Tempus Temporis - Award Winning Short Film (Post Apocalyptic)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Post Apocalyptic Indy Short film directed, edited, and written by Timothy Hennessey. Shot with a Canon T3i and a Panasonic TM900. This was created all by high schoolers. It was shot in two (long) days. Endless hours editing..... Hope you enjoy! If you have any questions or constructive criticism please feel free to comment!
Winner of "Best Short Film" at The Annual Risen Films Academy Awards. (I know, we awarded it ourselves :D ).
All you that are complaining about props and clothing not fitting the time line obviously don't know how independent movies are made. I'll fill you in, with passion and no money. Use just a tiny bit of the imagination that took to make this and wallah, no complaints just thanks.
If I am watching me, am I watching me?
One of the best yet. Thank you.
Here's another gem that's not yet received nearly enough views that could easily be fleshed out into a feature length film, and might even do much better as a television/web series that would easily draw serious advert dollars for production costs. Good show and break a leg!
I really liked liked this one! Watching this film I never would have guessed it was done by high schoolers! I thought it was a hoot where he ended up, not sure where he started though. Yes, there can be improvements, but show me one, even one professional film that can't use improvements. Give these kids their claps 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 and awards!!! They are well deserved!
Reminds me of English literature class where the teacher wants you to explain some hidden meaning in a symbol and you know you are just making stuff up.
Great Video. I was Surprised to see it was made by High School Students. Very Well thought out & professionally edited. 👍🏼
Good job for a bunch of kids. I don't know about you guys I'm sure there are plenty that could but I couldn't do something like that, that well
Three curiosities:
1) First license ends with letters "VYU"
2) Second plate ends with letters "VAA"
3) Critical note in movie has date of "07-29-2234"
If date converted to similar plate format the 729-VCD
1) 360-VYU (Establishes a circular loop of time with 360)
2) 135-VAA
3) 729-VCD (Just prior to the end of a second 365 day loop with 729)
I could do wonders with this, but one I will do is as follows:
Remove the common letter "V" and use Roman numeral...
VVV=555
The letters in the first ask "WHY YOU?"
The remaining second is 135-AA and responds with "ME? ACE! ACE!"
The remaining letters in the last give up and "CEDE".
YU: First "Y" (why) shortened phonetically to letter "W"
VAA: Temporarily recombined due to redundancy into the (VAA=24) or 24th letter "X"
CD: Last "D" (dee) stands phonetically as letter "D"
New license plate of 555-WXD but knowing my luck it would be something uncannily similar in my life. The original first numbers add up to 1224 for the eve of something. Maybe a gift is in order.
Just watched it with an open mind and in reality, it was fantastic, even the lighting (which was criticised) i say that because i felt the lighting added a sense of the hopelessness of the setting of the times, the whole time travel aspect was quite good because it presented the lead with a possible outcome better than what he currently had so all good... and i liked the simplicity of how time travel was portrayed.
Great job guys! Intriguing.
Not sure why folks are knocking this. It's a lot better than a ton of crappy shorts out there. Acting was taken seriously and good. It's not just some bratpack kids goofing around in camo that we see in other's.
I Got IT without reading the comments first!!!! However, You must stay till the end! Great Job!!!
Im going to get me a Buick because now I know it will last about 200 years or so...
That's exactly what I was thinking 😀
They should have named the year as 2027 or so.
Was thinking the same thing
Yes, His Buick had Survived The Spacecraft/Floating City Blocks Faze of Humanity Really Well!!!
Maybe That's what They Used to get around on the Floating Craft, when that was All the Rage???
I Mean "Back In The Day" 2098.
Give them a break,use some(maybe a lot of) imagination.I would guess there is not much of a budget for this film.
You High Schoolers got some amazing skills!!!! Wowwwww freaking awesome!!!!! Great job 👍🏽
hey really great film. Please csn you tell me how exsctly you added in the destroyed buildings in the background, what programme ect? thanks from the UK
wow...hats off to Timothy Hennessey. This was really nicely polished. It was *very* cleverly crafted considering what he had to use.
It's amazing that in 2187 that 2002 Buick Regal is still running. GO GM
Robert Ray um actually it’s a 1995 Buick Lesabre so
@@ClaytonCavanaughlmfao
The filming in this one is top notch. Beautiful lighting, and the city in the background is awesome. Crap, this is just amazing. Best one yet, guys!
great work in two days
Five major time periods---The first is technically the very last one which is why you don't see anything but hear the gunshot. Therefore, there are 140 charges to the box with five used in this sequence despite not necessarily seeing them used. That helps to explain the license plate beginning with the 135.
Excellent plot thread, and it works. Good short, thanks.
Awards sure come easily these days!
Cool one! Nice loop :-)
Really great, tense and interesting
Disregarding some of the information in the summary, the major scenes seem to take place in Wisconsin or is hinted at various times...
1) Two separate license plate views one on back and one from front with different clues as to the times and measurements as well as location and mindset. One is clearly Wisconsin.
2) View of what appears to be an apocalyptic Milwaukee in background.
3) Georgia Pacific logo on a cardboard box. They have nearby locations in Wisconsin.
4) The small power (see note) towers which may be the ones in Mequon area leading up to a power station (battery in note) in Port Washington.
5) The road view places him between towers just as that area is between Port Washington and Milwaukee. Thus far, the best view seems to be Bonniwell Rd.
6) The note from 07-29-2234 mentions power and some of the key portions of the note are as follows:
"I am progressively becoming more and more sick. I have looked up the symptoms. Radiation (radioactive) poison."
"...become radioactive(?) almost at this point. I have yet to see pre war(power?) life. I hope to have a fruitful life this way."
"All I need is enough power."
"I have located a final piece."
Two vehicles:
Toyota Camry: Based upon trunk design, lights and spoiler the model years can be placed circa 1997-2002. Some pictures and year listings may be incorrect, lies, or based loosely upon registration dates. Most found are of 1997-1999.
Buick LeSabre: A better view of this in the short video is afforded and front design as well as dash design looks like pictures of 1992-1996 with best pics of 1995.
Both in the video are beige/gold light in color and reflections sometimes alter somewhat making them appear silver in certain short views. However, I tend toward the original assessment and the similarity of color lends itself to the plot of the movie.
Loved it, well executed. Hope to see more by this group. With the cameras you had you did an awesome job filming it. I can only imaging what went into the editing process. Again well done.
woooow... is crazy this film humm i liked very much. Congratulation therisenfilms.
The beginning, middle and ending shooting scenes are interesting for the following reasons:
1) The pistol appears to be held in the left hand at the beginning of first scene with a slight change at about 1:48 to 1:50 minutes where it looks like the hand changed and the scene shows the initial small tilt earlier.
2) The scene at 11:11 to 11:13 minutes is clearly a right-handed shot with the weapon pulled from the left waist-line where it was tucked in on the outside of the t-shirt under the pants. The entire clothing is somewhat different as well with blue jeans, white t-shirt, no belt, and patches on right side shoulder of the outer button up short sleeve shirt. The shooter appears more comfortable shooting right-handed to say the least.
3) Last scene from side angle at 16:20 to 16:39 minutes is back to left-handed, no patches on sleeve and what appears to be dark or black t-shirt and possibly loose slacks.
Identifying the weapon is extremely difficult but not impossible. There are dark brown grips, the typical serrations toward rear of slide, etc. However, a brief glimpse of reflective markings in close proximity to the slide stop pin (just barely above and forward) and beginning above the trigger guard leads to the likelihood that it is a M1911A1 U.S. ARMY .45 caliber. The markings were probably highlighted by a film editor perhaps and I don't see others.
The best view is from 11:04 to 11:13 minutes where you can determine the shape and style, the color of the grip, the basic style of the rear sight and slide, the spring cover and grip safety on rear of the grip.
When coupled with the military supplemental charge box, that particular type of weapon makes even more sense. It's just how those items were procured that is unnerving.
Steadicam rigs are cheap and even homemade to stop shakyvision. Run night shots as nightscope and no lighting problems just more tech the guy found. Obviously the car is too new to be 150 years old. And little things like the dude had a haircut and clothes that lasted for a really long time and look nice.
All in all a great job. Now show us chapter two.. continuing the dudes story.
+teachgold We definitely need to invest in a steadicam rig. Shaky cam gives me such a headache after over using it so much!
Thank you for the feedback!
Google "deshaker" which is free software to remove the shakiness from videos. You will find several UA-cams which show examples of the results. It can be a bit intimidating because of the numerous settings but if you persist, you will get surprisingly good results. And of course, you can't beat the price.
This short strikes directly at those having the flawed thinking that in general any potential witnesses will be confused by the similarities and only be able to focus upon a few dissimilarities. If people known among a circle of acquaintances suddenly start introducing individuals with remarkably similar styles, vehicles, clothing, etc. and then start going against those same individuals with remarks like "why do you always blame me or suspect me" etc. then it is time to see to it that pictures are taken and that they are followed. Notifying the legal authorities may not be enough as they should already be aware of it or at least suspect it and they too need to be scrutinized.
I liked the film. Impressed if truly High Schooler's. At times the shaky camera was hard to watch. I was trying to read label on box but scanned camera too fast so I could not read. What that intentional so I could not read the box? And what is a spark plug doing in a time machine? At one point I started to notice the city in the background. Not sure why I missed it in the earlier scenes. Maybe you intentionally brought it into view on later scenes. Now, at first I thought he was going into the future because of date provided, but then read a comment that said you went into past not future, which made better sense. I'll have to watch again. Oh, the black or dark scene change that everyone mentioned, their right its too long, drop it down to a second not two. That's a fast edit change.
Excellent story that held my attention!
brawo dla dźwiękowca( muzyka jest w tym najlepsze) i tyle;)
Nice to know our style of clothes will still be popular in 200 years...and 1990s era Buicks are still on the road?
Not to mention the super long-life gasoline.
The title with the words TEMPUS TEMPORIS has multiple meanings and plays up to and including matching the first plate letters VYU...so I'll start there.
TEMPUS=6 letters
TEMPORIS=8 letters
VYU=68
1) Time Time
2) Time Period
3) Time After Time (pun)
3a) Best of Times Worst of Times
4) Time and Time Again
5) Times Two or Two Times
6) Contemporaneous
7) Temporary Time (pun)
8) Times (simple and elegant)
I prefer the license and circular July link due to the note date and the meaning of Two Times as the minimal definition as most if not all major scenes are indeed repeated and circular in nature. An example is the following:
The largest alleged year is on the note with 2234. At the end he ends up in the smallest year provided which is 2098. That is a 136 year difference or (68 x 2) years. The note itself is dated with the 07-29-2234 so that the month of July is not breached by the note. As mentioned elsewhere the word JULY=68. So, we now have the following connections to the number 68 in a very brief video...
TEMPUS TEMPORIS=68
360-VYU=Circular time measurement ending in VYU=68
(2234-2098)=136 or twice 68
Month on journal note is (07) JULY=68
Roughly 10:09 to 11:30 minutes in a major scene takes place. The murderer is wearing an unbuttoned shirt over a dirty white t-shirt. The patch is honed in on a couple of times...
1) Arced small patch with the word "ANARCHY".
2) Shield patch with a chaos star symbol inside.
Both appear to be professionally made and mostly by machine. Maybe manually directed but not completely hand-made or home-made. Something to think about there.
So many people who created nothing but youtube comments, criticizing someone who creates :\
benny s thank you that's what I'm saying lol
benny s This is one of the better short films, too. They are serious about it. Not a bunch of paintball fruits laughing at the camera.
In addition to the Buick, anyone notice how wooden telephone poles were still standing WITH WIRES? And how the scene with the dead guy is on freshly mowed grass? Great job otherwise guys. In high school I passed notes to girls on paper.
Does the name of this film mean Time and Time Again? Ya know because Tempus means Time in Latin
Careful with that rifle, you might shoot your eye out.
That was not a rifle. It's a Daisy BB gun!
Red Rider😉
So many comments thinking he traveled into the future, pay attention people
yeah totally believable that in 2187 every one will be driving around in 200 years old buicks and hondas... and our heros gun is a lil daisy bb gun with a scope duct taped to it??? yeah.. looked like the future huh hahahahahahaha
The part with the nearly 200 year old fully operational Buick was true science fiction! You should have been paid by GM for that one. Somehow Buicks belong in a post apocalyptic world.
Title should be " my day on magic mushrooms and weed "
Nice haircut for the apocalypse, better than my barber even.
I watched the film but I couldn't make any sense of any of the scenes. Could someone please explain it to me? I really don't like films that are too difficult to figure out. I am a nuclear engineer of 34 years and I am familiar with time dilation effects but this film fails to communicate. What is it about? Just meaningless disconnected scenes with no decipherable meaning or plot. Trying to be too artsy maybe.
Hunting with a daisy bb gun? Scary stuff indeed!
Great acting and sick car
Wow! What is that, a Buick? I'm buying one of those, it'll last a couple hundred years.
I think its just a guy who is trying to figure out a way out of the Post- Apocalyps and into the future. Not bad. I liked it.
He traveled into the past, not the future
Any writer who adds a "duct-taped-scope" to the prop list has obviously never used a scope or a rifle. You would basically be guaranteed to miss every shot.
The movie really wasn't my cup of tea, so I'm gonna write just two constructive comments: 1st) Others already wrote it: That car is still in perfect condition after 200 years? Why did you feel the need for a date at all? One of the unsettling aspects of most post-apocalyptic movies is that you can imagine them just a few years from now. Putting them this far into the future takes away much "scariness". 2nd) Why he goes to find another spark plug doesn't make any sense at all. What was the motivation: "Cool, that thing almost killed me. I have to try that again!"? ;)
I think the dude is packing a BB gun.
The container and/or box (type of military) is perhaps important as well as to where and when it was procured and how some students acquired it. Not that having a type of device allowing time travel is not. I can identify most everything about the box including NSN, UN symbols on back, etc. The box packing location seems to have been modified to reflect a location further than the original. I will skip the NSN for right now...On back is this...
UN---Symbol in circle for testing/certification
4C1/Y37/S/15
USA/DOD/AYD
4C1---Box of natural wood
Y---Medium danger (contents)
37---Max. weight of 37kg (81lbs)
S---Solids (contents)
15---Year of packing (matches video release year)
USA---USA
DOD---Dept. of Defense
AYD---Army Development (more to this and indicates packing location)
On front is the NSN 1320-00-824-0811 and indicates original contents to have been 140 supplementary TNT (type) charges for projectile explosives. The weight is marked as 72lbs. Happy hunting.
Here is an example picture of something similar:
www.bevfitchett.us/army-ammunition/demolition-charges.html
Okay...Interesting premise. Definitely something to work with here. But, need to pull that camera back, stabilize it, faster focus and open it up a stop or two. Guys, get your dads or someone older than 30 to play a character or two. It'll make an amazing difference in story depth. Was this "Memento" driven? Yes, I get that time is being 'shuffled' in the delivery of the story. And yes, I get that the box is some kind of time machine. But we still need a crumb path to follow the plot line.
For a T3i and TM900, there is some pretty good chroma. Did you use a filter? Post-Production? I like the effect!
Dialog was believable. Set organization and layout pretty good. Little things, like sound of a breeze but the blanket on the crate not being moved by it. Holding spark plugs up to the light?? However, I can definitely see that you are working on your ability to tell a story with pure visualization. Nice! You guys should keep at this. The concept has potential.
Grade: C
That ending though.
"My name is Kyle Reese, and I was sent back......"
Well , internal combustion Buick’s will be illegal in about 5 years.....but other than that....well done.
I liked it. The basic equipment has undertones of the post-technological age recovering from the apocalyptic destruction (though the gun and the car were too old-school to be taken too seriously - I've seen some lovely work with repainted Nerf guns, for example). I did appreciate that his past was still our distant(ish) future. It has potential!
The perfect haircuts of the characters was a little distracting, to be honest, but as you said - Highschoolers :)
A lot left to think about. First, as a post-apocalyptic, it veered away from zombies and stayed with men, which I appreciate and I wondered why he didn't shoot at first time. He kept waiting. Regarding lighting, yes! rather dark, but I suspect a reason. I am planning a story and need information, by the way.
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I thought sure that box was gonna be full of bb's and duct tape for the red ryder.
I know the poor focus and bouncy camera is for effect but its too difficult to watch.
So, it's the 22nd century, and he druves a 90's Buick century, sporting a red rider bb gun, with a scope taped to it... well, I'm definately bying a 90's Buick...
George Mcmillan why do kids tape their air rifles bb guns nowadays? I've seen a ton of short films with tape on air rifles.
@@mariataylor4397, I guess they're not smart or handy enough to come up with something better...
That was well done
Not fair to an old man who cannot remember a face when he watches movies. Never know who's with who or did what. LIked it enough tho.
Is it really gonna be like that when I turn 98?
Anyone see the movie called “The Signal”?
awesome man! I don´t understand all the dickheads in the comments... They have no clue what a challenge such a film is. Nice ending as well. Congrats!
A Buick from the mid 1990s?
Where did that ridiculous rifle come from?.
See. All those teenage years playing paint ball instead of getting a university degree and good job really paid off. That's what I told my mum.
Well done...I enjoyed this.
The start of this movie seems to be at least 2036. The end should have been 2298.
Very good😮
There's a lot to like about this film and a few things that would have improved it. Not telling us the specific year would have been a big plus. Overall, really nice work.
Thought you should have had a bit more diversity in the repeat seens, I get what you were going for though and the ending was bad ass. You got a like.
09:56 is AM. 21:56 is PM
I feel like the whole future time travel thing was a bit of a stretch. I don't think it really fit with the setting of the city in decay in the background. Just my opinion. Other than that, the acting was amazing and the audio and visual effects were spot on lads. Good job overall mates.
He traveled into the past, not the future.
Not bad. Well put together.
I watched the whole film hoping it would get better but it never did.
Cool subject Dug it
and yesss.... another post apocalyptic short where everybody is a teenager ! and yes, they all win awards in small time festivals that nobody ever heard about or care about.....
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will do
I didn't get the ending. Can someone explain? I can't handle re-watching that slow tortuous story the second time.
…..RVM45
what i didnt like was the [genre failure of] plentiful gasoline to power a vehicle 150+ years old. looking pristine with tires that are properly inflated and not rotted. still, a fun time jumping thru time
GoD DammiT!!!...where'S MY ZombiE ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There’s no way that POS car would make it anywhere near 2100.
I loved it! But, it was wayy too dark. I couldn't see through some of the film. Other than that, wonderful job!
Unfortunately, filming at night definitely presents difficulties that (without appropriate lighting) is hard to counteract. Just as well, some monitors/televisions will display darks stronger depending on it's contrast ratio and panel. Thanks for the criticism nonetheless, we'll try to make the darks less strong in the future!
AkoliteFilms loved everythng about it. well done!
that car held up good to be 178 years old lol
Why does he have a cheap spotting scope attached with packing tape? That *Can't* be zeroed in!
It's making me crazy...
Its the year 2187...still driving the 1998 Buick!
Now how many Zombies/bad guys are you gonna shoot and kill with a red rider BB gun?
Fascinating story athough it took me a few minutes to become aware of it. Maybe a bit long for a short movie.Sounds just right, music at the end: I would have picked a non 4/4 beat instead of disturbed guitar sounds.Over all: food for thought so imho good job!
very well done..
Great concept ! Love it, but too many long breaks of dead air
OK, at 7:30, I simply had to stop watching. There was no noticeable plot. I liked the music, the audio and visual effects (especially the post-apocalyptic city in the background), the cool Buick (apparently in the future, automobiles de-evolve), and the sparse acting, but I couldn't stand just watching disembodied scenes moving towards no determined climax.
Anyway, good job on the stuff I mentioned but please work on the plot in the future because that is the most critical aspect of a film.
+Matt Foley I agree. The plot points were very sparsely paced when we filmed this (in the future we want to make films that are more quickly paced for entertainment purposes). However, in that point in the sequence none of the major events of the story actually occurred. Keep in mind that it's also important to watch the entirety of the film's progression!
Regardless, thanks for the feedback! We appreciate it.
+therisenfilms Thanks, bro.
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Jacob Robert Desio ok I will this instant.
+therisenfilms For a bunch of HS kids you knocked it out of the park. Today people are spoiled with simple plots, fast pace, but no heart or substance.
The name was enough to understand there was more than some kids surviving in a post apocalyptic world (Nice use of Latin). The time stamps you put in should have been enough for anyone with a brain to know something was off kilter. By 2 mins in I knew it was about time travel, but how you handled it was perfect.
good short, thanks for the upload
The guy looks like Shark Boy does he look that way to anyone else
Great! Shorten the time between scenes.
I'd be impressed if a late model Buick lasted that long. Just sayin'
Well, I seen me a Buick window uptown
There was nobody around
I got into the driver's seat and I drove down a rural street
In my Buick
Good car to drive after a war. Written by Bob, modified by nobody in particular!
Rule #1: don't forget a spare spark plug!
again half of the dam 18 minute film consists of black outs than the date;