405 (film)

405 is the name of a 3minute film released in June 2000 and produced by Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt. It was the first short film to become widely distributed on the Internet and became a media sensation for a short time. It is generally thought ofby whom? as one of, if not the first viral film property.

The film took three and a half months to make. The real footage, consisting of the actors in still vehicles, was shot in one weekend with an hour of pickups later. The post production and visual effects were completed later on by the two filmmakers in their spare time. All of the shots outside of the Jeep are entirely computer generated threedimensional models. The actors were shot in vehicles similar to the ones in the film but the exterior shots of the vehicles, the jet, the highway and background scenery in the film are composed of composited images from still photographs and video applied to threedimensional models created in computer modeling software. About 50 of the shots in the interior of the Jeep are digital effects.Branit and Hunt taught themselves the use of visual effects software before working as professionals. Both had been working as visual effects artists for a few years before making 405. While Hunt had a degree in filmmaking the use of digital effects software was not commonly taught in school at that time. ........

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