One man flip flops between two different lives. Everytime he goes to sleep as one, he wakes up as the other. Is it a dream, which one is real? A short film that features a blink and you miss it cameo by GMW.
I think its fair to say that for a lot of this film you play 'spot the Andromeda actor', but thats to take nothing away from a pretty cool story with a very satisfying conclusion. The thing I liked most about this film was the way in which the two realities being shown were blended and cut between, and being the old film studies geek that I am, I really liked the scene where the picture rolled around into another reality, nice. The SFX in this film were really well done, and not at all ropey considering (and without giving away a spoiler) one effect that can sometimes be done so badly it ruins the whole film, not the case here - I'm assuming Gordon pulled a lot of favours to get the quality he got. There's not much to dislike about this film, being only 25 minutes it flows pretty well and doesn't have time to drag and it was nice to see familiar actors in very different roles, especially Laura Bertram who seemed to be having a lot of fun as the other woman. It's probably sad to admit that I enjoyed the end credits, just for the little notes and drawings that kept popping up, and especially liked the disclaimer at the end. I hope this film gets to be seen on a bigger scale one day, and it's a shame it never did the festival circuit - would have been interesting to see how it would have faired.
Fan Reviews
You truly have a talent for films Gordon and I thank you for the opportunity to see this film when I was at Dragon Con during Labor Day weekend. It was like seeing into the mind of someone that has that close connection to a twin. What it would be like if you didn't know you had one, yet somehow felt it. Weird,but in a good way I must say. Thanks. writer997, Michigan
Fracture - The Making of the Film At Dragon*con 2007
I was fortunate enough to attend a special screening of Gordon Michael Woolvett's short film 'Fracture'. As part of the screening, GMW was in attendance and did a Q&A immediately after the screening which revealed a number of previously unknown facts about the film that are now presented to you below. These facts are remembered by memory but I'm fairly confident I remembered the main ones!
Key Facts
Fracture cost a total of $25,000 to make, all out of GMW's pocket and he says if you have any work need doing on your house to let him know, he needs to recoup... ;)
Had the Andromeda production team not offered their help free of charge, the figure for producing the movie would have been closer to $300,000
In total it took four days to film Fracture, and happened over two weekends during the filming of Andromeda's season five... the crew who helped ended up working 19 days straight as a result.
The hardest part of the production was convincing the local authorities that it was a low budget film, due to the equipment that was acquired via the Andromeda production!
With Gordon directing Jorge Montesi, a director himself, for Fracture it truly was a role reversal for actor and director, but roles were reversed again when the following week Jorge directed an Andromeda episode.
The gallery below feature stills from the film, supported by facts related to the images. You will find a great deal of Andromeda connections, for those familiar with the show!
 | Jorge Montesi Directed a number of Andromeda episodes, and was directing the episode of Andromeda that was shot the week between the two weekends it took to film Fracture. |
 | Laura Bertram Played Trance Gemini on Andromeda, usually seen in either Purple or Gold make up, depending on which season you are watching. |
 | Brent Stait A season one regular on Andromeda, he played Rev Bem, the Wayiest Magog - until the full body costume of yak hair caused health problems for the actor. |
 | Brandy Ledford A season five regular on Andromeda, playing Doyle, an android built by Seamus Harper. |
 | Michele Morand (right) Married to Gordon Michael Woolvett and appeared in the season two episode 'Last Call at Broken Hammer' as the pregnant Jadis. |
 | Mike Murphy Was Gordon's driver on Andromeda, had never acted before but it was felt he had a face for film and was given the role. |
 | Shawn Orr Gordon's stunt double for Seamus Harper on Andromeda. During one take he hit the car and actually smashed the sunroof... the car belonged to Gordon! |
 | Lisa Montesi Jorge Montesi's wife |
 | Gordon Michael Woolvett a cameo in the party scene, which also featured the rest of the crew who worked on the film playing party goers, most of whom also worked on Andromeda. |
 | Warehouse shots The scenes right at the beginning, and with forklift later on were actually shot on the soundstage that was home to the Eureka Maru set, in the background to the right you can see the wooden construction of the outer pieces of the Maru set. |
 | Staff room shot Redressed Andromeda canteen area |
 | Office re-dressed Andromeda writing staff offices |
 | The bedroom Re-dressed office of Andromeda head writer Bob Engles |
 | The Bedroom An amazing job that made Bob Engles office appear very convincingly to be a family home! |
 | The boss's office The wall of the canteen at the Andromeda studios, dressed and lit to look like a four sided office. |
 | The boss's office The same wall, redressed again to look like the other side of the office! |
 | The interior of the XXX club Re-dressed guest stars dressing rooms on Andromeda |
 | XXX bedroom Interior of a guest stars dressing room on Andromeda, apparently the bed was already there. |
 | Editors input The jarring flashback/fracture style effect was an after thought that was added in post production by the editor that contributed to the story telling with great effect. |
 | The most expensive shot Although Gordon had a lot of very appreciated help from the post production guys on Andromeda, this shot proved to be the most expensive. |
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| The hardest special effect shot Taking the most time and the hardest to get right was the effect when both of the characters see each other - due to being filmed as the sun rose, problems occured in timing as Jorge had a wet/dry costume change and by the time he'd done the change to film the other half of the meet, the entire lighting had change. Re-shoots had to be done with green screen in the Andromeda studios later on, and the matching up proved a nightmare. | |
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| Special effects - the camera spin One of the first and pretty cool effects used in Fracture, that also strangely appeared in the episode filmed around the same time on Andromeda - coincidently written by Gordon. According to Gordon they hired the special camera to film the spin for Fracture and it turned up on the Andromeda set to do the shot with Dylan somehow... | |
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| Why Michele deserves a medal The exterior shots were filmed in a bad part of Vancouver, items were stolen during the shoot but when Gordon wanted to shoot a particular ally he was told it would have to be cleaned up first and hired professionals with all the right gear to do the job. Unfortunately it was a big job and they ran out of time - but Michele stepped in, even though pregnant with their second child, she donned the safety outfit and set to work and completed the task - clearing away human waste, needles and other horrors... only for filming to overrun and the scene to be dropped at the end of the day! If it means anything... we salute Michele Morand for dedication to this film! | |
