Interstellar

 This class has had amazing movies throughout the semester (one of my personal favorites being Ghost in The Shell), and I'm so glad I could finally watch Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Its main theme, composed by the great Hans Zimmer, is one I've heard for years without even getting a single gist of the movie's themes (such as time travel, survival, extinction, space exploration, etc.) For this class's assignment, we had to do a short 3 minutes video about an interaction with someone that came from the future--as long as we're basing our story in a reddit/quora conspiracy/tales about time travel. As soon as I read the instructions, I started to look on reddit, and found many interesting comments. For example, one said that he had come from the ear 2345, and other ones mentioned the urban legend of John Titor. John Titor was a man--who through his many world hypothesis--claimed that there was going to be a five way civil war in America in 2005, which evidently didn't end up happening. Nonetheless, in his hypothesis, as well as science-fiction (take for example Back in The Future), our presence in the past may change the timeline of events, and therefore the five way civil war may have been postponed. 

Therefore, when writing the script for this project, Michael and I knew what to do. We wanted both a Marco from the future and a Marco from the current timeline, where "Marco 2086" would come warning us about John Titor and the five way civil war that ends up occurring in the US by 2073. His presence in our current world being a forced one, in the hopes of re-changing the timeline of events. Michael and I had lots of fun making the short clip, since I got to shave my hair and goatee when done shooting all the scenes that I come from the future, so that then I could act being myself from the current world. While playing with the opacity in Adobe Premiere Pro, I was able to make myself appear in two different places within the same frame! It was very fun and easy to do (which surprised me). The class was impressed and this has been one of the most fun experiences I've had throughout the semester.



From left to right: Michael Krueger, Marco (present day) and Marco (from the future, 2086).


Here's the link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k3EkFd1yqQ&t=42s&ab_channel=MarcoPoloProductions


I hope you enjoy it!

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