BEHIND THE SCENES BOOK
DIRECTOR COMMENT: PATRICK L. DONNELLY

I can't wait to share the hilarious, horrible and entertaining stories of how Producer Kevin Schroeder and I filmed The Alien Report. I was going to buy a used truck for $30,000 but decided to kick-start my directing career and spend that money filming The Alien Report.

I based THE ALIEN REPORT 100% on what alien abductees describe. I didn’t have to make things up, rather, it was a unique challenge getting details as close as possible to what ‘real’ alien abductees describe when they have their UFO encounters

The Alien Report was filmed on an iPhone and a GoPro to create a 'selfie-video' look similar to what we see on Tik Tok and Instagram. The goal was to make a modern UFO movie that brings the viewer right into the alien encounter scenes creating an ‘in-your-face” UFO experience from the POV of tiny little hidden cameras.

Using a non-traditional style of visual effects and careful use of background plates mixed with real locations, THE ALIEN REPORT looks and feels hyper-realistic. We did not rely on the traditional CGI 3-D facial mapping process used by Hollywood, which sometimes makes the primary VFX characters ‘feel’ computer generated. We put great effort into our aliens and locations.

BEHIND THE SCENES of The Alien Report is entertaining and informative. If you enjoyed the movie, I'll walk you through a bunch of the scenes and share my favorite stories about each. The Book is done, it's being proofed, then uploaded to Amazon in May 2024.