Forum funded movie short. Hear me out...

I'd be up for that, I've been experimenting with teaching myself to write in Script format...hardest part is REMEMBERING to do so :D

There are tons of shrt movies out there and well made too. My example didn't even have dialogue and didn't need it. Figure if 10,000 members could cough up $10 for a 10 minute short. Not a bad budget for someone who knows how to do it. There might be enough for a profit instead of people doing it "for the sake of the art".

For this, I am just an idea guy. There has to be someone out there who could make it happen.

There has to be an incentive. A budget and good story is a good way to start.

It's a good idea, I agree, and the trail has been blazed by The Animated Story found here in this forum I have to mention in addition. :)

I missed that. Link?

Hell yeah!! That's a great idea.

Have you seen the fan-funded fan-fiction, community made Predator short??? It is superbly done, and shows what dedicated fans can do!!

Predator: Dark Ages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRD8jAk274I

We could get involved in a big old brain-storming session to see what collectively we can come up with!

10,000 members contributing $10 would total up to $100K, or roughly the budget of independent horror film The Void (look it up). I have an idea similar to this, only it involves 300K and a storyboard/screenplay (I should be fully done with it in about a month). I already have the material I need to make the opening credits for a kickstarter. 

Here's the link to the Animated Series
Introducing Alien: Covenant The Unofficial Animated Series!

We need to find out who could do it. then we need to find out how much it would cost and somehow decide. Then we need to decide which story makes the cut. Again, for this, I only have the idea. Members should put feelers out.

DK - I am always interested in aiding in the ongoing fight against the Nothing! :)

We need to decide a story within a time constraint, who can do it and what it would cost. Then we should have a time frame with some oversight. Otherwise we should let the people alone and enjoy what happens imo.

DK - How would we decide these facets of pre-production? :)

Maybe someone else should take the lead?

DK - Hmm...I believe we, each of us, could provide something valuable to this process if we are organized properly. :)

We could totally do a feature-length 'non-canon independent' Alien film for what you are proposing ($100K). A short (I am assuming 21 min) would cost about an eigth of that (around $20k)...

DK - Lovely thought !!

We would probably need to expand our search for the contributors. 10K is a lot. We only average about 127 (rough) online at a time and seem to be familiar users.

However if we accompany it with a Patreon or GoFundMe account and maybe ask the YT audience (sorry if that hurts)

Getting the YT bloggers and any other Film related guys to promote. I would gladly spend a piece of my day in the comments trying to plug it on various sites if it is something we believe is achievable.

Would need to be an intricate long term vision and perhaps voted decisions from members on here?

Could aim to have it done just B4 Awakening drops (If it does but i think it will)

Im willing to help anyways is what im saying

Cool!

Oh and speaking of fan films:         What ever happened to that Newt Alien adventure? The one where Fox asked them not to make it, because it was similar to Alien 5?

How about an animated one? That would make certain things easier. Something like Akira, i know it's an Anime but some are better than live action movies.

OMG that sounds AWESOME! ...I think I'll have a hard time assuaging my husbands predictable fears that I'm giving money to a scam or something, though...

Sorry to be so shameless and self aggrandizing but... IS ANYBODY INTERESTED IN USING ON OF MY STORIES?? :D :D :D I have some ideas for how to adapt one of them for the screen...

Gotta love your Enthusiasm DK ;)

Nice Idea though... i am sure we could all come up with some ideas... i think a alternative would be if anyone who has a lot of figures would be up for a Stop-Motion  Version lol

Like the Robot-Chicken Movies.

I'm sorry to rain on the parade, but I just don't see this working out, unless we have some secret financiers here on Scified that would be willing to foot the bill for what would just be a nonprofit fan film. Not trying to be mean or anything but expecting anything over $500 is really pushing it on a site as niche as this.

I'd love to edit a documentary about the Alien community.

Scified members could send in clips of themselves expressing their fan theories on the Alien franchise, then I could splice in footage from the films and/or animated diagrams.

Thoughts?

@Facehuggers!

Ooooh! Like the Trekkies documentary??? That sounds awesome!

What do you suspect we all look like? Do you think we're all a bunch of kooks? ...Or is that just me? Lol

Tiwaz and Facehuggers! hose are good ideas- interesting how the idea evolves. It definitely is not something that could  drop in say, a month.

@VivisectedEngineer @dk

Yeah! I think a documentary would be the least expensive, yet most effective, form of the movie project.

Even more interesting, maybe ask interviewees to record at the most futuristic location they live near.

Blackwinter-witch The animation short was an interesting look at the Deacon!

IRaptus P:DA was great- I liked better than Predators! Note that huge credits scroll at the end- lots of coordination!

Here’s an avenue of thought. Come September there will be lots of media courses starting at various colleges. Many of these courses require short film projects for students. The thing to check here is who owns the project once it is finished. On the plus side this cuts down costs when needing to access equipment, plus it is easier to network info round the departments of a college campus to see where interest lies, like getting the Students Union bars to put on an Alien night. There are also lots of folks who dress up and are part of larger groups who do security for comic cons.

One question that is on my mind, is who would be the target audience, and on what form of media would they be viewing a short project film on, since this can dictate the cost of production and distribution ?

Batchpool That is a great idea as well.

Seems there are a lot of moving parts to the ideas including mine. Perhaps starting out easier like Facehuggers! might be a good way to test the waters?

A $100K independent non-canon film would totally be doable. It isn't as difficult as it sounds.

sherris, Tiwaz, Im Durp, Facehuggers!, and Batchpool have all brought up very valid hurdles/observations/suggestions and things to consider.

That said- after thinking of Facehugger!'s idea more, it is fun to imagine what we all look/sound like!

Should we maybe get ideas, list and vote on a separate thread? Maybe Admin could sticky it so it wouldn't get buried.

@dk

Yay!

With a documentary, Scified could easily establish itself as a video creating platform; which would inevitably bring attention and support to the more ambitious projects.

Possible points of discussion in documentary:

-Fan theories

     -For example:  "What did you think the Space Jockey was  

       before the prequels?"

-Interpretations of the ALIEN franchise (philosophy)

-Movie theater experiences (relating to ALIEN)

-Dreams about the ALIEN universe

Facehuggers! yes i think your idea is a perfect start to get the ball rolling. It will test how we all work together on here, get the creative idea's flowing, see who is interested in this sort of thing etc. Once we have an established platform we can look at doing a short film or animation next.  This will be a lot of fun!!

Facehuggers! I was ready to PM, but you answered my question. It might be good to have a set of questions for everyone to answer instead of random stuff like "Alien rules dude!!!"

It might be interesting to have something identifying each member as they talk- something like this maybe?

Guys...I was at the mall today, enjoying my summer break, when two of my students spotted me, started yelling my name from across the mall, then ran up to me, apparently to marvel at the fact that teachers continue to exist, even outside of school.

Now I am trying to picture how my students would react if they saw me in an Alien fan documentary. <_<

Some of them once very earnestly warned me that I definitely wouldn't like the rated PG-13 movie "Passengers" because it "has lots of very inappropriate stuff in it".

My students certainly wouldn't peg me for the Alien type.

(From my understanding, the  inappropriate content they feared would disturb me in Passengers includes a character coughing up a small amount of blood and someone saying the word "shit")

Does anyone disagree that a documentary about Forum Members by Facehuggers! would be a good way to start things off before going after more ambitious projects (not that Facehuggers! idea is not ambitious. It will be a lot of work but could be inclusive to anyone willing to participate)?

VivisectedEngineer That is too easy! I will not show my face and have a few disguise ideas in mind heh heh! I suspect others will be more elaborate and distort their voices. There might be some totally fine with showing their real selves. It could be very entertaining to see what members do. BTW the above pic isn't me- it is my thrash hero Gary Holt of Exodus/Slayer.

OK nevermind.                                                  

@dk

Haha, ok, AGREED! A documentary would be awesome and I would love to participate.

MAYBE I will wear a disguise...or maybe I'll just be super sure not to say any swear words in my interview...

And I'll conclude my interview with a little disclaimer to all the middle school kiddos at home, warning them not to watch rated R movies without their parents' permission :P

VivisectedEngineer As a kid, doing things behind parents' backs is part of maturing lol! Remember- the forbidden fruit is the sweetest.