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Backyard Space Opera: Micro Budget Sci Fi | Stop Motion Animation | Practical Special Effects | Special Effects | Low Budget Science Fiction | Micro Budget Filmmaking | Science Fiction | Independent Filmmaking | Screenwriting

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  • BYSO Podcast 28: Zedfest Short Films
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera podcast!  This week we discuss the short films of the Zedfest film festival.  We’ll give our opinions about the good, the bad, and the strange of the festival.  We’ll discuss how story, budget, and technical polish come together to make or break a short film. Check out a full list of the films at Zedfest.org.
    39 min
  • BYSO Podcast 27: Zedfest Features
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera podcast! This week we discuss our recent adventures at Zedfest film festival.  We’ll examine three fantastic features that were at the festival, Virtual Revolution, Gun Driver, and The Broadcast.  Each of these great low/micro budget movies brings something special that we found extremely inspiring.
    27 min
  • BYSO Podcast 26: Script Craft Part 2
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast! This week, we finish the rough draft script for Lens Driver Prelude, our next short film project.  We’ll continue to incorporate all the feedback we received from the story creation process and discuss the best dialogue to bring our characters to life.  We also embrace the power of the “Montage”.
    There’s still time to come out and see our first super short film, “The Wrath of Ranger X” playing at Zedfest on November 2, at 7pm, with the feature “Gun Driver”.  Tickets available at Zedfest.org.
    40 min
  • BYSO Podcast 25: Script Craft Part 1
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast!  This week we take our next film project further by developing the rough draft of our script.  We’ll discuss and incorporate all the fantastic advice we’ve received and show our process of creating, what we hope is, another great short film.  We also briefly discuss our excitement that our first short film, “The Wrath of Ranger X” is part of the Zed Fest film festival in North Hollywood.  You can get tickets at zedfest.org. Our film is on Nov. 2nd, at 7pm with the feature movie “Gun Driver”.
    1 hr
  • BYSO Podcast 24: Space Ship Shenanigans
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast.  This week we examine the greatest space ships of movie history, but with an important twist, we’re excluding the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises.  Join us as we examine the specific shots of the space ships, how they were constructed, and how each movie was elevated thanks to theses space ships.
    For an awesome article on one of our picks, check out this interview from Den of Geek.
    32 min
  • BYSO Podcast 23: Post Apocalyptic Party
    Hi Everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast.  This week, we party post apocalyptic style by reviewing three micro budget short films set in the post nuclear waste land, Phoenix 9, State Zero, and Kortex.  Check them out on youtube and then hear our thoughts as we take many lessons to aid us in our micro budget film making efforts.
     
     
     
    57 min
  • BYSO Podcast 22: Story Strategies
    Hi everyone, welcome to Backyard Space Opera Podcast! This week we further develop the story behind our newest short film project.  Building on the feedback we received from the prose narrative of episode 17, we discuss additions and changes to make at the story level as we move into writing the first draft of the script.  We’ll talk about character development, dialogue issues, and keeping “mystery” alive.  So if you haven’t already, check out BYSO podcast episode 17: Lens Driver Prelude, then come back to hear us further develop the story.
    We’d love to know your thoughts too, so please email [email protected]
     
     
    46 min
  • BYSO Podcast 21: Short Film Shout Out
    Hi everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera Podcast.  This week we bring you another examination of short films. We compare and contrast two surreal genre shorts.  The first is the 1980 fantasy Black Angel, which was thought to be lost but newly rediscovered.  The other is the recent comic book adventure Dr. Professor’s Thesis of Evil. We’ll discuss the value of visuals versus sound versus story.
    31 min
  • BYSO Podcast 20: Movie Review of Primer
    Hi everyone, welcome again to Backyard Space Opera podcast. This week we examine the critically acclaimed micro budget time travel thriller, Primer.  We’ll talk about this film’s wondrous qualities from a filmmaker point of view, but we’ll also put on our Space Ranger helmet and discuss its short comings from a Sci-Fi fan point of view.
    29 min
  • BYSO Podcast 19: Movie Review of Dark Space
    Hi Everyone, welcome to another Backyard Space Opera podcast! This week we review the movie Dark Space.  Join us as we discuss this strange mash up of monster movie and space solider action movie.  We’ll wonder at the awesomeness of the film’s super science armor and the strange decision to make an audience sit through cliche’ horror movie tropes in order to see it.
    49 min

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