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The crew aboard the spaceship Argo has just awoken from hypersleep to a nightmare. Having spent the last twenty years searching for a new home to salvage humanity from a dying earth they return home and find something has gone terribly wrong. They have been mysteriously impelled 200 years into the future and find not a trace of any human life. The Argo’s Commander, Dr. Richard Adams is determined to find some answers and, aided by the ship’s surgeon, Rod Lewis, and onboard Artificial Intelligence, Clarke, decides to explore the one clue to the massive floating O’Neill colony named L5. After an exploratory skiff goes missing inside the colony, Adams and Lewis venture inside themselves to find the answers they seek, nothing can prepare them for what they are about to find.
Director: Stanley Von Medvey
Writer: Tom Ptasinski
Producers: Tom Ptasinski, Adam Nelson
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CROWDFUNDED ORIGINAL DRAMA
L5 is a completely crowd-funded production, through the generosity of donors from sites such as kickstarter and indiegogo, the creative team of L5 has spent a year bringing the story to life.Our goal with L5 was to create a compelling, high-production-value science fiction on a small budget. After endless hours in post production were volunteered by a talented team of visual effects artists all over the world, and with the spit and vinegar of home grown construction methods for building props, sets and costumes, as well as the unrelenting support of our families and the local art and business community in the Chicago area, the result was accomplished inside a budget of $15,000.
Now we need your help!
You've seen what we can do with so little. We want to multiply that, and do even more. We want to build a unique production environment that will enable us to continue creating more episodes of L5, as well as other original science fiction content.
SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS CROWDFUNDED SERIES!
The money we raise with your support will go towards seeding a brand new, cloud based production system. It will fund a proof of concept for a cloud based intelligent task management technology, allowing us to pursue the investment we need to create a global film and visual effects production system. It will allow us to research the best open-source VFX pipeline, taking advantage of all the existing free tools, while allowing us to develop new ones. This system will drive the cost of making high-end visual effects down, allowing us to produce L5 and other content cost effectively. Our stories are just huge, and we need an equally huge and innovative approach to film making to pull it off. Combined with the local film production talent in Chicago, we believe we can make anything, on a fraction of the budget.We want to offer these services to up and coming film makers and productions, giving creative and talented people the most bang for their production budgets by opening up a tool set that was previously inaccessible to all but the most well funded productions.
Help us usher in a new renaissance of science fiction!
220 Comments
Posted by chris.hacken 2012-05-10 23:15:39
Wondering how much you need to create another episode. I'm willing to donate, but I want to make sure it's not getting pocket'd.
Posted by Christina Dunning 2012-05-08 15:20:34
how much will it cost to make a new episode? I loved the first one and will be donating soon but I am wondering if we'll see more of these anytime soon.
Posted by JohnRain 2012-04-29 15:54:59
Fantastic show. I too am finding there are no decent SciFi shows these days. Trying to spread the word as much as I can here in the Great White North. Donated, of course!
Posted by coldclimber 2012-04-29 13:27:29
If you made this 50c a download you would have a great budget to work with, over a million downloads that is some half a million dollar budget. Loved the first episode and donated accordingly, but would have paid 50c if needed anyway.
Posted by Jibba81 2012-04-24 02:52:44
Love the show guys I am a sci-fi nut and recently have found myself homeless as far as programming is concerned I have absolutely no cash and actual;y just spent my last $1.45 on gas which doesn't get much nowadays...I will donating as soon as I am able please make more episodes....
Posted by Jessie1000 2012-04-20 04:38:24
I am glad that some artists bring us some of their stuff to watch for free, it allows for ppl to get to know your work and to support the site if they like it. @RAPHAELHUBER1977 if ppl LIKE the video and want to watch more i am sure they will support the site,, but dont knock downloaders for downloading something that was available and given to the internet users for FREE.. mebbe not everyone liked what they saw and probably dont want to watch more,, it is their choice.. but i do hope that their are enough ppl that do like it and will support this artists work.. i will be. PS,,, I didnt down load it,, i watched it streaming from the site!
Posted by Chad Burns 2012-04-13 17:05:02
L5 is going to C2E2 in Chicago! The Mark IV EMU(Spacesuit) will be worn around the con by myself...and a screening is scheduled for 11am on Saturday.
If you are local, or going to C2E2, we'd love to meet ya!
Posted by Peregrinus 2012-04-10 03:54:36
Please contribute people, I want to see more episodes. If my semi-employed and broke ass can put in $20 you can help too!
Posted by karatasiospa 2012-04-08 15:45:48
@RAPHAELHUBER1977
Unfortunately most people in the bittorrent community have the "take everything give back nothing" kind of thinking. And i agree with you. We get what we deserve.
Posted by raphaelhuber1977 2012-04-08 15:35:48
1.7 million downloads? what IF everyone would spend a dollar? or half? or a tenth?
But no, not even a lousy percent of the downloaders spends a dollar each. It's a shame and proves that the bittorent scene is just a bunch of leechers and hypocryts. Makes it understandable why big studios want to wipe out bittorrent and piratebay. because WE deserve to be wiped out if we can't manage to fund L5 significantly ourselves.
Posted by TradSliggle 2012-04-08 02:54:58
What a great show this is. It is science fiction based on HARD science!!! That means the show tries to be scientificly accurate. As an example of a flawed science fiction; the movie Moon looked really great outside the moon station but inside there was earth gravity, that ruined the movie for me. l5 is in the same league as 2001.
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Its abit problematic with crowdfunding and series. I mean, there is plenty of opportunity to make crowdfunding work (I mean, the Shadowrun game and Double Fine adventures got $2 mill each) - but with series, there needs to be an expectation that the episodes will continue to come...otherwise its not a series!
Its a canendrum surrounding the business model and how to get people paying , generating added value etc - but it must be solvable. With 1.7 mill downloads and only $14k donated, it seems as if you haven't solved it yet.