impressed with this. Some of the CGI is kind of clunky, but the focus on the drama and characters proves that that doesn't matter as much as people like to think it does. All too often, Effects are used in the biggest blockbusters on down, to cover up a lack of anything actually happening. I really applaud you guys for focusing on what's important.
Another thing I thing I really appreciate is the actual cinematic quality of the shooting. The mistake that CGI heavy movies usually make (see Phantom Menace) is they treat the screen like a proscenium and just kind of point the camera at the action. I love how you created actual shots and gave them depth by placing objects between the viewer and the actors. Simple things like the transparent computer screens, windows, etc.
Special kudos on details like the coming and going of the sunlight in the rotating section of the ship.
I think in future episodes you can improve this even more by working on the acting some, getting the actors to do less and less. What I mean is there are times when they overact just that hair enough to kill their edge. A simple example is an actor in CU reacting to something by turning her head. But since she's in CU, just reacting with her eyes is enough. The head turn pushes that moment just enough over into overacting.
This is all minor, as the acting is very good, just throwing out a suggestion on making it even better.
Also, have you considered breaking this into smaller episodes? I saw numerous good places to leave it at a cliff hanger. And considering the amount of work this episode must have taken, maybe release three 10 min episodes to stretch out your time some more. I'm sure many will disagree, but as I said, give the work involved…
Yossa
on March 24, 2012 at 2:28pm
I loved the reflections of the film crew in the helmet-visor. You all look great in black ;)
Great initial episode. Good attention to detail with great editing. I think there is definitely a good foundation on which too build future episodes.
Note to the chaps/chapesses (is that a word?) doing the screens for the tech - they are highly visible during the show and often display material associated with production and not "realistic data"- if that makes sense. Soz - been a techy for more than 30 years - I`ll get my coat.
So, in closing, great first episode, great production values and excellent effects, given budget considerations etc.
Keep the faith and keep up the excellent work!
semicharm
on March 24, 2012 at 7:23am
Thanks Chad, caught the interview. Really appreciate the show's dedication to trying to get the science, that science doesn't need to be the fiction in sci-fi.
Chad Burns
on March 23, 2012 at 1:53am
Stanley Von Medvey, Tom Ptasinski and myself are going to be on a internet radio show in a little bit. We'll talk a lil L5, and general nerdiness It's kinda last minute, but should be fun. Come check it out.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/grenache/2012/03/23/clobberin-time-2012-thursday-night
Show starts at 8PM central, and we'll be on...LIVE...from 9 to 10. we might be starting a show of our own soon...
Chad Burns
on March 21, 2012 at 8:11pm
Hello All!
Wanted to point you all to a little video message from Stanley and myself.
http://youtu.be/waSOiOx4afs on Youtube.
and
http://vimeo.com/38868240 on Vimeo.
Chad Burns
on March 21, 2012 at 2:52pm
@ DAVODD
Thanks! If you did enjoy, please join us on Facebook and have a say in the future of L5.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/L5Fans/
Davodd
on March 21, 2012 at 11:50am
Too bad it's flash based. Won't stream on my iPad. :( I downloaded it and converted it to M4V and played it via Apple TV on my big screen. It looked wonderful. Much better graphics and acting than I expected for such a low budget.
The editing was top notch as was art direction.