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Aurora - Steampunk Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2011
- Aurora - Steampunk Short Film.
WINNER - BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM - Comic Con International Independent Film Festival 2013.
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of slave traders, Emerson Marks, captain of the airship 'Aurora', must fight against all odds in order to rescue her.
aurorathefilm.com
Urtext Film Productions ( urtextfilms.com )
in association with
Rough Cut Productions
Produced with a budget of $1800 over a 3 1/2 year period, with a dedicated cast and crew of over 100 people.
Directed by Chris Kellett
Written by Chris Kellett, Jeremy Kelly-Bakker and Jim Hogevonder
Produced by Matthew Salleh
Co-produced by Rose Tucker and Jim Hogevonder
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Yup shot entirely in Adelaide, South Australia. In hindsight it was quite amazing we were able to get such a range of locations, something we didn't fully appreciate at the time. Really glad you enjoyed it, we certainly hope it's not the last time we get to create stories in the Aurora-verse.
You should do a "Kickstarter" to fund for a full theatrical presentation instead of just a short. You could use the short as a teaser to encourage people to donate. Very nice concept but could use a bit more of the steampunk flair. Good story, acting, action and directing. CGI could use a little updating. But all in all the tales of the Aurora would make for a good film or television series. You could also try marketing the concept to one of the streaming services using the short as proof of concept. Good luck with your project and all your future endeavors. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
A great short film. High production, well acted and nice CGI. If these guys get a series I would watch it. A whole story complete with bad guy and a whole world realized. 10 out of ten!
Michael W Agreed!
Thanks for the comment mate. Sword fight choreography is actually something we've since become better versed in with contact through some stunt choreographers we previously didn't have any connection with. Its definitely something we'd look to bring more to in anything else. Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for the kind words guys. Much appreciated! Hope to be able to bring you more on a larger scale next time.
Dude, it was the scale wich prevented this from being any good precisely. Who tf would set out to shoot this kind of story on THIS kind of budget? Lower the ambition next time.
Many of us were in film school too when we started Aurora and could never have anticipated just how steep the learning curve would be and how much time it would take to finish, but we came out of it with some amazing experiences and lasting friendships. I hope your first foray into creative directing is rewarding and enjoyable, despite all the late nights and stress it was always completely worth it.
Thank you! So glad you stumbled on Aurora. It's been fascinating to see how it has struck a chord with some people. From the start our major goal was to make a film for audiences, something fun and adventurous that served no other purpose than to be entertaining.
To hear that for some people we succeeded is heart warming and humbling.
Not having time to properly choreograph the sword fight was definitely one of our major regrets. Considering neither of the actors had ever held a sword they did a wonderful job of picking it up quickly on the day, but good cinematic fights are difficult even with professional crews so it's something we now give a lot more attention to. It's easy to forget how much of a steep learning curve making Aurora was for us.
Cheers for the feedback! CGI was a constant learning process and improvement on skills learnt primarily for this project at the time. We'll blame the director for the music, he was blown away with it so much he couldn't hear it often enough...
Glad you enjoyed it mate. Our goal from the beginning was to make a straight up entertaining adventure movie so we're glad to have ticked so many boxes for you. In terms of getting to know the characters better we sadly had to cut many pages of fun banter and dialogue between the crew in order to keep the story short and concise. If one day we have the chance to expand the Aurora world the relationships between the crew would be one of the most enjoyable things to explore.
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The best compliment we could possibly receive. When starting this out we all said "Lets just make a fun adventure film" so I'm glad we delivered.
Thanks for the kind words. More than happy for you to write subtitles for the film as it can only bring it to more people! Feel free to send us a private message :)
Always so happy to hear that parallel being made. We're all huge fans of Firefly and it was a major influence on us throughout the project. If we were able to capture even a small portion of the magic and adventure of that show then we achieved what we set out to do. As for a sequel there are a number of different adventures we've penned for Emerson Marks and his crew but sadly without proper funding another effort like this would be very hard to do.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support and love of the film, it means a lot to us. That line was completely unscripted and what you don't hear is the director shouting "cut" right before. The man playing Raegon hit James very hard with the shoe so it was an entirely honest response. Those were very fun days to shoot and was all part of the banter and teasing that had been going on all day between the cast and crew.
Amazing production. Even 10 years on.
Well that was a lot of fun! Was it perfect? No. Did it do it's job... that is, entertain me? Absolutely, and then some! It would be fantastic to see more from you guys in the same world.
The whole room full of guys threatening each other with un-cocked flintlock pistols in both hands made me smile :)
Thanks for the kind words. Three and a half years in production on no money can be tough and the kind words are always a nice feeling!
We've been in a dark room, sitting behind computers working on VFX shots... we've released the film and are readjusting to natural light. Hope it was worth the wait :)
Well done .Would have been better if the steampunk was carried over to the costumes .
The costumes were great!
Ребята я в полном восторге! Вы великолепны! Браво! Снимаю шляпу! Очень импонирует стимпанк, очень жаль что в подобном ключе практически нет работ. Думаю что некий пиратский сериал в подобном сейтенге имел бы ошеломляющий успех на экранах обывателей.
Theres something really cool about the steampunk aesthetic that people have been developing in so many different ways. Glad you enjoyed it. We hope to bring you more!
This is a quality film and I can not believe that it only has 129K views. Very well done.
Steampunk, juxipostioning, objects out of their time line,is what the essence of.what steampunks all about. Mixing it all together, giving it a medieval x Victorian x 1900s feel. Plus the heavy flavour of British Victorian Industry .Add women in Saris, slaves in Roman period sackcloth, and somehow it works. I really enjoyed this,I wish there were more adventures, the way live actors and computerised graphics, (I think that's the wording, sorry if wrong.) Worked together shows some serious talent. Thanks.
Beautifully shot, great transitions, and flowed nicely. As an editor and cinematographer, this was very well done.
Steampunk is a genre that will always look cooler and more poetic with animated characters
This was really amazing. The air ships were incredible. I could watch 13 seasons of this.
Obviously the cast and crew on this one are volunteer professionals. It has the refinement and grandeur that costs Hollywood millions to make. One of the biggest reasons why Hollywood hires so many Aussies is because we care more about the craft than being famous. The best of luck to you, and hope to see some bigger projects from you in the future
Entertaining is the best critique we could possible ask for. We were all attending film school when Aurora started and the only things we had been able to work on were mostly dull, low budget dramas. Aurora really had no other motive than to be swashbuckling good fun with sword duels, gunfights and a love story. Just through natural evolution of an idea the final product became far moodier and morally grey than earlier drafts.
The people were fantastic and we had lots of volunteers that were willing to pitch in. The trick was getting people to stay around and be willing to be in multiple parts of the film. I think making sure they're having fun and they're well fed plays a lot into it :P
For that shot we used a mixture of Photoshop to create the matte painting, Maya for the airship and After Effects for the final composite. It's an homage to a shot from Pirates of the Caribbean 3 that Chris the director was a big fan of. It was put together by Jeremy our digital artist who also played James in the film.
Always a pleasure to hear people enjoyed the world building. It was something we discussed a lot, we tried to take the original Star Wars approach to create a world that felt culturally rich, worn and lived-in.
As huge fans of Pirates of the Caribbean, I hope theres room for both :P
Thanks for watching!
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@Steamgunk
Thanks very much! Huge collaboration of over 100 people without whom the film would never have been completed.
I must admit, for such a small budget you made quite an incredible piece of short cinema. Hard to believe this was all done in three and a half years. Here's to hoping for more in the future!
100% True. We were very lucky to have some true Brits in the cast which added a great deal of class and authenticity to our Frontier Steampunk world.
The ship crossing the night sky shot was one of the most beautiful I've seen in a long, long time. And I know the B, S, & T. that it took to do it.
Mr. Larkin, sir, you are DA BOMB!!!! Incredible music!
i soooo agree loved it thankyou Urtext Film Productions Cast and Crew for a well done short Aussie Film
Words can not desribe how much I love this movie. 11/10
This filled a gap in the market that baddly needed filling.
There needs to be more steampunk movies!
Thanks for the write up. It was a huge amount of fun to make and an extraordinary learning experience. For many of us this was the first really ambitious film we'd made outside of university, most of us were still studying at the time. Looking back there are so many things we'd approach differently, but despite the flaws it's wonderful to see it still eliciting such a positive response from people.
Holy.. This is AMAZING! So well done, the envoroments, the story, cast, amazing. Thank you for making this film.
SuperCalifragilisticExpialidocious. Top Notch.This could never be listed as a B film with quality like this.
It's like Firefly meets Pirates of the Caribbean, sprinkled with Final Fantasy!
Simply amazing. Great production design! Very consistent and satisfying. God bless your armorer for overseeing good use of single-shot firearms, and your sound designer for making them sound right! Costume design: fabulous. This is like "Firefly" in an alternate 19th century instead of outer space. Brilliant.
Find a ship. Find a job. Keep your boiler stoked.
Lol
Well done!
I watched all of it now, it deserves a full blown television series.
Some of the best work I have ever seen outside a studio!
This video is *the best* example of realistic sky pirates I have come across. Epic \m/
@navare88
Thanks for the feedback! Everything was shot in South Australia with the generous support of the location owners.
I'm certainly glad I stumbled upon this. Best 30 minutes I've spent in a while! Keep up the great work!
steampunk is an excellent genre in which to work and this film was a great example...
I have been searching for YEARS to find a good steampunk movie that contained good actors and a good plot! This is officially the best! guys you just toped "league of Exraordanary Gentlemen"! Well done!
Whoever the female lead is in the beginning 3rd minute should be a famous Hollywood actress. I don't say that because of her beauty, I say that because her acting ability is very very strong and authentic. I hope to see her in major motion pictures one day.
Sword fight scene needs a little work but OMG I LOVE THIS! the airship scenes are A-MA-ZING! Just plain awesome.
@Missbehave1979
TV is definitely where we would like to go so thanks for the kind words and keep a look out in times to come!
Great movie. Amazing in all areas. Acting, quality of the production, sound, effects, everything was top notch. I compl
Very enjoyable. Some excellent location choices and, in spite of one or two clichéd moments, highly polished. Thank you. You deserve box office type ratings!
I agree with everyone else. Very well done. Characters and story. Quite refreshing. Bravo!!!
Cheers mate. That particular shot was actually quite difficult to track. We used the really clear blue sky on the day as our natural blue screen to put the mansion in which presented its own problems with the extra roto work we had to do to clear the leaves in the foreground, and we had to track pretty much on to the ground and send it back in Z-space which was not a great solution.
he is an mechanic and has a big pipe wrench as his first weapon(17:26) that is soo cool
Excellent. Proof that a good story transcends genre.
Definitely a TV series should be made for steampunk fans
Really enjoyable watch with family on sofa sunday afternoon. Cheers.
@wdcstudios
Thanks for the feedback and checking out the film. The line we try to take is campy or straight, as long as we can give you a bit of a ride and entertain you, we'll take it ;)
Very well made. This should've been on the silver screen.
Great film. Better than Hollywood big budget films.
I would LOVE to see more of this!!! Well done!!!
Congratulations!!! Absolutely brilliant! Well done everyone...
Thank you so much. We still fan-boy over the main character. Peter Rossi did an incredible job playing Emerson and is a hilarious guy in real life. We began this project as students as were many of the volunteers, it was only through everyone's hard work and enthusiasm for their craft that we finished. For the FX make-up the best way to learn is to be out on sets as a volunteer, get as much hands on experience as possible in order to build up a folio, make contacts and collaborate with others.
In the writing we branded Aurora as 'Frontier Steampunk', in our discussions and world building the grand industrial cities definitely do exist, but only the worn and older technology makes it out this far. We were quite influenced at the time by Pirates of the Caribbean and Firefly. The backdrop of something like an industrial Victorian era London is something we'd love to explore one day.
4:57 "That's awful" - "That's business". Most ingenious line I have ever heard. And that is not a joke.
I'm not even a steam punk fan, but I liked this one. In fact, my favorite series Firefly which was canceled, well this short film ranks up there with it. I guess if you think about it, Firefly was somewhat steampunk/sci fi. Either way, I enjoyed this one and I'd watch it if it was a series.
I like to think of Firefly as "spacepunk"
What an entertaining piece. Fabulous production! Bring em on, I loved it
Beautifully done. Romantic and powerful. Great work
That 3 years encompasses the project from the early sketchy idea to the final cinema screening. We were all working or studying full time while Aurora was being made so there were very long breaks between shooting blocks, for instance the prison break and mansion scenes were actually shot a year apart. By the time we wrapped we had shot in 10 different locations, costumed around 90 characters, taught ourselves all the necessary VFX and had a 30 minute original score written. All volunteer work
I get a small Firefly vibe from this one. I like it!
omg so amazing this would make for a great series good job
This is a remarkable story of love. It reminded me of the place where I live in Sautee Nacoochee. The town got its name from two Indians who fell in love and they were warring tribes and forbade them to be together. Both tribes chased them to a mountain top and once captured they threw the the female off the steep cliffs and the the male broke loose from his captors and jumped off the cliff after her. They both died.
The best advice we could give is to find collaborators you enjoy and trust. This film was only possible through huge amounts of volunteer work and shared enthusiasm to make something fun and new. Aurora began with two guys writing in a room and ended with the same two guys wrapping post-prod in a room three years later.
It'll be those friends that'll help you through when the work seems too much, honestly critique your work when it's rubbish and share the stories when you're having a total blast
I do appreciate the time to get us that answer,and must complement that NOTHING here looks like it's from a thrift store or its many equivalent venues, so a job well done there.
As I also said, what's great about such projects is that steampunk does not have that shackle that sci fi and fantasy do, where there are "generic" examples, so you can subtly do whatever however really, and here it definitely pays off. I again thank you for this thoroughly enjoyable film! You are an inspiration.
I appreciate the endeavor, as I know it's not easy to make a film. I got stuck on the oddity of the whole slavery thing. A quick explanation on why a small group was allowed to randomly walk in to a home and grab a married woman would have been helpful.
Great film locations and decent acting made this worthwhile to watch. :)
This is the best short film I've ever seen. I got my fingers crossed for a series!
that was stunning the soundtrack was supurb and the diologe was great i loved it
This is STILL AWESOME in 2022 😃👍👍
Love that one. I wish too there been more steampunk movies out there.. well done job!
I saw it at the Tasma Steampunk Exhibition in Melbourne and really enjoyed it. The visual effects were amazing, but the acting was probably the only let down for me. But otherwise a really enjoyable film :)
This, right here is what we need more of. I loved every minute of it. That such a thing is possible on such a small budget is amazing. If Hollywood were to create quality stuff like this, I would actually begin to get excited about mainstream films again. However, it seems you can only find stuff like this here... and this awesome stuff is given to us free no less, I would happily pay to see this. Take note, Hollywood: This is how you do a movie.
I am desperate for more of Your Stories!! It is incredible!!!
This is really amazing.
The music is brilliant the CGI is very good, especially the mixing of real world and CG together.
The location work is really fantastic.
I am surprised this was only $1800, it looks like you spent a lot more on this, especially consider this is 30 minutes long. Though everyone looks very dedicated, they're all great actors!
I really hope to see more of this, we don't exactly see a lot of for adults science fiction/fantasy film/TV in Australia.
Oh man, I do so WISH I had been able to be part of this. Mr. Larkin, I anxiously await the next feature film you work on.
I love this film, great work! It matches up to thouse million dollar budget films, and maybe more.
Wow I really liked this the acting was pretty exceptional for a web show also. I liked that it had the Steampunk feel but didn't rely on a bunch of silly props.
This really needs to be a series or full lenght film :D Please, keep working, it's really awesome. And these actors are amazing.. I believe them every bloody word...
A bigger compliment could not be given ;)
Awesome! the whole thing had a mix of swashbuckling and 'Firefly' feel to it, both great things. Steampunk needs more films and projects like this to get it out there to the rest of the world.
Great work, I really hope you get more projects running soon, because you have some serious talent at work with this one.
Spectacular! Absolutely gorgeous. Extra kudos for the music!
Well done, Bravo!
Very impressed with the quality of the video for being 10 years old! Amazing work for such a small budget/crew. Of course there are things we would all probably do/want differently. But it sure is one hell of a start!
How does this not have more views, this was great.
I enjoyed working in it.