Freeman’s Days – amateur fan film, whose action takes place completely in the universe Half-Life 2 and, more or less, goes according to the scenario of the same. However, we start even a little earlier – not with greeting G-Mana And not from the train to City 17, And from the explosion Black Mesa, Well, fans remember.
All action will be divided into days (read, series). Accordingly, the first day is Freeman arrival in City 17, Meeting from Barney, the escape from the combines and ends with acquaintance with the Metrokopi discharger in the attic of one of the houses. Well, you remember, then Alex … and t.D. How many episodes are enough for us – no one knows while we are working on the first, but judging by the fact that in six months we have not lost the initial fuse and there is not only a desire to do this, but also to do it well … in short, time will tell.
Hello Andrey, you can tell us a little about yourself, and about your colleague Roman. As they say, the country should know its heroes!
Andrey Mankevich, 1976. After the institute, he worked a couple of years as a layout of newspapers and magazines, then, having learned, first switched to the installation of programs on TV, and then, with the study of the iron and software base, began to engage in post-production, 3D graphics and advertising. Than I have been living for more than 10 years. Married, grown daughter, I am engaged in photography (mainly macro), tourism (water and speleo), collecting butterflies.
Roman Male, Born in 1977. I started working in print media, for the past 10 years I have been working in the field of advertising and design for television. I actively study post -production special effects. I am fond of music.
We have known each other, since the late 90s, we worked together both in newspapers and in
various offices producing video products on the air. We are currently working at the television and radio company "Nika TV", I am a technical editor, novel – director, designer.
How the idea of creating Freeman’s Days?
Having knowledge of production, minimal opportunities and a lot of desire ..
To begin with, they took the camera, removed right in the courtyard of the television company the turn from left to right, then added a strider there and an Hammer was blown up on the outskirts. And it seemed to us then that it was not bad … And which game – this question did not even stand – after all Half-Life was the first game that gave rise to t.n. "Kinematographic" games where the plot and the atmosphere are in the first place. The second part is probably because there are more open and various locations. Yes, it is more difficult to show, but it’s more interesting to watch than the corridors of the first part … although in the first Xen … I don’t know, they decided the second.
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How your loved ones and friends relate to your work?
We do not interfere – as for harmless fun. Well, many people twist a finger at the temple – adult uncles, and everyone plays in the war … my daughter “Papino movie likes!"
Whether the previous ones have influenced you, unfortunately not completed work such as Escape from City-17: Part One, Beond Black Mesa, East Accident, if so, how?
Undoubtedly, some of the above works made us increase the quality bar and study, study and study every time. Escape from City-17 managed to convey the atmosphere of the original game closer and we will try to achieve a similar result.
In your work you will use sounds from the original game?
Yes, sure. In addition to them, sounds from profiles will be used. libraries used in the voice of films, trailers and teaser. Here we are talking about various packages – both for voicing noise and sounds, and musical substrates. Plus I really want to bloom the game purely Russian color. Suppose we come to the base of the rebels, and there he plays from the receiver IN. Tsoi, year 1985, "Blood group" or "Wait, don’t leave …". But here it is important not to cross the line behind which this will turn into a kitsch, into cranberries.
By the way, there is already one such stroke – after flying around the camera City 17 We see that the camera stops on the building, because of which the citadel is clearly visible. On this building the inscription – Borzhch. Those who read "Picnic on the side of the road" Strugatsky will appreciate and smile quietly, for the rest let it be like "Cranberry", not correctly written by Cyrillic, something like "KhSSG" from the square after the station.
The game has very memorable weapons, which we can see in the film?
All original weapons will be postponed from the game. T.e. We will have to do it with our own hands. Or order somewhere. This applies only to fantastic weapons, t.To. The game also uses weapons that really exist and are in service. Speech about H&K USP .45 Match And Mp7 mp7a1. In this case, we will look for the opportunity to buy, rent, and t.D. Straikeball copies.
Having polystyle some forums often saw messages in which fans offered you their help, what do you think about this, whether someone can take part in the shooting?
If people live nearby from Kaluga And they can really help us with something-welcome! Thus, we agreed with the Kaluga Association of Parkuru. There we found an expert on Kaluga roofs and an understudy for difficult tricks. But this is about this a little later. Again, if we need a crowd – we will definitely throw a cry among people who know about us and support our undertaking.
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Andrey, Roman and two light operators- Arkady And Dmitry. A separate line are sympathetic, performing roles and simply indifferent.
The question that worries many, how work on the trailer is moving, and the first episode?
Not as fast as we ourselves would like. In the last month, they were faced with a lot of technical problems. However, the trailer is in work and will be released more in February. Regarding the first episode, to call the exact dates, I think it’s not worth it. The production process is not very predictable for us. We will be a classic phrase so far "When will it be ready". One way or another, follow the news on our blog.
Musical accompaniment, whether it will be written specifically for the film, or will use the soundtrack of the game?
There will be a compilation of well -known things that are part of the soundtrack, mainly Ambient, and more suitable for a specific picture of sounds. If this is a question about the availability of a full -time composer, then this is not yet. And the sounding of the picture will happen only before the release of the film – there is still quite a lot of time.
What can you say now about the episodes with the pursuit of the helicopter behind the boat, and trips to the sandy bugs?
We can talk not even about these episodes, but about the beginning "Day One" – We want to show at the beginning how Barney takes a handful of scientists from a jeep Black Mesa seconds before the explosion. So all this will certainly be. Now we are trying to master the helicopter management in a virtual, set space by us.
Whether we will see headcrabs and zombies, tell us more.
Certainly! Where without them! Having seen enough of amazingly terrible work on Cosplay.Com and similar sites we will make maximum efforts to create really believable terribly repulsive creatures, and not ridiculous-wisdom.
Do not forget to visit the official project blog Freeman’s Days – FreemansDays.Blogspot.com, on which you can always find the latest project news and photos.
– How many episodes are planned?
– to answer exactly this question is very difficult. Everything will depend on the fact that it will turn out with the first episode. If the people like it, then we will try to cover all the events of the original Half-Life 2. Well, if it comes out lumpy, you yourself understand … Some fans expect almost a class of class from us and by Hollywood standards. Friends! We ourselves would be happy to create something that Bay and Cameron would be sour. But we do not have a budget of 200 million. Green, there are no technologies that these monsters possess, and a staff of 1,500 people. In the end, there is no just experience. But we will try, study by mistakes and go to our goal!
– What will be the view in the film? From the first or third person?
– All the same, this is a movie, friends. Therefore, the view from the third person. Although we will introduce a couple of moments from the first. So to speak for communication with the original source.
-You will have Alex, Kleiner, G-Man, etc. in your film.?
– We will have all the key characters. So far we do not plan to "cut" anyone. Moreover. Some characters from the game that we skipped along the passage, not paying special attention to them, we will receive more detailed roles and interesting plot inters. There will also be moments from the category "What happened next". I’ll try to explain. Remember that moment in the game when Gordon first receives a mount from Barney’s hands, and runs towards railway tracks? But what happened at this moment in the laboratory, where Barney actually with a Kleiner remained and remained? Oh yeah! We know! There was this … However, we will not run so far.
– Will there be references to the first part?
– Undoubtedly! We have already come up with two. One will be right at the very beginning of the first episode, so to speak the connecting link. The second a little later. Which ones we will not say. You will see for yourself.
-Why did you decide to make a fan film on the second part, and not on the first?
– As it turned out by itself. The plot is more suitable for cinema. Colorful characters. And in terms of scenery it is easier to work. The first part was all in underground laboratories, which is much more difficult for us to technically reproduce. Although…. Like George Lucas, a similar question was asked why he began the Saga Star Wars from the fourth episode? What it then resulted in, everyone knows very well. So … well, they understood the hint? But this is still a very distant theory.
Answers to questions about Tizer
… I immediately have a lot of questions about the exit time … You can name the approximate exit time, or at least the approximate percentage of the work performed?
… how many material is shot? In Tizer, approximately what percentage was used? How much time spent on post -proceedings and installation of a teaser?
… yes, I am interested in the too how many of it is shot and what is missing in general words if the secret behind seven seven
I have not yet begun to start the installation and rendering of the rest
For installation "Day One" At the moment, about 40-50% of the necessary material has been shot. But, I’m afraid that this figure will not tell you about – the fact is that with compose of the material, we, in our ignorance, often encounter the need to shoot certain scenes, with other lights, from other angles. Be that as it may, we still hope to release “Day One” in 2011 and we will try very hard to have time. Well, as far as possible.
The units that were not related to the trailer have begun for a long time, but there are still a lot of personnel that need to be removed in kind for nature. Namely, shots-bindings. And when they are removed – only then we will begin to compose the material of individual episodes. We are talking about penetrations in natural scenery (not CG), combines on the streets and a large piece on the roof – the first, I am not afraid of this word, slaughterhouse with combines.
It took about three days on the teaser of pure time (together, on two computers). This is not given the time for the explication of the teaser, the selection of personnel, the draft installation, etc. Little things. It is also worth considering that about 30-40 percent of the conceived from Tizer was thrown away-they did not have time elementary. We will show all this in promo trailers. Do not ask about the date yet, okay?
… can post a video on some file storage in good quality/resolution so that those who wish can download?
Certainly. We now have about 20 gigabytes (I’m talking about the teaser). In the near future we will deal with all the intricacies of HD coding and pour a teaser into the file storage. The download link, of course, will appear on the blog.
… implausible waving hands during a shootout.
… the last shit with a turn Ala Rambo
… the reversal may be slightly and not realistic, but very effective!
Well, let’s be honest – there are no shootings there! Freeman will grab a gun for a couple of seconds, will not make a single shot and soon farewell to him. Such waving hands will seem to you, I hope, quite natural when you see the scene entirely. There was a lot of doubts about what, whether it is worth putting this frame in a teaser or not. At the end they decided to stick it, realizing that reproaches in the staging and unnaturalness of the picture will fall upon us. And there are pigeons from behind! This is, in the sense, we also love John Wu’s films 😉 In this case, this frame was simply pulled out of the context of the narrative, t.To. It seemed to us rather bright for teaser. That’s all.
… g-man seemed higher
Actor’s growth – 187 cm., Weight – 75 kg.
… how do you feel about the reaction of the people to the teaser? What do you think?
Honestly, we are dumbfounded. We did not expect such a large army of caring, or rather, no, we did not think that people would perceive our craft so seriously. It is after the reaction of people to the teaser that we rethought our approach to production, no more half measures, all the pictures (including the video) we will … uh, let’s say, prepare and lick much longer before showing. The idea has already healed our own life and we are not right to lower anything on the brakes.
Honestly? We are in shock. We will try, damn it, correspond 😉
Thank you!
… will there be shots shown in Tizer to be changed, refinement, or is it the final option.
This is not the final option. Everything will be finalized, because, imagine, the personnel who go on one video one by one must supplement each other, showing the picture of action from different angles, and this is not that the cutting of a teaser. Yes, and the installation rules are completely different here … in short, yes, most likely we will change.
… in what form Gordon finds supplies in your film adaptation
… how do your Freeman drag your five -ton arsenal of weapons with you??
Well, let’s really look at things – it seems to me that the presence of a gun, assault. rifles or shotgun, grenade and ubiquitous mount enough. Yes, both the rocket launcher and snip will occasionally meet. crossbow, but all this in no case implies the constant dragging of the whole arsenal on itself. And collect weapons and ammunition, yes, from corpses, why not?
… True, reload the video, otherwise it is a shame in front of the overseas fans =)
Already reloaded. Copy and tradmak in such a spelling are taken from "Escape from City 17" -Here we do not see the point of changing anything.