Blackout is a short crime thriller centered around a single, tightly organized operation. The movie is based on a masked hitman called Matheus, who is dropped at a target house by the contractor’s assistant called Massimo. Under the remote guidance of the contractor, called Tati, who instructs him through an earpiece from a nearby location,…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. The Blackout social media rollout is officially complete. The Instagram page has now been finalized at a total of 24 posts. Every teaser, archive clip, cast cover art, behind the scenes moment, announcement, and release post now sits together as one cohesive feed. What began as scattered promotional updates has become…
With the film officially released, the focus has now shifted entirely to the festival presentation component. The next major deliverable for this project is the festival postcard, designed specifically for a screening audience rather than a social media feed. Unlike the cast cover arts or thumbnails, this design needed to function as an informational promotional…
Blackout is officially live. The film has now been published on YouTube and is publicly available to watch. Seeing it fully exported, uploaded, and presented on a public platform feels completely different from viewing it inside an editing timeline. At this stage, there are no more placeholders, no more rough cuts, and no more missing…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. The rollout has officially begun. Blackout will be released tomorrow. After months of development, rewrites, filming sessions, reshoots, voiceovers, and post production refinement, the short film is now ready to be shown. What started as a constantly evolving concept has now reached its final stage. This blog marks the transition from…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. This is a major update for Blackout. After a lot of discussion, we officially decided not to refilm the burnout scene again. Marcos’ availability has been limited, and after reviewing the footage several times, both Tati and I realized that the shadow issue we were concerned about is barely noticeable. We…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. Today was fully dedicated to voiceovers and sound design, and it honestly felt like a real production setup. We built a small recording station inside the garage. A table was set up with a laptop playing an early cut of the film so Tati could match her lines precisely to the…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. Backup filming day is officially done. We knocked out everything that was still missing. That includes the POV phone shot showing the license plate confirmation, new Mustang exit angles from the garage, and the final burnout and flee sequence. On paper, everything that needed to be captured was captured. However, once…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. Finally, the REAL Filming day. It was intense, productive, and honestly a huge learning experience. We are not finished yet, but we are close. I would say we are about seventy five percent done with principal photography. We began with the opening sequence where Matheus is dropped off at the target…
Hey everyone, Adrian here. A new version of the script is officially in progress, and there’s a potentially new change being talked about at the moment. One major adjustment that is currently in talks right now is the removal of the helmet and night vision elements. While they look visually strong on paper, we think…
