Tuesday, January 22, 2008

New Website Launched

Cool new look website launched. After weeks of hard work from Matt, from a goresome original design by Lee Milmore, the site is up and running again. Some great concept art by Kit Cox (more on him later) is on show as are the first behind the scenes production stills. Keep checking for regular updates on the progress of Zombie Undead.

Monday, January 21, 2008

White Room Productions

Met today with Jack Everard of White Room Productions. WRP are a Leicester based start up company who create mobile phone based games, band videos, short films and more. Jack, Jamie and John will be working in partnership with Dark Waters Entertainment to help secure funding and push Zombie Undead in the marketplace.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Funding Proposal Advancing

Spent the last week working on the proposal. After a first draft I emailed it to Rod Duncan, Frank, who cast his expert eye over it. As mentioned before Rod is not only an actor but an author and he also proofreads. He suggested some amendments and the document progressed from there.

After I was happy with the document it was time to export. What I wanted was the proposal in PDF format.
Portable Document Format (PDF) is the standard for the secure and reliable distribution of files which is platform independent therefore a great choice for distributing to as many people as possible. However I found out that Publisher cannot save to PDF - you need to buy a plug-in. Ah the joys of computing. So i went on the hunt and found Cute PDF Writer - a freeware program. After installation open
the file that you would like to print to PDF in any program - Word, Publisher etc. Select the Print option and select "CutePDF Writer" from the list of available printers to print. Select the destination directory and filename for your output file. Job Done. Now why couldn't Microsoft have done this ?

While this was a few hours wasted its also given me the incentive to find any software that can do the same as publisher but with pdf export and which is free. Lets see what i can find.

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Funding Proposal

As we are now in Stage 2 of the film, accessing completion funding, its time to create a Funding Proposal. This needs to be as professional a document as possible which conveys the project as a viable proposition. Potential funders need to see the quality of work we have produced and the vision we have. We need to be clear that it is not an investment opportunity but that those who contribute would receive a credit on the film, a copy on DVD and the kudos from being involved in such a high quality film.

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Saturday, January 5, 2008

Sickness And Christmas

Ah the joys of Christmas. The Zombie Undead team took a week off for festivities which became a longer period away from the film due to a nasty sickness bug that swept through what seemed like the whole of the UK. Still we're back now and raring to go. The first of our CGI effects tutorials is being worked on as we speak. Also we're looking at accessing completion funding - trying both the standard ways plus more outside the box concepts. Lets see what we can make 2008 bring!

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