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The Möbius Strip (Act 1 - 10⁰m) available through multiple channels

In 2004 I completed the first Act of a two part short film called The Möbius Strip. The short was completed as part of my final year degree in Creative Visualisation at The University of Teesside.

Up until now the The Möbius Strip has been keep under lock and key and has not been shown to anyone other than select close friends and family - plus a few directors and the board at the National Film + Television School. With the relatively recent burst in User Generated Content availability through sites such as YouTube!, Google Video, MySpace and the new Zudeo, I thought it was maybe time to release The Möbius Strip to the world.

The release is now available on YouTube! and Zudeo at differing quality. YouTube! is restricted to the flash video format and the quality is less good. Zudeo, a Bittorrent system, has a full PAL resolution letter-box version, encoded in QuickTime format using the H.264 MPEG-4 codec. The latter will playback in QuickTime 7 or VLC Media Player.

Accompanying the short film is the original documentation that was a core part of the final year project for the University. The documentation outlines in detail how the project was conceived, scheduled, executed and finally finished. For anybody with the time to read the 85 page accompanying book, it will give a much better insight to what I was trying to achieve and more importantly, what the second act will look like when completed.

Finally, it seems appropriate to mention that The Möbius Strip Act 1 won the 2004 Royal Television Society Student Non-Factual Production Award (North East and Border) for Director/Writer/Producer Sam Clark (me). You can read the full story on the Royal Television Society web site.

The Möbius Strip (Act 1 - 10⁰m)

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• Watch on YouTube
• Download using Zudeo (08:23 QuickTime H.264 MPEG-4 520.25MB)

• Download the accompanying book to The Möbius Strip (PDF 29.9MB)

The Möbius Strip is a Polaris Digital Pictures release © 2004 Polaris Digital Limited