Monsters // Vertigo Films

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  Plot: After  a NASA deep-space probe crash lands in Mexico, extraterrestrial life forms spread throughout the Mexico-United States border region, leading to the quarantine of the northern half of Mexico. US and Mexican troops battle to contain the creatures, while a wall stretching along the American border ostensibly keeps the US protected.

 Filming: This film was shot using prosumer cameras instead of the more expensive 35mm film cameras. Many settings featured in the film were real locations (ofter used without permission) and most of the extras were people who were already at the filming location. As most of the extras were non-actors who were persuaded to be in the film their action was improvised.

Editing and effects: Every night after shooting, the editor and his assistant would download the footage so the memory sticks could be cleared and ready for the next day. While new footage was being captured, the previously filmed footage was edited at the production team's hotel.

Edwards created the special effects himself using off-the-shelf Adobe software, ZBrush and Autodesk  He had five months to create all 250 visual effects shots, he did all of this in his bedroom.