MMPR: First Wave Teaser Trailer- A Behind The Scenes Look

We promised a while back that we would deliver a special behind the scenes look at the making of our MMPR: First Wave teaser trailer, and today's the day!  First wave will be a short fan film and since the film itself will only be 7-10 minutes, we wanted to keep the teaser trailer super brief.  So, we shot the background plates for a quick look at the world which Rita Repulsa has sent down her first wave of troops.

We created a small warzone in a junkyard in Clearwater, FL.  We were sure to have our animator. Kevin DeLucia on set so that he could keep a advise us on the best way to get the footage since the Red Ranger himself will be a CGI character (see This Post to learn why we chose to use a CGI character for the teaser instead of live action as it will be in the final film).  The footage was shot on the Red Epic camera in 5K.

*In the true spirit of working without a budget, the behind the scenes footage was shot on a mobile phone, so please forgive any shakiness or lapse in sound quality.

Bringing the Red Ranger to life

For our kick starter campaign, we shot a "pitch" video to help explain our mission and all the details of the project. But we knew that people would want to see what we had in mind, they want a taste of what we're going to create. With that in mind, we shot a teaser trailer.

The teaser trailer is like the film; brief but grand in scope. So we created a small war zone and shot background plates for an epic taste of First Wave. We'll show off some of the behind the scenes footage from that shoot soon, but first let's talk about our hero. 

The scene teases a battle between the Red Ranger and a member of the Putty Patrol. Because there's no funding for the project yet, we had to get creative with this because the Ranger uniform that we have designed will cost about $4,000-$6,000. The choices were to step back and design it a little cheaper or do it the hard way and create our ranger from scratch and we don't like doing things the easy way. 

So we got started creating an entirely computer generated character. It's no secret that this is a grueling and time consuming process. Our graphic artist, Kevin Delucia got started well before we shot the background plates.  

He began sculpting the character and bringing Red into the 3rd dimension. 

We'll reveal the final character design soon! To recieve updates by email about this kick starter project, click here http://mmprfirstwave.launchrock.com