Onerous

Onerous is a short action film created by Prof Publications and released on Christmas Eve, 2017. It is the first film in the Onerous Series, and the first live action project by Prof Publications. The run time is 3:46.

Plot
We see a figure from Team Crimson running from 2 pursuing hostile fighter jets. After escaping, he takes shelter under a tree where he drinks from an almost empty water bottle and marks his location on a map. He then sets back off where he is tracked down by Team Cerulean and other hostiles. After a short gunfight, the Crimson and Cerulean find themselves in hand to hand combat, the latter being victorious as he kills the Crimson. Only then is it revealed that the whole film's events took place inside of a video game as we meet Aidan Landon and Dominic Dummkopf, who are sitting on the couch at Dominic's House as Aidan puts down his controller and walks away.

Cast

 * Jay Schwarz as Aidan Landon
 * Dom Garcia as Dominic Dummkopf

Soundtrack

 * "Footrace" by Jay Schwarz
 * "Up Hill" by Jay Schwarz
 * "Beeline" by Jay Schwarz
 * "The Wasteland" by Ross Bugden

Trivia

 * The film Onerous was originally meant to have no sequels and act as a standalone story.
 * Ryan Connolly of Film Riot fame has tweeted about his liking of the film.
 * Onerous was created to serve as an editing test for Prof's next project, Rogue Sentinel.
 * This is the first Onerous film to have Dominic say his signature catchphrase, "You Fool!"
 * As the film was made before the idea of creating player based Teams, the Team Cerulean patch is a modified flag of Washington, D.C. and the Crimson patch is a modified version of the logo of the GOP, the original idea of the game's lore being a second American civil war.
 * The events of the match take place in Latimer County, Oklahoma.
 * In the original script, Dominic was meant to at one point throw one of his now signature throwing knives. However, the props were lost and the idea had to be scrapped.
 * All of the audio heard in the film was foley up until the dialogue scene at the end.
 * At the end of the film, Aidan and Dominic can be seen sitting inside of a trailer. The scene was later retconned in Part II to have taken place inside of Dominic's house.