Mars Express | Something Secret Steers Us (Short)

Описание: This is a montage/compilation edit of a movie I really love, that being Mars Express. This one is a vertically formatted version for YouTube Shorts.

I really liked the animation style of this movie, and I enjoyed the world and themes it explores. I thought I could put something together using some ambient electronic music for a neat result.

The song I used is "Something Secret Steers Us" by Kelly Bailey for the video game Half-Life 2, created by Valve. However, I am aware that this music track is essentially the same as "Nuclear Mission Jam" from Valve's Half-Life 1, also composed by Kelly Bailey. I opted to use the sequel's music since after giving it a close listen, the sequel's track seems to feel a bit larger and less compressed, so I used that one. Either way, I still love both versions so much and was very happy to use it in this project.

I kept the line of dialogue at the start of this video in its native French language, hoping to stay true to the original vision of the movie. I did paint out some contours on the red android at 0:37 to try to avoid any community guideline issues.

All footage present here is from the Blu-ray disc of the film. I am still in the process of learning better footage ripping, encoding practices, and file conversions, as well as trying some subtle color grade to tweak shots as I would like, so I apologize if there are any compression issues or other visual discrepancies. Please let me know if so.

I am a big fan of how this turned out, and I hope you all like it as well. I think this movie deserves more appreciation, so I urge you to check it out if you haven't!

"Something Secret Steers Us" by Kelly Bailey & Valve:    • Something Secret Steers Us  

"Nuclear Mission Jam" by Kelly Bailey & Valve:    • Nuclear Mission Jam  

Mars Express (2023): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26915336

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