Sunday, October 28, 2007
Day 03
I'd also like to gve a warm welcome to Farid. He jumped in at the last minute for Carl Homer who's wife has just had a baby ! Congratulations Carl and welcome aboard Farid. His first day invloved squashing himself in the cars boot to record sound. Thats dedication. Hopefully we'll have both Carl and Farid for the next days shoot.
As usual some lovely camera work by Neill Phillips who somehow manages to operate the camera and also takes stills - see the awesome shot above. Rain put paid to the car mount we were hoping to use but we still got the coverage.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Day Of The Undead
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Day 02 Pictures
Here's some production stills from Day 02 of Zombie Undead. Some awesome behind the stills shots from Dp Neill Phillips.
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Day 02
As we are shifting stuff inside find out that Alex + 1 have gone off to get some breakfast. Cant hang around so head on up. As Adrian, Conran Zombie, has to leave by 1 PM we need to shift to get his shots done.
First shot on the log was SARAH coming out of the room after she has woken up. A tough shot to light as we are 2 floors up and cant shine the lights through the windows. Apart from that a pretty standard shot and we were on to the first zombie shot of the film. Gav had spent the first 2 hours making up Conran Zombie and he looked goresome. With the first zombie shots in the bag its on to the zombie attack.
This is the first big SFX of Zombie Undead and involved a machete attack to the zombies head. Gav did numerous tests for this one and came up with the idea of using a polystyrene head with a whole cut out and stuffed with a blood filled condom. Put a wig over it all and smack, when the machete hits the 'head' gore flies everywhere. Only had a couple of chances at this one due to time and supplies. First one worked ok but the second nailed it. Trouble with the polystyrene is that the machete bounces, We'll cut sharp before the bounce and get a pick up close up of blood splatting Sarah's face. A tense shot as well as Ruth had to hold the head above herself as the machete ( a real one ) was smashed into the head. A pressure shot for all and every cast and crew member was lined up to watch this one.
With that nailed it was onto the start of the dialog between Jay and Sarah. We kept pretty much to schedule through the day, a couple of Douglas Adams deadlines went wishing past but we did catch up.
We shot listed and storyboarded for more than we shot. The reason for this is two fold. Firstly events may have transpired that forced us to shoot in a different order than planned. For example on the Zombie Undead trailer shoot one of our two make up artists failed to show. With no warning it was too late to find a replacement so Gav, our SFX lead, had to do all the make up plus special effects and scenes were shot out of planned order. Secondly we may have shot faster than expected - hey miracles happen. However this has to be countered by the fact that you don’t want people hanging around for scenes that wont be shot that day. It’s a tricky compromise and one which I hope will become easier as the shoot progresses. Time to check out the rushes.
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The Day Before
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Friday, October 5, 2007
Script Rehersals
The initial read throughs concentrated on the three leads - Jay,Sarah and Steve. Kris led the session with movement and action taking second stage to the cast finding their characters and seeing what works and what doesn't within that. We skipped over action scenes to concentrate on the words and their delivery. A big smile was never far off my face today as this great cast tweaked out some great aspects from a great script. It was great to see Barry's depiction of Steve with its restrained comedy delivery. The interaction between the cast was great to see with each bouncing off the others to create, even at this stage, a fluid dynamic.
We picked up some on errors such as Jay referring to Sarah by name even though they haven't been introduced. Previous to this we had trimmed and condensed plus combined and removed a superfluous character. Also a characters lines were increased as there role shined and benefitted from more lines.
Awesome work people!
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Frank Cast
In addition to acting Rod is a respected author. If you haven't checked out his work yet then what are you waiting for - The Riot Trilogy.
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