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[29 Mar 2006|04:28pm] |
I've rendered a DivX copy of the movie. It's pretty decent quality, and is 130mb. I'll be putting it up on rapidshare, filefront, and a few other sharing sites, so if anyone would like a copy of the movie they can view on their pc, leave me an email I can send the download link to in a comment. I'll be sending out links on Friday when I get back home!
Cheers!
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| *Blows the dust off.* |
[07 Mar 2006|12:08am] |
Hello!
HELLO!
Oh my God.
We're not dead. No sir.
Far from it.
I just didn't want to post every week saying "we're editing... and... it's dull... and... there's some monkies in here with rifles... but it's still dull." Not that there's anything really interesting to say now... I just wanted to get your attention for the forthcoming additions to the world of Zombie Force. Oh yes.
The *real* website is almost done, will be unveiled later this month, along with TWO new sketches, and a few new characters! I've kept myself busy scribbling down ideas for the feature length movie, and so far things are looking good. We may be filming later this year if all goes well!
Not much else really. Oh! I've edited the 30 minute preview film into sketches, as well as re-edited some spare footage to make a few new ones. We're also filming the two newbies later this month.
Watch this space...
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| SORRY!! |
[03 Oct 2005|03:11am] |
I suck...
I had to put a new master drive my PC, so I lost ALL the addresses for people that had requested the free ZF DVD...
Mail it to me again at jamie@purplemonkey.plus.com please!
I'll be sending them out early this week!
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| DVD Giveaway! |
[21 Sep 2005|01:03pm] |
People that want a copy of the film (word used loosely at this stage...) need to email a postal address to me at zombieforce@purplemonkey.plus.com
Allow... I dunno, two weeks for it to arrive!
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| Dusty! |
[20 Sep 2005|05:41pm] |
We ain't dead.
The website should be up and running in full by early October, with stills, interviews, trailers, news and all that shizzaz.
Anyone that would like a crappy looking blank DVD with the words "Zombie Force" scribbled on it, leave me a comment here.
(It also has the rough cut of the "first filming session / cheap as chips promo or pilot"... thing on it. Will just play in any region 2 dvd player!)
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| A real audience! Eeeek! |
[08 Jul 2005|12:50pm] |
The DVD premiere went well last night! Hurrah!
In the process of organising a showing at a local cinema now...
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[07 Jul 2005|12:33am] |
7pm tomorrow evening...
The studio...
We test screen the second... no... third cut of ZF on a real audience.
If you're in Scarborough, and would like access to this highly prestigious event, leave me a comment.
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| Screenies from the credits sequence... |
[01 Jul 2005|05:07pm] |
My brains are hurting. 10 days left to edits this thing, and work on Alice, and film some more!
Thanks to the rest of the team for sorting out the premiere, I would possibly explode if I had to work on that as well!
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| Day Off... |
[30 Jun 2005|01:27pm] |
I can't possibly sit here and edit anymore today... my eyes are going rusty.
Instead, go visit this site! It's a film created by Danny Sunley and Dean Harris. I went to Uni with Danny, and he's a top bloke who writes some of the most awesomely witty dialogue I've ever read. I think this is a feature length project, and by the looks of it, almost a year of work has gone into it!
Plus, they filmed in Yorkshire as well! Gotta support this new Yorkshire film industry! :D
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| I just got an email asking me this... |
[30 Jun 2005|02:00am] |
"Dude, what IS Zombie Force? I mean, is it a movie? Because if it is, the camera work is really weird, or rubbish. I can't decide."
Okay... here goes.
"Zombie Force" is a documentary filmed by award winning journalist Martin Rodgers (Rob Lupine) who once won an award for a documentary on leaf migration in Cambodia. He's working freelance for Channel Six these days.
Martin travels to Scarborough, where he rides shotgun with the Zombie Force, a crack team of ex TA soldiers that have formed into a skilled, and elite team of Zombie killing machines.
The piece is mainly dialogue based, with the occasionaly brief action sequence. But mainly it's about the talkie talkie. It's a low budget project, and we knew all too well that quite often films attempted to be shot professionally, yet with an amateur budget, can end up looking pretty bad, so we made the decision right from the start to shoot it freestyle, in the manner of a documentary! The actors are blocked as if in a stage show, and the camera operator dances through the action invisibly, catching the shot in one or two takes. This cuts done editing time and budgets, but applies far more pressure on the actors.
So to answer the question, yes, the project has been intentionally filmed this way. I believe it's 90% of the charm of the project. There are a million zombie movies out there, but this is the first zombie massacre documentary!
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| Actionolaioaoaoao! |
[30 Jun 2005|01:47am] |
Here's a really, really rushed cut of some scenes with a featured track over it.
It's low... low res. The final cut will be DVDabubbable of course, so don't think we're untalented hacks that filmed in our backyard on a wind up handycam!
Right click... save as...
It's probably the only footage I'll release on t'web until the actual trailer, and then the featurette itself, so enjoy!
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| Just Like The Word of Blod. |
[29 Jun 2005|11:30pm] |
Grinning from ear to ear, as the banner linking thing seems to be working. Push it upon unsuspecting folks!
The post is... here!! Post it in your LJ, and request your friends do so. If you find yourself near a zombie type community, post it in there!
Spread the good word, and that good word is brrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiinnssssss!!!
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| Braaaaaaaaaiinsssss... |
[29 Jun 2005|01:41pm] |
A banner thing for anyone that wants to promote Zombie Force in an LJ. For those not too internet savvy...
( The code... )
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| Shooting Zombies. |
[27 Jun 2005|02:15am] |
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The filming day went great! All the usual hiccups, many due to bad memories on some peoples behalfs, but in the end we got it done, and it looks good. We need to reshoot the first scene, as the winds coming in from the coast were MENTAL, and it sounds like a thunderstorm! Plus Rob's clothes are flapping all over, and the lighting sucks... No biggie though, I could reshoot it with me, Rob, and two crew members. Easy as pie!
Here's my day went...
8.20am - Collected Beth who plays Danni Kraymour from home, and then drove to get Rob Lupine who plays Martin Rodgers and Nathan Bottomley who plays Sampson from his flat. We drove to Sainsburys to collect two of the bullet proof vests we needed for costumes.
8.45am - At the studio laying out all the props and costumes we need for the day. There is a lot... and I mean A LOT of guns around. Things are glued onto things, and bullet proof vests are adapted in size to fit the variety of sizes we have!
9.30am - Drop Beth, Rob and Nathan off at the cafe for breakfast, and drive to the train station to collect Aidan McCarthy, the actor playing Horton. He's travelled up from London for the day because... well, frankly noone else could play the role he has. We head back to the cafe and upon the discovery that it's busier than a Turkish brothel during happy hour, we move to another one and indulge in breakfasts galore. I ring the owners of the generator we're borrowing for the day... no answer.
10am - Drive at speed to the home of the generator man, and secure the thing... drive back into town and onthe the foreshore to buy two more guns, and a hat for Aidan... back to...
10:50am - ...the studio! Costumes are put on, guns distributed, lighting packed up... everything goes into the back of my car, and we're away. The generator has arrived, as have Marie Greenley (make up) and Dan "Shepochu" Shepherdson (Tech hero...). We charge upto the first location of the day!
Midday...ish? - First shoot of the day! Rob has a monologue that introduces the film. The light is awful due to horrific weather. 100% cloud cover, a light explodes, and the wind is killing us. Old people with dogs make themselves known as often as possible. James Ellis (photoguy) arrives and he and several others take up positions halting pedestrians while we shoot. Craig Robson who plays Rollins appears! Then the generator dies and refuses to start! It rains! The wind gets bigger! We shoot the scene about fifteen times before cursing the weather, and packing up for the 2nd location.
1.40pm - Aidan is in the bath. Have you ever lit a man sat in a bath with a green gel while he's wearing an army hat and shades? I have. Rob, Aidan, and a load of equipment into a small bathroom are installed and we shoot the first interview scene. It gets better with each shot. Aidan tells me he has some alternative lines to the pissed Auntie monologue and I tell him to go for it. He does, but we forget to tell Rob... so when Aidan says stuff about an angry rotweiller eating your face and humping your leg, Rob almost collapses in confusion! We tell him... shoot both versions again and again until I get the shot I want, and wrap for lunch.
I had a sandwich.
3pm - An old abandoned shop on St. Thomas street! Allan Thorndyke who plays Timmons arrives!! We have under 2 hours in this location to shoot a pretty complicated scene invoving a member of the Squad turning into a zombie. Lot's of shuffling of the shop, trying angles... the lighting is proving tricky as the par56 blew, and we're running on one... the shop we bought the bulb from refuses to give us another one, as, and I quote... "you bought it scecond hand, you knew the risks." It blew up as soon as we turned it on!! P&L Lighting... for shame. We won't be using you again! Lot's of clambering for Craig, action movie entrances for Aidan, and violent "head-into-wall" action for Beth, and we're done...
5pm - We're on the top of Falsgrave park, and it's so sunny and hot! Hurrah! I scrap the lighting as the sun is kindly giving me all I need! Then... disaster! We've lost the tapes! All of them! Half an hour lost to driving at great speeds to find them. I shoot a small scene in which Beth beats the hell out of Nathan... beautifully. With each take she gets funnier. The actors are growing weary now, as am I. The generator dies it's last so I kick it, and put it away. Next comes the hardest scene... Five pages of dialogue and action, eight actors all in differant locations around the park... one shot. It's a tracking shot following the force with the camera running in an NYPD Blue style... so I just block it simply, then tell the guys to follow their instincts, which they do... beautifully! Then I block the second half of the shot... and we film it all. Three times... gets better, and then some woman destroys the best shot so far by yelling "incendiary!!" at Nathan... when the film goes up, you'll know why! The relationship between Allan and Aidan's characters is exactly as I wrote it! Nathan and Craig suffer various cuts and bruises from the stunts (stunts!! I loved it!!) and James takes Nathan down in such a variety of violent ways I almost drop the camera and run down to see if he's okay... Adam Sandler in Waterboy? Forget it... CRUNCH! We get two damn good shots, and we leave. Half of the cast / crew go home, the other half go...
8pm - Back at the studio shooting the last scene of the day. We set up lights, and shoot. It's a simple interview scene between Beth and Nathan. They nail it in three takes, and it becomes my favourite shot of the day. These guys have their characters down so well it's spooky. Great though! We decide that the interview scenes look so good, we should shoot some improv! Rob sits out of shot and asks questions to various members of the cast, and they respond in character. Some of the dialogue that emerged here was beauuuuutiful. Aidan created an entire backplot for the force, and explained the zombies appearance in Scarborough in what can only be described as one of the most surreal things I have EVER heard.
9pm - Wrap. Done. For the day. Two more scenes to shoot, and one to reshoot. We go to Nathan's, where some people get utterly smashed! I get home around 1am, and sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
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[22 Jun 2005|09:26pm] |
BRAAAAAAAAIINS!
The cry of the wild goes out.
We need AS MANY zombie extras at 4pm on Saturday as possible. Top of Falsgrave park for an hour! No money, alas... but the chance to legally run around calling for "brraaaaiinnnnnssss" for an hour.
Plus... it'll be fun!
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