As a huge fan of the cancelled Firefly series (and the subsequent movie, Serenity), I was thrilled to learn last year that an independent fan film made for charity, “Browncoats: Redemption” was in production. I was hopping up and down when I volunteered to make “anything you need” to Steve Fisher, the Co-Creator and Producer.
Imagine how excited I got when Steve told me last week that he and Mike Dougherty (Co-Creator and Director/Writer) did indeed have something they needed and that I could help! Apparently, during filming, Steve has been making “behind the scenes” videos. He had a pile of footage that needed to be made into a video for the site, www.browncoatsmovie.com, and I could do it. Steve and I met in a Panera (I had the infamously wonderful black bean soup!) and I walked off with two DVDs of high-def flip cam footage that Steve had shot.
Once home, I took the already created intro and outro, and put together two minutes of my first attempt, which I handed back to Steve via an FTP upload. It’s always kind of hard to take someone else’s video and try to determine what it is they’re trying to do with it and make THAT. I sat there gnawing on my left knuckle until he wrote back, telling me that I’d pretty much got it! Yay!
After making two new versions with Steve’s requested tweaks, I was squishing the redone video to a superbly pixelated 1.3MB version and emailing it back to him each time so he could verify I’d done what he and Mike liked.
Finally, version three was just right. I passed the full 500MB version to Steve by an FTP upload, and he put it on their YouTube channel. Here it is, the behind the scenes video of the cargo bay build.
