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Thank you for supporting independent filmmaking! I appreciate your feedback and will share it with the two actresses!

Thank you for supporting independent filmmaking, and glad you picked up on our retro 1980's/Vestron Video vibe!

Thank you for watching the movie, and for your praise!

Yes, I can vouch for the actress -- it's nearly impossible to see out through the helmet visor with all those blasted LED lights. Looks great for camera, though!

I imagine its hard to keep condensation from clouding the inside face shield too.

@@catchaser52We did not have too much trouble w helmet condensation on our set. But I’ve spoken to other filmmakers who did.

Additionally the sides of the helmet would block critical visibility.

@@jenjewell3148 Jen and others, thank you for the practical insights on all of this. It is our goal at Trujillo Creek Pictures to make realistic-feeling movies, so your input is helpful for future projects!

Your comment disappeared! Just like the first crew in this movie! Oooook back to the flick!!

Both great observations. Artificial gravity is the bane of nearly every scifi movie. You either depict weightlessness, and the hassles of that, or have gravity and try to move forward with your story (as Alien, Star Wars, and countless others have done). I hope we have a REAL solution to creating gravity in the near future. To the title, Hemisphere is a play on words (Hemi-here = half-here) and a metaphor for both hemispheres of the human brain, which can undoubtedly lead to drama during space missions. Then there's the dark side of Mercury that they orbit (the planet's hemisphere).

Well xodarap, that's a particular paradox I've thought about also if paradox it be - I always look to see if maybe it spins on an axis - the best I've seen wasn't really an explanation but seemed an accurate depiction when artificial grav was lost aboard a fed starship as 2 Klingons were assassinated, with all the globules of blood floating around,, plus some other stuff...

It has electrolytes

Yeah, remember the OLD SPACE DAYS wearinG MAGNETIC BOOTS? 'CHA-KUNK, CHA_KUNK, CHA-KUNK'!!!

Okay... so the famous "Martian" feature you mention is actually a razed excavation site on the surface of Mercury. Decimated by mining, the surface of the planet has become permanently scarred by the year 2047.

Budget problems? @USPC?

I presume you are referring to AVERI, the AI unit as voiced by actress Lena Vandam. We weighed how much detail this prop shoudl have, then decided that it is essentially a water-cooled, high-performance CPU and decorated it accordingly. We will explore AVERI's ability to make coffee as an added feature in the future!

All right we got us some lesbian action going onwhen the redhead investigator kiss the hacker on the head and the fact that they covered up in a blanket ohh man it was worth the wait that's what I'm talking about get this lesbian thing going😊😅 about time we got a little romance going between these two Bill problem hook up later back on Earth when ii over with. 😅

@@charlesneely Okay, yes, you did pick up on that. Intended to be subtle, but one of the characters may be more open to it than the other one. Maybe something for the filmmakers to explore further in a sequel.

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Great movie! The actors did a great job and the plot had some nice twists. One thing though: yet again there is 'artificial gravity' in a space vessel with no discussion of how it works. I have been waiting many years now (decades in fact...) for someone to explain it to me! ;-)

@@xodarap Yes, the artificial gravity 'conundrum' is one many movies have faced, and either addressed or chosen to ignore. We tried to come up w/ some type of technical explanation. How this operates in actual practice will be worthy of a Nobel Prize someday!

Thank you!

Yes! And that is exactly what the Phoebe character tells Sandra repeatedly. But Sandra still holds a torch for her ex, unfortunately...

Thank you! We appreciate you watching "Hemisphere" and glad you connected with it!

Fair observation. Maybe gravity is always present on the Bridge, as opposed to other areas of the facility.

Blood makes a good glue.

@@AffordBindEquipment thats gore!!! Cool!!!

Although it may *appear* as concrete, it is in fact a high tensile strength, lightweight composite material that exists in the future.

Styrofoam

@@TheSpiralnotebook You're close. The material is actually called "Tyrofoam", and it's an advanced technology with very high tensile strength and resistance to heat, thus making it ideal for use in space. It will be created in a lab in 2033 -- roughly 9 years from now. ;)

Actually, it would not be calculated as weight, but as mass. Something in space is weightless, but there it still has mass. Where the more mass there is, the more energy it takes to act upon it, or move it. 😊

Good point.

People can do dumb things, especially in stressful situations, and even more specifically...in movies. 😊

I did not know this actress, but just saw her images on IMDb. Yes, that is the same ballpark physical look of Phoebe. Thanks for drawing the comparison!

Yes, you are not far off. A dorm room in space... it is our commentary on how poorly some companies treat their employees ; )

Myst... you're referring to the computer game? Love having that parallel, although we don't do as much gaming as we'd like here. The boss gets mad :(

​@trujillocreek77 Would love a movie or series based on the MYST game or the novels, which were extremely good in they're own right!

@@BradfordGuy The books are top notch. Totally worth the read.

Actually, you are quite prescient. Home Depot will sell space materials in the year 2047 when our movie is set. Nice catch!

It tends to look more interesting on camera. More of a psychological effect for the audience.

@@trujillocreek77 guess that's why it's called "fiction".

I believe scifi is all about expanding what we know today. Mercury has heavy nickel ore deposits; not much on the moon. Where there is a will, there is a way. Dark side of Mercury would protect a vessel and crew from the sun.

Well we never went to the moon so science fiction fits the bill!!

It's set in a parallel universe so tech is accelerated there.

Sorry it wasn't to your liking, but thank you for supporting independent filmmaking.

You should have kept going!!

Everything becomes retro eventually.

Science police just showed up. How about in their world they have teleportation? Developed hyper speed travel? They obviously are doing something different since they have a manned craft in deep space, right? Just enjoy the movie, and stop.This is someones home made first crack at movie making, they probably wrote, directed filmed, etc, etc, and now you want them to go to science school on top of everything? Demanding much? and what are you giving them in return? oh yeah, absolutely nothing, but your bad attitude and negativity. What a jerk.

@@edition-deluxe Some people would appreciate receiving constructive criticism. If that hurts your feelings, call the Whaaaaammmbulance.

Or @ least flesh out the ideas, concepts & as many. Different possibilities of said missions. Bad scripts ruin stories & of bad logic, there’s just no excuse, It’s lazy.

Are you kidding with artificial intelligence they're going to be a lot more advanced than that

We do attempt to address time delays w/ speed of light, witness all of the video communications. If we are to successfully traverse the solar system in the future, we will need more advanced propulsion systems, ion stream engines or some such. Today's propulsion systems are def not up to the task!

Thank you for watching the movie, and supporting independent filmmaking. I will take your feedback into consideration for future space projects!

Regarding anachronistic... I am reminded of the infamous Grass Valley video switcher, used in the original "Star Wars" to blow up the Death Star. Even famous movies rely on anachronistic props sometimes! ; )

@@trujillocreek77 Anachronistic props can be an ingenious way to save money, provided the audience is not extremely familiar with them, or there is some rational reason they might still be using them, or they are merged/truncated with things and put in orientations that make them harder to recognize. When the B-52 airplanes are finally retired, they will have been in operation 100 years, perhaps longer. But 6-8 years and a laptop is junk. I saw these really cool "Office Privacy Pod Phone Booth Call Rooms" in the Los Angeles Craig's List. They look fantastic for movie props. Pricey, maybe, but perhaps a rental for a couple weeks? Modern but obscure can easily work. Some things are timeless: tableware, some chairs, tables, paper clips, pens and doors. They may or may not be in realty, but only when you reach that future date can you really praise or mock. We may be mocked for things like there being people with receding hairlines or bald. Maybe they will just take a pill or have those genes changed. Maybe there will be no crocked teeth, no obesity. Who can say how things will really be? Sometimes filmmakers assume that because they are unfamiliar with something that the audience won't be either. What you want to look at beyond that intuition is just how many are made. The more there are, the more of your audience will have seen them. Upon seeing an IBC tote (a palletized liquids container) a filmmaker might think these look like great props for distant future/alien worlds. But, in realty, 3/4 of your audience will recognize them because there are many millions of these things. Modified in some way, perhaps, like cutting out 1/3 of it and covering it in aluminum tape. One thing that bothers me in many space-based science fiction movies is people with a lot of obvious sun damage, and very tan, being cast as lifelong space travelers. I think space travelers are going to have near perfect skin. Maybe even get mocked for burning fast when on a planet, or overly frightened of getting sun. After all, it is radiation.

Artistic license is a tool used since the invention of film, it does not have to be as realistic as reality to work imho.

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@@vshah1010 That was almost a lesbian scene. Besides, they could blame their mild attraction on lack of oxygen

I guess, yeah, they were kind of noisy. No arguments or anything like that. Mostly talking, discussing what to do next. Probably would not have been audible a floor below, what with the reactor and engines of the space station emitting a constant rumble...