BONUS: “Star Trek: USS Proxima” — J.C.’s childhood fan film, PART 2
September 9, 2008
Filmed in 1992 in a basement with no script, no budget and a borrowed videocamera, two teenagers made a Star Trek fan film. Nearly 10 years later, the footage was edited with music and sound effects, creating this result…
Yesterday, I posted Part One of a preposterously, wonderfully bad Star Trek fan film that me and childhood friend Adam Fisher created 16 years ago. Star Trek: USS Proxima was filmed in about five hours with a bulky VHS video camera in the basement of my childhood home. Adam and I made up the story as we went along, shamelessly (and wittingly) aping the plot of our favorite Trek movie for inspiration.
This footage remained untouched for nearly a decade, but using a video editing app in 2001, I cut out a great many flubbed “lines,” and spliced in sound effects, a soundtrack and “special effects” shots (read: footage from several Trek movies). The result is this video, a slightly less-bad version of the flick. This was the version Adam and I always wanted to make.
Here’s the second part of the movie; expect a blooper reel to drop tomorrow. Among other sundries, that episode features what our “special effects” shots initially looked like. (We pointed our vidcam at a TV screen that played Trek movies).
As with most science-fiction epics, the final act of USS Proxima relies heavily on space battle shots. There’s not as much “acting” in this episode as there is in Part One, but I’m fairly happy with how my 2001 editing turned out. More important, the ending — featuring close-ups of the crew — should make you chuckle.
More to come tomorrow, but for now, enjoy the conclusion of Star Trek: USS Proxima….
–J.C.
Link to Blip.tv version here.
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One more STII allusion, if I may: For a moment, you’ve made us feel young again. Thank you.
Loved it. You guys look so serious in this, just brings a smile and some nostalgia from my own childhood
So COOL!
say, was that keyboard connected to a pc?
I know you just typed gibberish there but that is why you might have invented the source code for windows! You Are Rich:)
Is it just me, or did the helmsman’s voice change in the second half?
In all seriousness, the chalkboard work is really well done!
Thanks again for sharing.
{c}
This episode reminds me of why I am so sad to see Star Trek The Experience leaving the Las Vegas Hilton. So many of us wanted to be part of that world. You guys brought it to your basement.
I see where your intense creativity comes from. Thanks for the glimpse into Hutchins the younger. It endears me to you even more.
Nicely done end titles, too! (There are so many movies I wish had presented photos with the dramatis personae.) I had to chuckle at the cast list, though–you might as well have said:
Adam Fisher
as
The Brass
Chris Hutchins
as
The Help
Peace and long life, dudes.