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Prey Alone - not regarded
as your typical Irish short film! In fact it doesn't even have a priest
as one of the main or supporting characters. No panoramic vistas, no poverty,
misery or guilt and it's not even set in the 1950's. Prey Alone is a high
octane, ball busting, roaring screeming chase movie set somewhere in the
near future in a generic city in the USA. |
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| It uses the latest up to date
digital film techniques but didn't cost a fortune to make. It' is in fact
the first digital home movie. None of the backgrounds even exist - they
were all created in computers. 9 home computers that the directors hooked
up together and arranged to operate like a high end digital TV post production
system. It's a home movie! |
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| Prey alone is almost entirely
digitally created. In fact the only elements of live action in the movie
are the actors and some hand props. Everything else was built in post
production by the film makers. |
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| Writers / Directors Stephen St Leger (a TV commercials director)
and James Mather (a director of photography) have worked as a team on
hundreds of commercials and decided to extend this synergy to the hugely
ambitious concept of directing a movie entirely shot on green screen and
post produced by themselves. They incorporated the green screen technology
and techniques they had experienced over the years shooting TV commercials
and expanded it into a 15-minute high-energy nail biting drama with enormous
effect. The real beauty of this movie is that it's not just an example
of imaginative cinematic techniques, it has a powerful narrative with
a thoroughly satisfying & clever twist in the tale that ties up all
the loose ends and wraps up the experience with a big bow. |
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| Jack Armstrong Independent producer |
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