This simple cinematic contains a lot of hidden messaging to players. Pretty much everything was defined on the script-level, including camera shots. 

Trivia:
The part near the end with the two characters looking at each other, and the shot of the mask, caused a huge amount of speculation and discussion among fans, because this wasn't meant to be the 'true' ending of the story; that was revealed in a second filmed scene players had to unlock.

My contributions were writing, direction and animatics. (I also did one of the voices.)  For this trailer, I used captured flight sim footage, photographs and Google maps data to make a pre-vis animatic of the trailer, which was then recreated in high resolution by the Cinematic Producer.

Trivia:
The "VHS static" effect was done by me filming real VHS interference off an old CRT television, a technique that was later used by Creative Assembly on "Alien Isolation"!

This pre-vis sequence was put together in a day for a game proposal that was presented by me to the board of Vivendi Universal Games. It was meant as a mood-setting intro to our proof-of-concept slideshow from a IP I came up with. I did the video editing and 2D graphics.

Trivia:
I modeled the car and textures using photographs off a childhood-dream-car I once owned.

I wrote and co-directed this scene out of the GC2 single player campaign. It was important to leave the audience wanting more, but we couldn't leave it on a cliffhanger because we didn't know if the series would continue. I also felt that we shouldn't wrap it all up in a nice 'happy ending', but end in drama, with a glimmer of hopeful continuance. 

Trivia:
The ending was partially inspired by the rom-com movie "Green Card", which also has an ambiguous end, where the audience has some freedom to decide what happened later. 

For this RTS game I wore a lot of hats and almost ended up being a creative director of sorts, tutoring the developers in how to create cinematics and drama, as well as story-editing and casting. I captured and edited this trailer for the premiere reveal.