Beyond Black Mesa (Fan Made HL2 Short Film)

[Mixa...]

Check out this amazing short film based in the Half Life universe made with a few friends, $1200 and a handy-cam

Beyond Black Mesa is a short Independent fan film Inspired by the Half-Life Video Game series. This is an action packed short film centering around Adrian Shephard and a band of resistance fighters struggling to get out a warning about the impending invasion.

- Independent short film - 2 years in the making - Endless hours of post
- 1 Canon HV20
- 7 Friends
- $1,200 budget for the full short film.

This film is not HL,HL2 or Opposing Forces. It's a short fan film that takes place in the Half-Life world. Also, as a completely independent film, we wanted to have a creative voice in the movie and make it a movie that we would enjoy shooting. We took artistic freedoms and liberties, unfortunately most of those decisions were determined by our limited resources.

[Mixa...]

to give you an idea of how impressive this is...Here's the cam they used

[NackaJeem]

That's just awesome! For $1200.00 too, that's the most impressive part of it.

I love a good bit of crowbar action too. Hats off to them.

[Mixa...]

Yep...as someone who is studying film I'm super impressed with this work.
I know just how much work they must of put into post production

[DangerMouse]

I thought it was good... until the dodgy spin kick scene...

[Darko]

this would have to the best fan film ive seen

[Nadanova]

Absolutely fantastic, the only gripe I have is with the Combine masks, there was another fan film that had exact replicas made. I think they were working with valve though so had a larger budget.