Revenant Film Festival update

Revenant Film Magazine have a news post re Zombie Undead :

"British director Rhys Davies has been in production on a new self-funded feature length zombie film entitled 'Zombie Undead'. So far the production has about 25 minutes of footage. I've seen about 5 minutes of the short film version of Zombie Undead and it was absolutely brilliant. Amazing cinematography and high-level special effects really make this film stand out. "

Goresome stuff indeed.

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Nice write up on the progress of the film in local paper The Leicester Mercury. Awesome picture as well ;-).

Leicester Mercury Article

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Zone Horror

Spent the last couple of weeks sorting out my application for the Zone Horror competition - hence the quietness of the blog front. Had to tweak the film to get under the 2 minute mark which was a cool experience. Dave Sinclair offered his services for streaming the edit from Premiere Pro CS3 to DVCAM a necessity as the competition requires this format and our FX1's don't have this facility. Took us a while to sort this out as we didn't RTFM. Seems like a good competition and a pretty awe4some chance to get your film noticed.

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ZU Short Revenant Film Festival

The short film version of Zombie Undead is in competition at Revenant Film Festival. Sounds like an awesome day.

"Spend the night with the dead as the walking dead convene upon the Northwest for the 2008 Revenant Film Festival! The Revenant Film Festival was founded in 2007 by the creators of Revenant Magazine. The festival was established to showcase the talents and filmworks of independent directors the world over who are crafting original zombie films that exemplify the independent spirit of film making."

Check out the magazine site here.

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Day 08

All done and dusted by 3.30 - sweet. Great days filming. Had a dolly, circular tracks and Steadicam. David Sinclair joined for his first day. Thanks to Sarah, his daughter, and everyone else. Going to be fun editing this as the camera was tracking back and forth. Lets see what happens...

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The Day Before

The madness of Day 08 approached and have to admit I'm feeling a bit apprehensive about this one. Its a tough one to shoot and a pivotal scene in the film. Also our usual sound guy, Carl, is unable to be with us - which just adds another bit of pressure. Still we can take it ......

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Day 08 Preperation

All systems go for 6th July. Big thanks to Mambia, again, for arranging use of DMU. Its gonna be an awesome day with a big scene with 6 characters. This is a pivotal scene in the film where these characters decide whether they are going to stay or leave the evacuation centre. It'll be a great scene to film. We're taking a high risk strategy by using steady cam and/or circular tracks ( by kind permission on DMU ) to revolve around the cast who will be in a group. Dave and Neill will bounce back and forth to get random movement to match the indecision of the characters. Getting a character on screen while talking is not a priority, in fact avoiding this will work well with the camera catching up as a character speaks. Its the kind of scene that will either look awesome or pants. Lets see!

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