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| Subject: a little UPDATE on DEADLANDS... | Date: Thu 23-Feb-2006, 08:20:35 | |  |
It has been a while since I last updated anyone on my project so I thought I would fill you guys in with what is going on.
With winter rapidly coming to an end and warmer temperatures arriving we will will resume shooting. I spent a good portion of the winter months editing and tweaking shot footage and I have a working edit in progress on my PC at home. The film will cover a timeline of 3 months, with 7/8th of the film taking place within a 17 hour time span.
March 10th we resume shooting and the first night we have 15 set ups to do and only 6 hours to do it in. With most of the major filmming out of the way (traffic jam and some zombie attacks) we can concentrate on the more dramatic moments of the story. We do have a few more zombie attacks to film, but it won't be Romero style zombie gore until near the end of the film.
Don't let all the talk of drama fool you, I am going for a more action driven zombie flick with some human zombie combat. However the more I film the more the flick gets better.
Since I have been editing I have noticed a major change in my style of directing. For those that have seen the 7 min short version will be surprised to see the change in look. Since getting Thomas Fant as my DP the look of the story as lighting goes is much better, but it does make a challenge in editing because the previous DP didn't do a lot of lighting, nor did we use as powerful a camera as we are now.
Here is list of cameras used on the project.
Panasonic DVX100
Canon GL1
Sony VX 2000 and 2100
Canon Opturas
5 different cameras so you will see five different looks. It may be a bit distracting at times, but now that I know what the hell I am doing I can concentrate on making it better.
For those looking to film a project. I highly recommend shooting interlaced and using a program like Magic bullet to acheive the final film look. I initially shot in frame mode, then my first DP told me to use Interlaced then use the 2-3-3-2 pulldown in Vegas to acheive the film look... well it didn't work and it still looked very video to me. Now with Magic bullet and the No.85 or EPIC setting I have acheived exactly what i wanted and I will finish the project in Interlaced. However to let you know if you shoot frame mode and interlaced it will be very hard to match footage in post.
We expect to have a full completed edit by August 2006. I am going to submit the longer version to some film festivals and I am also going to submit the project to the MPAA for rating. We are aiming for an NC-17. If accepted to the film festivals it should be making it s world premiere in October 2006 (Fingers crossed).
The running time is something still up in the air. All though we are aiming for 90 minutes it is looking like 60-70 minutes will be the final running time, but ya never know until the final edit is complete.
One last thing I am need is someone who is good at digital compositing. Anyone who thinks they can do this, or anytime of WMV/QT animation please PM. I need someone to animate the production company logo.
Anyway, thats it for now. I will keep you guys posted more once we get closer to finishing. |
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