Spin-Off in 2025?

Doctor Who: Nexus is intended to wrap up the continuity we created through our years, as a final goodbye and a closure to the old series!

However, this doesn't mean Doctor Who: Nexus will be the end of it all!

Plans are being arranged for a spin-off, independently created by me (Jack, Triad Studios) and released to the Doctor Who: Nexus YouTube channel!

Details of which are uncertain, but plans so far do include crossovers of many pre-established fan-film Doctors, and it will not be just an audio drama!

More to come soon!

Nexus Ratio

Short post!

I wanted to share the aspect ratios and intended colour themes for both episodes we'll be producing and releasing in November!

Episode 1 - 23/11/24

Aspect Ratio: 2:1

The Univisium aspect ratio was chosen by us for shots inside the TARDIS. See, we wanted to get a wider image so that when The Doctor would be stood in the room, the viewer would be reminded where The Doctor is and give a sense of Doctor Who - with the wider frame, this should capture the environment better in theory.

 

Episode 2 - 30/11/24

 

Aspect Ratio: 2:1, 1.85:1

The second episode will include the iMax-compatible 1.85:1 (similar to 16:9) aspect ratio, as we decided that for scenes outside the TARDIS, itd be important to include as much detail as possible of the surroundings. Also, since a few shots of the outside will be CGI, it'd be pointless to try and make them look realistic on zero budget, so we went all out and made sure most of the details were included!

For the same reason as in Episode 1, 2:1 was chosen to ensure the environment of the TARDIS was evident. 

I will try my best to ensure the changes in aspect ratio aren't jarring or overly noticeable lol

August 23rd - Unreleased Pilot Episode!

 Hi! Jack here, back again.

I wanted to let you know that on the 23rd of August, we'll be uploading another video.

Back in 2020, as the lock-down restrictions eased in the UK, we used whatever time together that we could to create a new Doctor Who episode, intending to follow the old videos we used to make around the ages of 9-13ish. (Those are now available on a playlist on the Nexus channel!)

We had a script, though to be honest I can't remember which of us wrote it, and we first filmed the scene where The Doctor shows his companion - Tim Phillips - his TARDIS (newly built!), and planned to meet up in town later on to film the rest of the episodes! :)

However, a few issues occurred behind screen, some made it tricky to work with the cast member who played Tim, and others including the rising of cases in the UK leading to another lockdown!

The second lockdown really was a nail in the coffin of our project, and we decided to call it off.

However, the two scenes we did film still existed in my drive! And we had a nice time watching back at our attempts of rebooting the series and imagining what could've happened.

So, as a nice little extra before Doctor Who: Nexus is released in November, I've compiled the surviving unreleased footage into a scene, which will be available on the Doctor Who: Nexus YouTube channel at 3PM UK Time on the 23rd of August!

We class this 'pilot' episode as part of the 'Old Videos' timeline, which still matters in regards to Nexus, but you'll have to wait and see why!

Thank you so much for reading, please feel free to read another post, or subscribe to stay up to date with our fan-film project! Good night!

Production Diary: 1.1 - Doctor Who: Nexus - Episode 1

 Hi! It's Jack here, again!

One day we'll find the time to get the actual Doctor here writing a blogpost, but until then, I'm here to annoy you for a bit! :-)

Beware, though, this diary contains SPOILERS! 

Our episode production schedule isn't really date-orientated, as a fan-film it's entirely just when we can, if we can, basis.

Because I really always enjoy making things, whether that's computer programs or TV remotes or Fan Films, I always like keeping a diary of making them to look back on! :-)

Our production schedule goes by the least difficult to most difficult basis. When I was in the writing stages of our special episode, it was intended to be a cheesy one-off continuation of the fan films we made as kids, and later so many ideas flooded my mind that it would be MAD and, frankly, disastrous to condense them all into one 20 minute episode!

Of course, we are on a £0 budget, meaning we can't afford to make big sets or get anything done - it's so lucky that Tom's grandad is incredibly skilled and built the TARDIS console and Police Box for him, Keith is one of the greatest, skilled and cleverest blokes I've ever met!

I thought that if I wanted to expand the episodes into three instalments, I would have to be conscious of the limitations, and so we decided that episode two would be entirely filmed and set in the TARDIS! With only one actor, playing both the Doctor and the villain! 

We filmed this episode in just a day, in a couple hours really, as we both had somewhere to be around 16:00, so we got to work and completed it quickly!

We filmed it on a Google Pixel 6 (mine, can't afford cameras - am a uni student and looking for a new job!) using the OpenCamera software, available on F-Droid created by Mark Harman, which allowed us to modify the Aspect Ratio we were filming in to 2:1.

Naturally, I added a wider aspect ratio because I wanted to add the visibility of Tom's- I mean, The Doctor's TARDIS in most of the shots, so that it would give the fans a good view of what the console is capable of! 

Plus, the enormously monstrous height of it, connecting the floor with the ground, it's so astonishing to see in person!

Of course, Tom got a bit annoyed at me because my OCD was turning all of the switches off and ensuring the TARDIS wouldn't go drifting off to Metabelis three, or Skaro again, actually.

Tom and I thought it'd be cool to derive our own versions from the recorded source footage, to see the two takes on the same episode from our creative viewpoints! Mine being uploaded on the Doctor Who: Nexus channel, no later than Tom's, which will be uploaded on his!

We both went independent in editing the episode, as we wanted there to be a difference in our cuts of the episode, which could either mean we just have different VFX of the TARDIS landing in Albania, or the entire script could seem indistinguishable! We'll have to wait and see each other's episodes!

Here's where things get a little complicated!

The antagonist is being played by Tom, just as he is The Doctor too! You'd assume that re-using actors would mean he would have to stand in one part of the room, and then cut - and then another part, which would have been exhausting! We would be mad to do that, and potentially lead to a production error breaking the 180 degree rule.

Instead, we filmed the antagonist's shots in the first stage, with me (Jack) reading out the lines for Tom to copy, and then in the second stage we filmed The Doctor's responses to the antagonist. Then, it took around 30-60 minutes while drunk, I found the parts, with the script visible on one half of the screen, clipping the two videos and synchronising the dialogue!

Of course, it's the first time for us filming a proper episode now knowing what we know, but I didn't really know what I was doing - apart from the guiding from the app, which was showing a frame to ensure The Doctor was in the center and the TARDIS console visible on the right, but it was a lot of fun! A lot of bloopers. A lot of reminiscence!

While I can say for sure this episode, Episode 2, will be made publicly visible, we'll have to see where Episode 1 and 3 go, as I am due to move back to uni (90 miles away) in September, and work is hindering both of our efforts at making things work. But I'm sure, in time, we'll release something that we hope you'll enjoy!

If you want a teaser for this episode, I'll say this - Erasmus Darkening was a cool villain!

Episodes 1 & 3 are due to begin recording some point in August, and the series is intended for November 2024 release date, so I hope you'll stick with us on this journey!

Thank you for reading the production diary! If there's anything you'd like to see or anything you'd like to know - don't hesitate to let us know in the comments!

Have a great Saturday!

- Jack

Technical specifications for Doctor Who: Nexus - Episode 2

Filming Image Resolution: 2560x1280 (2:1)

Release Image Resolution: Original 2:1 version available in 1440p, and a trimmed 16:9 version will be available in 1080p.

Filming Software: Open Camera

Filming Technology: Google Pixel 6

Editing Software: Audacity, Kdenlive, GNU Image Processing

Teaser Trailer Released!

Out of sheer excitement, I trimmed down a few takes from the first of our episodes that we've filmed, and uploaded a teaser trailer to our shared YouTube channel!

While not much is revealed so far about the series, it gives a few glimpses into the TARDIS console room - The Doctor's first words "What do you want from me?" - and the Time Vortex we'll be using for our fan-film series!

While we've completed one episode so far, which is ironically Episode 2 of the series, the next episodes 1 and 3 are still in production, and the series shall be released later this year!

Feel free to check it out and tell us what you think! :)

Remember to subscribe to stay updated on the progress of the zero-budget series! :)

Filming Begins! | Doctor Who: Nexus

 

In 2014, we created our first Doctor Who Fan-Film (using iMovie, of course).

Between 2014 and 2020, we had created around 10 episodes. Some of them missing, deleted to free up iCloud space, etc.

In 2020, during the lockdown as we were self-isolating, a prequel Short Film was created! Regeneration (2020)

Later, we created a recreation of the missing episode Mission to the Unknown. (which, ironically, is now also missing)

In 2024, we created four comics based on an entirely different Fan-Film created by MB & Homeland. In which, our Tommy Doctor made a brief cameo!

All rights go to MB & Homeland as this comic was like an fan-made alternate continuation of their story :P

A fan-comic of a fan-film of a film of a fan of a film fan of a of a film fan fan fan...

And it got me thinking...

What was an integral part of me and Tommy's friendship throughout our childhood? What have we been missing for so many years?

A few months of fishing out archived ideas, about 15 drafts and re-writes to align with time and budget restrictions (£0)

And now, we have completed filming for our second episode of Doctor Who: Nexus!

We completed Episode 2 first as it was very convenient to film, the next two will be slightly trickier but we're doing it step-by-step. Hopefully released by November time.

We'll be identifying this series of episodes as Series 2, as we would like to keep the memories of our earlier episodes, and the Short Film, and the comics, as part of the lore if you will. I thought it would be fun not to discredit the old fun we had :)

I hope you'll stick with us as we complete this series, and I hope you find it entertaining! :)

Doctor Who: Nexus - The Timeline (26/06/24)

 Our timeline starts off a little confusing...

Here's the view of the multiverse, which has the (blue) Prime Timeline consisting of the BBC Doctor Who, which branches out into an infinite number of variations of fan fiction (white, yellow). I'm always hanging out in this fictional place to avoid normal basic human contact.

The weird orby stuff at the bottom is the Big Bang - an event that created the first timeline, and above it is the first timeline branching out into an infinite number of alternate timelines (universes)

Season One

In our Doctor Who: Fan-Comic Adventures Series, the malevolent gods known as the 'Ring of Exiles' destroy countless worlds in the multiverse, including The Nexus Doctor's universe.

The First Nexus Doctor regenerates into the Second Nexus Doctor, in our short film 'Regeneration (2020)'

The Nexus Doctor arrives in the universe featured in our Doctor Who: Fan-Comic Adventures series.

Season Two

Our Fan-Film series will continue the Nexus Doctor's adventures in this new, unknown universe.

I hope this provides a little bit of context!

- Jack Triad