CGI extravaganza on a budget!

This movie has been lighting up the blogosphere! I found it by way of Mike Curtis' excellent HD for Indies blog.



A crew of four recreate the D-Day attack Omaha beach for BBC's Timewatch programme. A cast of three, basic costumes and props, a researcher operating a Z1E camera, a roll of greenscreenmaterial and a single saloon car. Add to the mix some small explosions filmed in a back yard and a ton of photographic references.

Of course the degraded Saving Private Ryan look and the Youtube compression helps cover a multitude of sins, but this is designed for TV broadcast so has to meet the BBC's standards. Mike Curtis says "All desktop doable".

A second segment is here, and a production blog explaining some of the process is here.