Time Rift
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| Fan Film | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Time Rift |
| Creator: | Jon Blum, Half a Dozen Lemmings Productions |
| Date: | June 1996 |
| Length: | 2 hours, 4 episodes |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Doctor Who |
| URL: | lungbarrow.com/TimeRift world.std.com/~drwho/timerift.html (via Wayback) photo page from Chapin |
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Time Rift is a Doctor Who fan film series. The script was written by Jonathan Blum, AC Chapin, and Amy Steele. The soundtrack was composed by Neil Marsh with help from Darrin Snider.
Summary
The Time Lords are once again manipulating the Doctor -- the TARDIS lands in Washington DC in the near future... twenty-four hours before the city was destroyed in a mysterious blast the size of a small atomic bomb. The question is, is the Doctor supposed to prevent it, to find out what happened... or make sure it happens?Will the blood of millions turn out to be on his hands? What would the cost be of changing the future? And who else has come to this place and time, for reasons of their own?
As the Doctor is forced into a game without even knowing the other players, it opens up quite a different sort of rift between the Doctor and Ace.
Cast
- Jon Blum as Seventh Doctor
- AC Chapin as Ace McShane
- Amy Steele as Ray
- Itzy Friedman as The Master/Dr. Black
- Martha Twitty as The Brigadier/General Kramer
- Kevin Cherry as Capt. Walker
- Eldridge Brown and David Dougherty as Timothy Hartnell
Production
From a production standpoint, the quality is extraordinary given the inherently low-budget nature of the production. Not only did Jon manage to get some great effects together (was the computer animation original, or did you crib that off another show or movie, Jon?) but the video editing itself is extremely professional, as at the cliffhanger of episode three. Granted, it's not flawless -- there are a couple of jumpy breaks from shot to shot, or instances in which someone's positioning changes awkwardly depending on the camera angle. The sound is also substandard in some scenes -- including, unfortunately, the conclusion -- but, having experienced all kinds of sound problems myself, this is the kind of thing which really ends up being unavoidable. And, hell, it's in keeping with the McCoy era too :-). Also annoying are some continuity problems -- like the fact that the gun and its future self which passed through the Time Rift are brought in contact on several occasions in the last couple of episodes without consequence, despite all the fuss made about this earlier.Shannon Sullivan[2]
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