Digital Video - September 2008 - (Page 18) A Human Processing Unit trapped in her cell. The image projected by the screen array depicts what her probe sees on Earth. Below, a preproduction sketch of the scene. INSIDE OUTSOURCE BY STEPHANIE ARGY hen writer-director Dan Trezise set out to make his 12-minute science-fiction film Outsource, he knew he didn’t want to do a stereotypical indie, guerrillastyle short. Trezise, who has worked as a digital compositor on feature projects ranging from The Matrix Revolutions to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou to The Golden Compass, wanted his movie to instead be as close to a full-on Hollywood-style production as he could manage. The resulting film, which cost approximately $180,000, took three days to shoot and three years to post — three years — because every one of the 185 shots in the movie, with a single exception, is a visual effects shot. Outsource (www.outsourcethefilm.com) is set in a futuristic world in which menial tasks are performed by floating robotic probes. Rather than relying on some advanced artificial intelligence, however, the devices are actually controlled by human beings — Human Processing Units — enslaved in a hive-like W structure orbiting Earth. Each HPU is tethered to a a satellite orb that anchors them to the center of their cell. Clasped to their head, it is both their life support and master. The HPUs remotely operate their probes on Earth by their own motions and mental commands. Their linked probes broadcast a POV image back to THIS AMBITIOUS SCI-FI PROJECT SHOWCASES A TOP-NOTCH APPROACH TO PRODUCTION AND POST. 18 dv september 2008 www.dv.com http://www.outsourcethefilm.com http://www.dv.com
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