When I decided to tackle writing and directing Salvage Mission 9, my first feature film, I approached the project by producing a short film proof-of-concept first. The result is Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One, a sci-fi short film where a lone salvager fights for survival against an enemy he can’t see in a post-apocalyptic junkyard.
Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One premiered at 2018’s Film Invasion L.A.
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Broken down mechs and robots in the junkyard.](https://i0.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_mechs.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton exhausted.](https://i1.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-exhausted.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. The monitor mounted to the wall of Quinton's box.](https://i1.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_monitor.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton listens, with rifle.](https://i0.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-listens.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. A map of the junkyard.](https://i1.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_map.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton prepared, with rifle.](https://i2.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-prepared.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton in bad shape.](https://i1.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-red-room.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton, seen from the enemy's point of view.](https://i1.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-enemy-pov.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton treks with the RPK light machine gun.](https://i2.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-treks.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton looks at the tablet](https://i2.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_tablet.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Quinton fires the RPK light machine gun.](https://i2.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_quinton-fires.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)
![From the sci-fi short film Fringe Territory: Salvage Mission One. Stephen DeLorme credit.](https://i0.wp.com/d.elor.me/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fringe-territory-sci-fi-short-film-visual-effects-motion-graphics_stephen-delorme.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1)