Every once in a while, a film comes along that proves you don’t need a big budget to get a good result. Gareth Edwards did it to spectacular effect with Monsters, launching a career that has seen Edwards return this year with his epic blockbuster follow-up, Godzilla.
The sci-fi genre is one of the hardest to pull off on a low budget, largely because of the visual effects concerns. In spite of the obstacles facing him, however, New Zealand director Ferand Peek had an idea and saw it through to completion, resulting in the sci-fi short, Mis-drop.
300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary’s drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
Elliot Travers stars as the soldier in the lead, joined by Maria Walker, Larry Rew, and Joseph Sherman-Mendez.
Peek is firing on all cylinders here,...
The sci-fi genre is one of the hardest to pull off on a low budget, largely because of the visual effects concerns. In spite of the obstacles facing him, however, New Zealand director Ferand Peek had an idea and saw it through to completion, resulting in the sci-fi short, Mis-drop.
300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary’s drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
Elliot Travers stars as the soldier in the lead, joined by Maria Walker, Larry Rew, and Joseph Sherman-Mendez.
Peek is firing on all cylinders here,...
- 6/2/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Why Watch? Almost the entire runtime of this absolutely fantastic short film from Ferand Peek is dominated by the face of a Private on his first mission to a hostile planet war zone. He’s hazed by the old hats in the battalion, attempts a little ill-advised romance with an officer and does the futuristic sci-fi version of a para jump all while we watch his reactions and a fraction of the action via the glare on his protective gear. Mis-drop is a mastery of not showing instead of telling. The plot is as thick as it needs to be (even bearing the weight of an ounce of character development), and while the story is told through sound design and reaction shots, the visuals are absolutely not surrendered or forgotten about. It’s a generic science fiction warfare world, but it’s fully realized through impressive CGI landscapes and, of course, an...
- 5/26/2014
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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