This is our little no budget- scifi short film we shot here in Finland in 2014, out in the open. Hope you guys enjoy. "For others it was a dead world, for her it was a land of opportunity."
This reminds me of an early D&D game. The players enter a bar just on the edge of the wastelands. They don't know each other. For some reason, a fight breaks out, and they end up helping each other out. Afterward, they head out together to start their life of adventures together.
Wonderful! I kept thinking to myself "there's something about their voices - was it dubbed?" Then I see you're from Finland. Its just the way they speak English. Its a pity the first one wasn't longer. I find myself wondering what Fray and her partner will get up to next. Thank you so much for sharing, and here's to your continued work.
This has real potential, but also needs a lot of work. I hope you produce more episodes and make each one better than the last. You know what needs to be improved.
Pyhät tulipallot! 2014 ?! Toivon, että olet työskennellyt jatko-osan parissa, koska TÄMÄ on kuuma ominaisuus ja ansaitsee sarjan ja / tai pitkäkestoisen elokuvan. PARAS lyhyt mitä olen nähnyt kuukausina. Bravo! ************************* Holy fireballs! 2014?! I hope you've been working on a "sequel", because THIS is a hot property and deserves a series and/or a feature-length movie. BEST short I've seen in months. Bravo!
I appreciated it, i think it's not for everyone, i didn't understand really the whole context, but it seems that the important point was the new relationship they were building each other.
Loved it! Main characters have chemistry and liked the guys and girls acting even though it was short. I really liked the action scenes and bet if it had a great script it could be really great! I’d love to see something else made
Is this a "proof of concept" or a pilot for something potentially bigger? Previous comments on the cardboard acting are spot on, but if it got commissioned, a good director would kick them into touch. The setting, and writing are pretty good though, straight out of a comic. It left me wanting to see the next episode(s)!
Hey, sorry for taking a while to answer. It was originally thought of as a "proof of concept" but just became a too-long-short. Proof-of-concepts are usually really short, like one minute and just mostly show shots.
Thank you for putting this out. It was a lot of work from the crew and the actors. You did really well, considering it was no/low budget, and that it was 7 years ago... The ADR... I, personally would have preferred the dialog be natural, native, with subtitles. Cut out some of stuff that doesn't add to the story, like the glass looking and booze sloshing at 6:02. Add some diegetic sounds, even if you have to use on-set microphones.
Bwahaha just watched this again for the first time in a couple of years. Being involved in this project is one of my favorites memories from my time in Finland. Could the acting have been better? Sure. Dialogue? Most def! But this is an amazing project, with a great crew. And I mean, c'mon, set design, editing, overall production value! Thanks so much @hmcindie for everything! PS- I'm one of the actors with the charisma of a wet paper bag, as one of the haters below described us. Lol. That shit is funny!!!
I think the showdown scene would have been more convincing if the heroine actress had been directed to act just a bit uptight or a tad worried instead of just matter of fact as if no risk was involved, but overall I could feel myself getting sucked into it all. A worthy effort to be sure. Wish I could have been a part of it. Thanks for sharing it.
Good movie. I loved the way his gun blew up on him. Well they got thrown out of the bar with nothing for their efforts. Love the way she just gets up the spunk to go on and try something else. I wonder if she will ever get her money?
This was so lit! Y'all should put that outro track on soundcloud or something. Would've liked to see a few vampires getting dusted but loved your style nonetheless. :) Thank you for coming through when LURK didn't -_-
Nice. I'd say more on the sci-fi side than steampunk, but nothing wrong with that. It'd be a good pilot for a series or teaser for a feature. An interesting world. If there was more, I'd watch it.
Great job guys, if this had been a full lenght film I would have watched the whole thing. The voice dubbing was a little bad, but the cinematography more than made up for it. Keep it up, I want more!
Very funny in a delightfully gritty, ultra camp sort of way! Sergio Leone would be proud. Well, hey, my opinion. 'The Good, The Bad, and the Really, Really Ugly' in space with a female lead. Could be a success on the big screen if promoted correctly. A potential cult favorite. Try Kickstarter!
That'll be $5, please. [ : - Q ] Seriously, I look forward to the future adventures of... I can't see how others missed the humor. Black humor is hard for people to catch sometimes, but when one sees someone drinking out of a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it, a knock-em-down, drag-em-out fight where everyone's none the worse at the end (OK, minor contusions - you gotta show something), a co-lead's casual attitude of "I'll rescue the female just as soon as I finish my drink...oh, all right, what the hell..."), a bad guy with a pet snake, and so on. I hope it finds its true audience soon. I've subscribed to your TH-cam channel so as to keep up.
enjoyed watching it.. cinematography photgraphy casting sound design all good mixed together. what lens did you use? ML is amazing .......thx for sharing
To be honest, minus a few things here and there I personally would like to see a full length with a decent budget and enough time of course. Plus Fray hot as hell and kicked some ass.
Positive side - Big effort to get the audience into a known story line. Negative - No background information leading into the scene nor characters. Fighting scene, could have been either longer and more fist fighting or shorter if everybody has guns. or fists and as soon as any side begin to lose, then the gun start to pull out. or a hand granade and everybody dies. Positive again - characters are played by good looking actors or not so depending on what side of the line they are. Anyways. even though it is not a great short clip, i vote for a like for keeping the sci-fi short film movement alive. Note, put a bit of science or factual in the clip, that makes SciFi movies great, like a plain drama as First Signal
Very interesting! Good blocking and framing, decent cinematography, sound design and a curious script. My thanks to all involved in your 'little no budget sci-fi short film'. It's refreshing to see what new talent can create outside of the mainstream. I sense this is not the last we'll see of Fray? Have you considered crowdfunding for future projects? I've worked as a support actor on various low budget projects. medium budget TV shows and films and high budget Hollywood trash (well I have to make a living and I have bills to pay), but I always prefer working with a smaller, dedicated crew with a vision. Good luck to you all.
Well it's some of the worst dialogue I've heard in a while. The acting I think suffered because of the horrible dialogue. The rest, directing, cinematography, action, editing, etc. was fine. I would say Mikko Lopponen (who wore many hats in this short film) should try directing some things he did not write. Good films start with good stories and good writing, and that is where this one went bad. Otherwise I think it could have been good with a better blueprint to work from. I say this because I think I see potential in Lopponen's directing abilities (and even the other hats he wore), just not as a writer. Not trying to be mean, but I watch a LOT of films my whole life and tons of shorts since TH-cam explosion, and am very detailed so I try to separate what's being done. I see a short film that suffered because of writing...fix the blueprint and I think you end up with something much better!!
Worst dialog...Really? Compared to what may I ask? I suppose predator 1 (w/Arnold) was some kind of language masterpiece??? This SciFi short is amazing and values the unspoken meaning of a thing. Old-school. OG. Timeless.
It's obvious. Post-apocalyptic planet other than Earth with advanced technology and power sources. They operate an underground clandestine group of 2-3 people doing dirty work. Like traders in the black market.
This was brilliant. It reminded me of comics I read growing up like Strontium Dog, and other 2000 AD sci-fi steampunk comics. The acting was better than some of the people here moan about, I mean if you want bad acting go watch Arrow, some of the actors in Arrow that play the villains need acting classes.
Crowdfunding is illegal in Finland. They will need to get a foreign agent to handle the funding and then cotract with them for production to move funds, legacy laws and paranoia rule in Finland. I liked the short and would gladly watch more. Redubbing it with better flow would ramp it up a lot.
Kalle Pihlajasaari. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware that was the case in Finland. Please excuse my ignorance. Might it be possible to register a Finnish production company outside of Finland, perhaps?
Hey Kalle! Crowdfunding is not illegal IF you sell a product. So if we basically sell a dvd or a downloadable link (for a future download) then it's legal. Just giving money without anything in return is illegal (for example a lot of crowdfunding projects have these "one dollar for special thanks" parts that are illegal here). It's a pretty weird law. There's a finish crowdfunding site Mesenaatti that seems to still be up properly. P.S Hei, toinen suomalainen!
If acting consisted of delivering all your lines very slowly and in an unemotional monotone, these people would all deserve Oscars.
This reminds me of an early D&D game. The players enter a bar just on the edge of the wastelands. They don't know each other. For some reason, a fight breaks out, and they end up helping each other out. Afterward, they head out together to start their life of adventures together.
Soooo like I'm watching almost every day. IJS....the synchronicity of it all. BRILLIANT JOB AGAIN, GUYS!!!!
This was great. Star Wars meets For A Few Dollars More. Love to see a full length film with these characters in it.
This was great! I hope to see a sequel. Really liked the personalities of Alex and Fray. Wonderful film.
Thanks Jason! Yay someone liked our film :) !
I second that!
Yes, more please.
Looks like a beginning of great friendship :) I want MORE!
Thanks Krzysztof! We'll try to make more!
Krzysztof Sokołowski .u go to bed with that nams
I agree, needs a series?
Very nice, great set, costume design and casting. Can’t wait to see more from you.
Well done, me likey, definitely a nod to heavy metal mag....perfect 🤩
Thx for posting. Steampunk is cool! Really just caught on. Reminds me of Heavy Metal magazine. I would like to enjoy more of Fray! 👍👍
True talent. I masterpiece that today would be viewed as possibly outdated. However, man respect man. This SciFi short is a diamond in the rough.
I would like to see more of this crew. Pirates of the Caribbean meets Guardians of the Galaxy.
Haha, I don't know if we're there yet but thanks!
The set and lighting for that bar was top notch. Thanks for posting.
thanks :)
That was awesome! What a rush! I'm instantly a fan!
Yay!
Wonderful! I kept thinking to myself "there's something about their voices - was it dubbed?"
Then I see you're from Finland. Its just the way they speak English.
Its a pity the first one wasn't longer. I find myself wondering what Fray and her partner will get up to next.
Thank you so much for sharing, and here's to your continued work.
Hey thanks! Yeah we did some horrible adr/dub all over it haha ;)
Great video, I was left wanting more episodes.
Thanks!
Loved it.
No matter the rougher parts, overall I enjoyed this.
❤️
8:35 "What the hell is this?"
"What?"
-Gestures to everything
This has real potential, but also needs a lot of work. I hope you produce more episodes and make each one better than the last. You know what needs to be improved.
Nice story. With a lot of the junk that is being created today on mainstream television this is a refreshing story. Would like to see more of this!
Thanks Tim, we'll do more!
Tim Favreau. Do I spy a Farscape fan?
Pyhät tulipallot! 2014 ?! Toivon, että olet työskennellyt jatko-osan parissa, koska TÄMÄ on kuuma ominaisuus ja ansaitsee sarjan ja / tai pitkäkestoisen elokuvan. PARAS lyhyt mitä olen nähnyt kuukausina. Bravo!
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Holy fireballs! 2014?! I hope you've been working on a "sequel", because THIS is a hot property and deserves a series and/or a feature-length movie. BEST short I've seen in months. Bravo!
Kiitokset!
@@hmcindie
Olet tervetullut ja onnea!
"Congratulations on graduating Villainous Boss Antagonist School. Here is your complimentary huge snake. Wear it with pride."
Amazing cinematography and lighting!! well done, liked and subbed ;)
Thanks! subbed back :)
I would totally watch this as a series
Waoo!. This is excelent. I love the ending sound tracks where can I download it.
SISU!! That was a lot of fun! Please make more. Great english language usage- exotic, cool and tough. And Fray: yowza!! Cheers!
Thanks ;)
I would like to see this one as a series or a movie.
This would be a great series!
I appreciated it, i think it's not for everyone, i didn't understand really the whole context, but it seems that the important point was the new relationship they were building each other.
Thanks!
Nice, very cool looking forward to seeing more
This has great potential. I wouldn’t classify it as steampunk, though.
Great job guys. I love it
Great film. Would like to see more. Thanks.
Wish someone would make a full length movie.
great short film, It kept my interest right through
I want to see more episodes of this. I want to see more of this chick and I want to know more about her relationship with her backup in the bar.
Hey thanks!
Loved it! Nice work.
Loved it! Main characters have chemistry and liked the guys and girls acting even though it was short. I really liked the action scenes and bet if it had a great script it could be really great! I’d love to see something else made
Amazing sci-fi simule...enjoyable
Enjoyed it! :) A little slow, but SUCH potential. Hope to see more of FRAY. Thanks
Is this a "proof of concept" or a pilot for something potentially bigger? Previous comments on the cardboard acting are spot on, but if it got commissioned, a good director would kick them into touch. The setting, and writing are pretty good though, straight out of a comic. It left me wanting to see the next episode(s)!
Hey, sorry for taking a while to answer. It was originally thought of as a "proof of concept" but just became a too-long-short. Proof-of-concepts are usually really short, like one minute and just mostly show shots.
Kinda reminds me of FireFly!! I was hoping he would say "but at least I got the money" and show her the pouch the snake guy put on the table.
Thank you for putting this out. It was a lot of work from the crew and the actors. You did really well, considering it was no/low budget, and that it was 7 years ago... The ADR... I, personally would have preferred the dialog be natural, native, with subtitles. Cut out some of stuff that doesn't add to the story, like the glass looking and booze sloshing at 6:02. Add some diegetic sounds, even if you have to use on-set microphones.
Thanks!
Bwahaha just watched this again for the first time in a couple of years. Being involved in this project is one of my favorites memories from my time in Finland. Could the acting have been better? Sure. Dialogue? Most def! But this is an amazing project, with a great crew. And I mean, c'mon, set design, editing, overall production value! Thanks so much @hmcindie for everything!
PS- I'm one of the actors with the charisma of a wet paper bag, as one of the haters below described us. Lol. That shit is funny!!!
Oh yeah, we had a damn blast making this one!
@@hmcindie Is it odd that I find the hater comments hilarious? Reminds me of celebrities reading mean tweets...
@@aporter Oh yes!
I Loved this Short Movie.
Very enjoyable! Many a good friendship has started over a bar fight.
rabbit I hate watching a good short that I can't continue, pretty good boys
Pamela Roy thanks pam, we tried!
I shocked myself and enjoyed this acting a bit hammy but would make a great series xx
Great characters, great short!
Thanks Kenneth!
Lots of fun to watch.
Great movie. All its faults are what made it special. When you guys make the next one don't change a thing!!! 10/10
Thanks Mijia!
Loved this.
STEAMPUNK ?
saw only punk, but have some good moments with fails mostly, that was fun
I think the showdown scene would have been more convincing if the heroine actress had been directed to act just a bit uptight or a tad worried instead of just matter of fact as if no risk was involved, but overall I could feel myself getting sucked into it all. A worthy effort to be sure. Wish I could have been a part of it. Thanks for sharing it.
Thanks Joseph! Yeah my directing was a bit weak in some scenes.
Good movie. I loved the way his gun blew up on him. Well they got thrown out of the bar with nothing for their efforts. Love the way she just gets up the spunk to go on and try something else. I wonder if she will ever get her money?
Brilliant. Another fantastically grim work from Finland, where the Soviet Union is always just next door.
This was so lit! Y'all should put that outro track on soundcloud or something. Would've liked to see a few vampires getting dusted but loved your style nonetheless. :) Thank you for coming through when LURK didn't -_-
Hey thanks buddy! I'll ask our composer to put up that track!
Sparky Smith I commented on cuz I really liked it thank you bye bye
Hey dude! I know this is 3 years old, but I'm actually remastering the soundtrack and releasing it under my name in Spotify soon.
i used vic vapor rub on my nail and yes it is growing out, back to a healthy nail, used it every night
You've got something decent here. Hope you get the funding to progress this to a higher level.
Enjoyed the short,looking to see the full length soon?
Hey james, hopefully! It might be more likely though that we will continue Eliza or something in that vain, our more action oriented style.
James Conner can't wait to see the whole thing thank you bye bye
Really like this concept you should make more plenty for you to build on could be a good series
Lots of various types and scenes... a learning process
Nice. I'd say more on the sci-fi side than steampunk, but nothing wrong with that. It'd be a good pilot for a series or teaser for a feature. An interesting world. If there was more, I'd watch it.
Not to bad. Hope they will bring us more
I'll try making more!
Great job guys, if this had been a full lenght film I would have watched the whole thing. The voice dubbing was a little bad, but the cinematography more than made up for it. Keep it up, I want more!
Awesome to hear Kybo!
Very funny in a delightfully gritty, ultra camp sort of way! Sergio Leone would be proud. Well, hey, my opinion. 'The Good, The Bad, and the Really, Really Ugly' in space with a female lead. Could be a success on the big screen if promoted correctly. A potential cult favorite. Try Kickstarter!
Hey thanks!
That'll be $5, please. [ : - Q ]
Seriously, I look forward to the future adventures of...
I can't see how others missed the humor. Black humor is hard for people to catch sometimes, but when one sees someone drinking out of a bottle with a skull and crossbones on it, a knock-em-down, drag-em-out fight where everyone's none the worse at the end (OK, minor contusions - you gotta show something), a co-lead's casual attitude of "I'll rescue the female just as soon as I finish my drink...oh, all right, what the hell..."), a bad guy with a pet snake, and so on.
I hope it finds its true audience soon. I've subscribed to your TH-cam channel so as to keep up.
Moody, Bladerunnerish, very entertaining.....and good soundtrack....Do some more!
Thanks!
enjoyed watching it.. cinematography photgraphy casting sound design all good mixed together. what lens did you use? ML is amazing .......thx for sharing
Konsta Pot thanks! I used a 200mm f2.8 on the closeups of people talking. Also used a 100mm f2.8, 24-74 2.8 and a 20mm 1.8.
Nice team....I’d love to see more
for her it was a land of opportunity
If you made this film....The possibilities would be endless. What is stopping you?
To be honest, minus a few things here and there I personally would like to see a full length with a decent budget and enough time of course. Plus Fray hot as hell and kicked some ass.
thanks a bunch!
This had a lot of potential if not for the stale lines for the characters.
best sci fi short film
Positive side - Big effort to get the audience into a known story line. Negative - No background information leading into the scene nor characters. Fighting scene, could have been either longer and more fist fighting or shorter if everybody has guns. or fists and as soon as any side begin to lose, then the gun start to pull out. or a hand granade and everybody dies. Positive again - characters are played by good looking actors or not so depending on what side of the line they are. Anyways. even though it is not a great short clip, i vote for a like for keeping the sci-fi short film movement alive. Note, put a bit of science or factual in the clip, that makes SciFi movies great, like a plain drama as First Signal
Very interesting! Good blocking and framing, decent cinematography, sound design and a curious script. My thanks to all involved in your 'little no budget sci-fi short film'. It's refreshing to see what new talent can create outside of the mainstream. I sense this is not the last we'll see of Fray? Have you considered crowdfunding for future projects? I've worked as a support actor on various low budget projects. medium budget TV shows and films and high budget Hollywood trash (well I have to make a living and I have bills to pay), but I always prefer working with a smaller, dedicated crew with a vision. Good luck to you all.
Hey landscape detective! Thanks for your comments! Yeah, I've thought about crowdfunding but I feel that we still have to improve before going there!
Well it's some of the worst dialogue I've heard in a while. The acting I think suffered because of the horrible dialogue. The rest, directing, cinematography, action, editing, etc. was fine. I would say Mikko Lopponen (who wore many hats in this short film) should try directing some things he did not write. Good films start with good stories and good writing, and that is where this one went bad. Otherwise I think it could have been good with a better blueprint to work from. I say this because I think I see potential in Lopponen's directing abilities (and even the other hats he wore), just not as a writer. Not trying to be mean, but I watch a LOT of films my whole life and tons of shorts since TH-cam explosion, and am very detailed so I try to separate what's being done. I see a short film that suffered because of writing...fix the blueprint and I think you end up with something much better!!
Worst dialog...Really? Compared to what may I ask? I suppose predator 1 (w/Arnold) was some kind of language masterpiece??? This SciFi short is amazing and values the unspoken meaning of a thing. Old-school. OG. Timeless.
@@vegasveteran6308 what’s wrong with “get to the choppa “
Good movie. Hope there will be more
Loved it. Nice and gritty.
Late thanks Alysson!
Any more tales from this world in the pipeline?
Yes, though it will probably we a bit different (we will make some changes to everything)
Good stuff!
... & ´ still remember that "Weapon -Fiasco" !
But it was in the "Old-City", damned it. !
15:30 "Im in, all three inches. Cant you tell?"
Cool, that was really good.
Thanks David!
I have no idea what any of this is about, and nor do the actors as far as I could tell.
It's obvious. Post-apocalyptic planet other than Earth with advanced technology and power sources. They operate an underground clandestine group of 2-3 people doing dirty work. Like traders in the black market.
"Give me a drink, the usual". Are you kidding? And of course a worm! I'm wondering now how many cliches are going to be in this movie!
Awsome... Epic wonderland
I enjoyed it, thanks 👍🏻
Very cool! I was hoping she got her item back during the fight. :D
Thanks Oscar! Originally that part was a deleted scene but I figured that yeah, we need to show it.
Not bad!!!!! Give us more!!!!
please do another one....i like Fray.....i want more
Thanks Lucky, we'll try!
Cool little short. I think the music competed with the dialogue a bit. But, I liked the cinematography and graded look.
Thanks VFX Todd! Cinematography and the grade is I think our best asset here.
The villain was awesome !
I was captivated with this flick. Lots of action. The music especially at the end of the video is awesome. What's the name of the tune?
Hey thanks! The composer hasn't released the tune to the world yet.
I'm releasing this ost (too) soon, it can be found in Spotify in the future under my name. :D
"Is it dangerous?" xD
Great concept. Steampunk is an awesome universe. This is an effort that doesn't make it somehow.
Enjoyed it. End left for more episodes. have the actors work together more and tighten the script and youv'e got a series. Goodluck.. :)
Thanks for comment Robert! Luck is needed :)
This was brilliant. It reminded me of comics I read growing up like Strontium Dog, and other 2000 AD sci-fi steampunk comics. The acting was better than some of the people here moan about, I mean if you want bad acting go watch Arrow, some of the actors in Arrow that play the villains need acting classes.
Thanks a bunch!!
Cool ! Anymore of this Fray story line ?
I've written a huge ass storyline though how I can get that forwards is anybodys guess!
Crowdfunding? I'm not rich but I'd be willing to put up some money and I'm sure others here would be willing to help as well.
Crowdfunding is illegal in Finland. They will need to get a foreign agent to handle the funding and then cotract with them for production to move funds, legacy laws and paranoia rule in Finland.
I liked the short and would gladly watch more. Redubbing it with better flow would ramp it up a lot.
Kalle Pihlajasaari. Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware that was the case in Finland. Please excuse my ignorance. Might it be possible to register a Finnish production company outside of Finland, perhaps?
Hey Kalle! Crowdfunding is not illegal IF you sell a product. So if we basically sell a dvd or a downloadable link (for a future download) then it's legal. Just giving money without anything in return is illegal (for example a lot of crowdfunding projects have these "one dollar for special thanks" parts that are illegal here). It's a pretty weird law. There's a finish crowdfunding site Mesenaatti that seems to still be up properly. P.S Hei, toinen suomalainen!
Good un its class.. worth the time.
pretty cool
kept my attention.
no criticism here I appreciate all art.
thanks. great flick
thanks ablaz x! have a great day!
I like this.