Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.net
Sep 11, 2026, 11:05 PMTHE UFOs FROM OUTER SPACE!
The only science fiction film which DARES ask the question... what if Martians were Aussies?
Watch it now!
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- Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.netSep 11, 2026, 11:06 PM
Featuring the inimitable @stilgherrian as the Martians' onboard computer, g'day-GPT!
- Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.netSep 11, 2026, 11:12 PM
I'm going to blog about this later, but this is the short film we shot back in May for my birthday. Myself and the my collaborator & star, Martelle, share a birthday. She asked, as she often does, what I wanted to do for our birthday. A shared party maybe?
I said no, we drink with friends all the time. What if, instead, we cajoled our friends into making a film with us? It is, after all, our favourite thing to do.
She thought this was a swell idea, so we came up with the concept, wrote the script, build the props and found fine people for each role within 10 days.
Post took a bit longer, especially as we had to get some audio recording for g'day-GPT and another character, but in the end, it's one of the silliest and most enjoyable things I've worked on.
- Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.netSep 11, 2026, 11:13 PM
Oh, and being it's an Australian parody film, we made sure as much of our kit was Aussie as possible.
Filmed on a Blackmagic 6K Pocket Cinema Camera, and on-set audio recorded on Røde wireless and boom mics. Edited, of course, on Da Vinci Resolve.
- Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.netSep 11, 2026, 11:18 PM
(Okay being completely honest that's just the kit I owned, we didn't go out of our way to be patriotic or anything. But it was amusing to realise the most critical of our tools were all produced by Aussie companies, for this anyway. Australia doesn't normally make anything worth a damn.)
- Elissavampiress@eigenmagic.netSep 11, 2026, 11:53 PM
Probably the most fun I've had shooting a film, honestly.
