Rendezvous with Rama - Vancouver Film School (VFS) 

This book should be made into an entire movie starting with this. This would be the perfect Fresh bit of Sci fi movie that is needed in Hollywood these days. We sci fi geeks are drowning in rehash, reboots and remakes. We need an Aurthur C. Clarke movie. WE NEED RAMA!!!

Denis Villeneuve will be doing Rendezvous with Rama!!! The perfect man for the job… Awesome work on Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, Dune This man is accumulating excellent work on some of sci-fi’s best projects…👍🏻❤️😁

Hi Folks, Thanks for all the kind comments. This was my final project for my year in the Vancouver Film School Sound Design program. The amazing visuals were produced by Aaron Ross in New York in 2001, and he was kind enough to give me permission to use his film. It was an absolute blast recording, editing, scoring and mixing this film, and VFS taught me everything I needed to know in order to get it just right. I'm honoured to be on the official VFS channel! Phil Mahoney Vancouver

Been waiting since the 70's for someone to make a movie....

I read the book for the first time in the summer of 1975. I've lost track of how many times I've read it since. An incredible story. This short film is amazing. I just hope that the movie gets made AND it continues to reflect the standards shown and set here. Thank you, Aaron Ross.

This is how the book starts. Awesome presentation, almost like seeing the written words come alive. Nice job.

Really great visualization of a great story. I hear Morgan Freeman has had the rights for years and it's a dream of his to make the movie. Hold out hope fans!

Amazing job guys!! I can't believe that there is not a movie about rama... the scene where Norton drops the flare in the center of the ship at 2:53... WHOA... makes my skin creeps with excitement! JUST LIKE THE BOOK... morgan freeman we need your voice here!

There should have been 3 doors, The ramans do everything in three ;). But a very good project, very professional. I hope freeman and fincher do continue with the real movie project.

Well done, gotta love the concept! A.C.Clarke you rock buddy r.i.p.

This is visually stunning, even if the CGI is just a bit dated. I would watch a full version for sure.

I love this! Of all of Arthur C Clarke's books, this was the most mysterious and wonderful. I did not like the continuation of the story, the books that he did with another guy (forgotten his name) This is a most wonderful visualisation of inside Rama! And I love the music. In my college long, long ago I made myself an immersible world of memories with a most clunky piece of software called Infini-D! Now of course studios use Maiya to render the most amazing 3D and graphic worlds. But this piece is, for me, perfect. Thank you Aaron Ross. I keep it on my desktop forever!

I hope they make a tv series of rama one day. I loved the books

Now we'll finally get a movie!

That brings back some memories! When I read this in the 70's, I never imagined I'd be sitting here and watching it unfold on my monitor! That was awesome!!!

Hope you get to work on the upcoming Denis Villeneuve film adaptation!

The sounds were great, very convincing. The visuals also delivered the story extremely well. This is great; make a short film! (Or even a full length movie!)

Great video. If a movie doesn't come of this I'd love a six-part series on Netflix. Budgets for TV shows are pretty decent these days, providing the special effects are dealt with properly.

It's just as I imagined it when I read it. Hope we get a full length adaptation one day

This was almost exactly as I pictured it in my mind, when I read the book. I hope to see this made into a full length movie.

I first read Rendezvous with Rama while spending a year at high-school in Coquitlam, BC. Thank you for the video.

That. Was. Awesome! This really needs to be made into a movie.

I've just finished another reading of the book that I have had in my collection for forty-seven years. It s clearly not the same book that you read when you made this video.

I hadn't read the book in years but this is almost exactly as I remembered. Great job!

For anyone that hasn't heard, the same guy that directed the latest Dune is working on a movie for this book. Can't wait.

Fantastic! Loved the book and to say this does it justice is a huge understatement. Bravo!

This is absolutely amazing. This is the movie that played in my head when I first read (then reread) the book. YOU need to be involved in the full-scale making of this movie.

I didn't notice the last time I watched this that they changed the story a bit. Aimed at Earth, emitting a signal but overall still amazingly done.

"We reached the ...FRONT DOOR" rofll

Wait.. no- in the book they didn't know what it was, it emitted no signal, they thought it was just a large asteroid.

Brilliant !! This is pretty much how I pictured the trailer for the actual movie being ... amazing work guys

That is mind-blowing. My deepest respect to the creators of this.

Clarke was a genius..he wrote this way ahead of his time..i would say atleast 50 70 year ahead.. i also think despite everything we still lack the technical advancements to make a movie...still a long way to go..

Excellent reproduction of what my Imagination saw as I read the book. Good Job..

Another one I'd like to see made into a movie or endless TV series... even in animation... is Ringworld. Hell that has all the potential to be a TV series running none stop for decades based on the size of Ringworld. One adventure after the other to the literal end of time and then they could turn around and go back the other way. Hell it would take years DECADES just to cross it sideways even on flycycles much less go all the way around. #LarryNiven -> #MakeItSo

I am a very green Sci-Fic reader. This story by Mr Arthur Clark was exceptional wonderful. The story could be in silent as space atmosphere just intro the background then Rama cames, human visit and observe, Frightened, Rama leaving. ??!! What a masterpiece.

I read the novel many years ago. A very enjoyable and thoughtful story. Well done with this video!

AMAZINGGGGG... the most interesting and enticing story so far.... well done....

Excellent sound with visual. See you soon.

Exactly how i imagined it ! Awesome thanks!

I've been wanting, waiting and expecting someone ANYONE to make a full length feature movie out of this book and its sequels since I first read this book DECADES and DECADES and still more DECADES ago and NO ONE has taken up this project. I'm not able or capable of doing so myself or I would have long ago done so. So... what the HELL is the problem? This as a movie series would be as popular or even more popular for their precious RATINGS than Star Trek and Star Wars. I'm now 70 years old and I'm afraid I will die of old age before SOMEONE ANYONE takes this project on. C'mon producers, Directors, Actors, #MovieMakers #MakeItSo and soon! I'm not getting any younger!

Nice, well done!

Please don't get me wrong, this is great work. Wonderful CGI. It's just a pity that in the details, it's not very close to the book - just a few examples: There was no "signal" broadcast; there were THREE entries, and each was actually THREE sequential cylinders ("The Ramans do everything in threes") that each rotated 90 degrees to allow access to the next; the thrust on The Endeavours would have been pointing in the other direction, towards Rama, not away, as it *slowed* *down* to approach Rama; and there was no (rotationally-created or otherwise) artificial gravity on The Endeavor. But I know full-well that I am nit-picking and a purist. Regardless, this is very impressive CGI work.

Congratulations for the good work!

Bravo, a great short film for a great book

Very cool. Loved the series, read them all as a young man and 50 yrs later I still remember the characters and story and also, it was the series that made me realize incredible Arthur C. Clarke really was.

WOW!!!!!!! I read that Netflix is funding this. Filming now 11/22/21

Just finished reading the novel. Good job on the adaptation :)

My favorite sci fi book and book series ever and i hope that if someday theres a movie out of these novels you guys will make it. You captured perfectly the mystery and awe of the begining of the story. I want more !

Beautiful visualization of Arthur C. Clarke's concept!

Off to a good start! This book needs to be made into an epic movie, that's true to the book in every detail.

*sigh* I've been waiting for this movie since high school. You did an amazing job.

just..WOW. If they make a full length film, I will most certainly watch.

I want more. Don't leave me hanging from the cliff, especially since this is probably all there will be of Rendezvous with Rama

Amazing, alien technology and they instantly know where to get in and how to open the door.

This won't be a movie one day it will be a documentary.

As I remember, Rama was the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer.

One of my favorite stories, but it's actually a pretty simple story. I'm all for a live action movie but I have my doubts that it can be pulled off. I think Hollywood is burning so looking outside of that dumpster would have the best chance. The main danger if they screw it up is that a lot of classic sci-fi stories that are being considered for movies would probably be abandoned immediately and probably wouldn't get another chance for a couple generations. In reading the book the imagination of the reader does most of the heavy lifting, expertly guided by the writing. CGI is what would make or break a movie adapt. It absolutely must be the most epic, on the widest screen, and with the most perfect score. It's got to convey that Grand Canyon feeling that makes you forget to breathe for a second. I love this story but I'm also hopeful for all the other classics that might be green lit if Rama does well.

I read this novel eons ago. Too bad I did not see the "spider bots". I imagined Rama as an ovoid. This rendition is way cooler.

Fantastic! gripping...

Oumuamua

This is really well done. Nice work.

Very professional. Well done

Amazing. This video has been defined.

Nice! One my Clarke favorites!

Nice work. I remember getting it out of the library and trying to wrap my head around something so massive and which widened the scale of the universe into something way bigger than Trek. The sequels trashed that idea.

BEAUTIFUL...... OH GOSH I WAS THINKING THIS BOOK DESERVES A MOVIE. Nowadays we have technical capabilities to reproduce that universe...... Or a TV show, if you will, so no details are left behind

Loved the 4-book series!

Brilliant!!

There are some problems with this footage. In the book everything was done in 3's. Three locks per door, three doors before getting inside etc.

This would be a multi million dollar winner,,,,bigger than Star Wars,not to mention the spin off movies ,,loved the books read them twice

gj aaron. i'd have to say though that there's no gravity on rama's axis.. :)

GREAT WORK👍! MORGAN FREEMAN has wanted to produce this for years but can't get financing..David Fincher was attached to Direct (Seven, Fight Club, Social Network) but it fell apart unfortunately.

I WISH! This man could make the whole movie

Fine artwork! I'd say this novel 'Rendezvous with Rama' is 'inhabited', by something malignant. Blessings +

BEYOND AWESOME !!! EPIC !!! :D Aaron Rose the actor from gossip girl?!?! ROFL!

top marks, great plot, and effects

1st book: 5stars 2nd book: a peace of shizzle!!! why wont steven spielburg make this into an actual movie?

Beautiful video much better and professional than it could be expected from a student. I'm pretty sure about that you will get kudos soon and go very far in the visual multimedia designing ;) Anyway, the book is also fascinating too except the conception of the 'artificial gravitation' made by rotating of Rama. (according to the first law of motion due to Newton none of bodies could be took effect of g-force in a rotating cylinder unless it's affixed to the inner surface strongly)

This is a great series of books. I hope it is made into a series of movies

Before i die,would love to see the movie.Someday.

God, what and awesome line!

OMG. Watching this got me stoked for a movie

Gracias a este vídeo pude visualizar mejor lo que estaba leyendo P.D un buen librazo.

I have long wished this series to be made into feature films. One science issue in this presentation is the claim our satellites first noticed Rama several light years away when it emitted a signal. Aside from a signal typically would be moving at the speed of light, the issue of it being at that distance would mean a very lengthy time before arrival. Unless it was moving faster than the speed of light, or close to the speed of light, one would expect a minimum of hundreds of years before arrival. I would have to go back to the book to see, but wasn’t it first noticed as it was entering our solar system?

Delighted that someone did this. After that meteor Omuamua , almost seems prophetic

Very good guys you need to do a kickstarter for a full length feature. Morgan Freeman really wants there to be a Rendezvous‘s with Rama movie made.

There should be no gravity where that man is.

Nice! More of that...!

Nice work Philly....

I need more!! I NEED!! I NEED!!!

Coming soon..... hopefully!!!

that would make an absolutely amazing movie. VFS should fund this to be a movie.

Those are the spacesuits from Red Planet! Well, at least they covered the name patch.

I really wish Rendezvous With Rama was made into a movie.

Fantastic!

It makes no sense, this book needs a film adaptation NOW.

Well done !

I know this is old, but someone has to make a continuation of this. It's a book I have read quite a few times.

Did you read this book or just the cliff notes?