Those who are fans of the Half Life games by Valve will be blown away by this, and others will be blown away at the quality of production with hardly any budget.
Directed by the Purchase Brothers, who have no connection with Valve at all, it is the first in a short film series adapted from the Half Life 2 story and based around some side characters rather than the famous Gordon Freeman and friends. It was originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as being a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. It was filmed guerrilla style with almost no money, no time, no crew, no script- the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of $500.
Apparently, Valve flew the brothers out to Seattle last year as they were amazed at the outcome of their hard work. In the first three days after being posted on YouTube it gained 1.5million views. Part 2 is on its way.
