Alien Legacy [Fan Short • Squarepusher]

Описание: To complement my essay series on the Alien Trilogy, I made this fan short as an experimental combination of shots, dialogue and themes from all three films.

I have worked with slicing up the salient points of a single film into a 5-10minute short but condensing the many themes of Alien, Aliens and Alien3 was a monumental task. There is just so much good material, so many characters and so many fantastic shots to be used. Nevertheless, I found a track that complemented the films well and provided a platform for fast-paced cutting. The finished short is a rich, dense collection of information split into a variety of sections;

The opening introduction setting the scene; an atmospheric sequence getting us a little deeper into the mystery; an overview of the main characters followed by an introduction to the contamination followed by a 'drop-ship' sequence; fire then the final battle; and finally an ending.

I wanted the war to be extremely fast-pased with some shots only a couple of frames in length so I worked towards this crescendo with a steady increase in intensity. The final part shows a sign-off section ending the film in similar fashion to Alien3 with a final piece of dialogue from Ripley and shots of the artificial world these films, the characters and the monsters inhabited. Hope you enjoy.

Footage © Fox Home Video,
Music by Squarepusher
Edited by James FitzRoy

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