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No one ever expects the mid-week Zombie blog…
I just spent Wednesday shooting second unit on some awesome effects shot at the Drunken Dragon. We had a skeleton crew, but got some great shots. It was just me, Erik, Marcel, Ashley, Adrienne and Gered. We were trying to get some scary shots of Zombie hands punching through the door, neck ripping and blood pumping action. We got a great shot of blood squirting right into the camera lens. I held up a piece … Read entire article »
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Third Weekend on The Book of Zombie
Welcome to week three! We started Friday putting our break-away doors to good use. We’re going to have some zombies punch their hands through and attack one of our lead characters. This was one of the coolest things I’ve seen yet. We ran two cameras on the whole scene. “A” camera was the 100A locked down and “B” camera was the XL2 on steadicam for close-ups. Very fun to … Read entire article »
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Zombie Makeover: Building a Better Zombie
Video Blog number 2. Watch Alex get transformed into a zombie. Don’t forget to click on the ad at the end of the video. Your clicks help us pay for this monstrosity… // digg_url = 'http://prestondave.blogspot.com/2007/06/zombie-makeover-building-better-zombie.html'; // ]]> The Book of Zombie Blog – Copyright 2009 DMZ Entertainment http://thebookofzombie.com … Read entire article »
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The Book of Zombie – 2nd Weekend
It’s Monday, and we’ve made it through our second weekend. I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s “shaky-cam” video. I’ll make more of those as time permits. We started on Friday with scene 26. Please excuse me if I don’t tell what scenes are about. I’m trying to keep this semi-spoiler-free. Erik did a guest directing spot here and did a great job. We have some awesome shots to work with. … Read entire article »
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Behind the Scenes Video #1 – Shaky-Cam
We just finished our second weekend of shooting “The Book of Zombie”. I’ll write about that tomorrow. I just bought a new hard drive to edit the movie on today and wanted to make a quick production video. My favorite shot that we did on Friday was the “shaky-cam”. It’s basically just a camera bolted to a piece of wood. I’ll tell you more about that later. For now, here’s the video: Don’t forget to click on … Read entire article »
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