Anyone want to discuss/share their own zed flicks?

[kentweirdo]

...This ain't no jumpin'-off point for me to share one of my own, because I ain't gots one in the can. Got a yewteewb account, nothin' a'consequence.

But seriously, no, I don't have my own zombie film, nor do I have any solid plans to film one anytime soon.

I haven't logged-in in many blue moons, and the first thing on me ol' gulliver is who here has produced or is currently working on their own homemade zombie project? Or, if it so happens that you have had some involvement with larger productions, that'd be neat to hear about, as well.

I have a great amount of admiration for the barest-bones independent filmmakers out there, folks who take what little they have, but they take care with it and adapt their visions, just like George did.

I'm not talking about a bunch of 12 year olds shooting eachother in the backyard with NERF rifles, camera at one angle for twelve minutes until the little bastards call a time-out and run up to turn it off. Limp Bizkit booming out a shitty stereo that was placed next to the camera. They put it on YouTube. It gets 98 views over the course of two years.

I'm talking about folks who took the time out of their lives to get together (the hardest part), get their camcorders/whatever charged and ready and filmed their shots, read their lines, cut it together- you know, they made a movie!

Bear with me, because I am wasted right now, but I'm a roll...

We all remember that Reese Eveneshen guy from Canada? He made a zombie film of considerable length with a pretty good-sized cast back in his high school days. Was it professional? Nah, not really. Does that matter? Sometimes, I guess, yeah. But you can tell that everyone involved put their best into it, and didn't just half-ass their way through.

Same goes for his own version of Night of the Living Dead. He even had a few theatrical presentations in Canada.

So, if any of you have any zombie films from the past, or have present or future plans for one, give us details, like plot, actors, budget, possible online material like trailers, posters, what-have-you.

There should be a seperate topic on the main page for independent filmmaking projects, and not only zombies or horror.

[mirai]

i've worked on a few, as a script writer, make up artist, SFX guy, the occaisonal zombie and more but i've worked with some right egotistical people and a lot of people i'll never work with again but i do have some stories to tell but thats for another time

[UndeadNed]

Welcome back Kent.

So, if any of you have any zombie films from the past, or have present or future plans for one, give us details, like plot, actors, budget, possible online material like trailers, posters, what-have-you.

Don't know if it really counts, but about a year ago I had been planning to make a couple of zombie animated films, using "The Movies" video game. It taught me the importance of actually storyboarding your ideas first instead of just trying to leap into it and making it up as you go along, or else you spend too long on each individual scene messing around with props not really knowing how you'll edit it later on.

I've seen some decent movies made using that program and the good thing about such a program is you don't have to individually animate the characters since all the scenes are preprogrammed; however, that can also be its worst feature sometimes since it tends to make all of those movies look the same, but the ability to change the camera angle and a little creative editing and cuts can make it look different. Someday I'd like to try again with my movie ideas, but for the time being they're just pipe dreams



Plot
Hadn't really thought of a name for it, but it was supposed to be old classified footage of a zombie attack on a remote Military outpost, spliced with some voice over work as though a G-Man/senior military official was giving a briefing on the footage.
I was a little embarassed about speaking too loudly where other people in the house could hear me though so unfortunately the V.O work was a little too quiet.

Actors: Myself doing voicework ;D

Budget: $55 (the price of the game and the add-on) Plus I wasted $10 buying a microphone which wasn't very effective. I probably would've needed another $20-40 for a reasonable Microphone for the voicework on my laptop. Also I had planned to include some photoshopped pics to complement the movie and I would've needed photoshop another $100-200 (Not sure of the price of Photoshop circa 2008. I could've pirated it but I don't trust Limewire). So at best I would've had to spend $165, at worst around $300 just for my pissy little movie.

Wow I only just realised how much I could've wasted on that movie (good thing I only sunk in about $65 to the whole thing). Its amazing how quickly costs on a movie can escalate.

Online Material: The plan was to just post it to youtube, no advertising except to maybe post it on some of the forums I visit.

I had another idea using the same program that was going to be a bit of ripoff of 28 Days later; but I made the mistake of basing my movie idea around the animated frames available instead of trying to fit my ideas into the available frames. So that project went nowhere really.

There should be a seperate topic on the main page for independent filmmaking projects, and not only zombies or horror.

We do have the General Movies board to accommodate those flicks and all other non-zombie/horror movies, but I'll discuss it with the other mods to see if it warrants a new board.

[The Dead Walk!]

Dec 13, 2009 20:22:17 GMT -5 UndeadNed said:

Also I had planned to include some photoshopped pics to complement the movie and I would've needed photoshop another $100-200 (Not sure of the price of Photoshop circa 2008. I could've pirated it but I don't trust Limewire).

Non-student version of Photoshop costs $700. Just wanted to let ya know, haha.

[UndeadNed]

$700!?!!


Hey Tony just out of curiosity do you use a tablet with Photoshop or do you just use a mouse, when you're making your creations?

[The Dead Walk!]

Just a mouse. Sometimes not even that... often I just use my trackpad on my mac pro.

[UndeadNed]

I see. I was tempted to get an apple/Mac Laptop myself, but I was worried about the lack of compatability with my computer at work as well as the other computers at my place.

[The Dead Walk!]

I've had absolutely zero compatibility issues with my Mac, and I own a PC and have used PC's at school before. There's a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to Apple products, they're actually incredibly easy to use, etc.