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Behind the Scenes from Zombie Walk 2010
This is the behind the scenes video for The Book of Zombie that I made for the Red, White and Dead Zombie walk in Seattle. It premiered after the world record setting zombie walk to thousands of zombie fans. Watch the whole video below and see lead actor, Brian Ibsen along with Scott Kragelund, Marcel Banks and Erik Van Sant talk about making the movie. Of course I’ve also added some scenes from the film … Read entire article »
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More Gunfire for The Book of Zombie
As we’ve gotten closer to finishing the final edit of The Book of Zombie, we decided that we need a close-up of an old double barrel shotgun firing. Yesterday, Adam and I set out to create the shot without using any bullets or blanks. The gun was rigged with a small amount of black powder in one of the barrels. We set it off with model rocket igniters wired to a custom-made battery pack. We … Read entire article »
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FIRE
Massive Explosion Originally uploaded by PrestonDave The Book of Zombie crew got the band back together this weekend to shoot some fireballs for visual effects. We shot late into the night in Scott’s backyard with Bob’s new HVX200 camera. The fireballs look amazing in HD, super slow motion! We used powdered coffee creamer, black powder and gun powder. (Don’t try this at home) I’ll post some behind the scenes video … Read entire article »
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Weekend Four: The Book of Zombie just won’t DIE
Friday: I arrived on set at 2pm. We started the day shooting some pick-ups of a scene that we did on the first weekend. This scene takes place right after the heroes barricade the bar and the zombie horde tries to break in. Shots were needed of the door and barricade shaking as the zombies try to get in. Paul was put outside to shake the door on cue. I got slow zooms, dolly … Read entire article »
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Exploding Head
Here’s the behind the scenes video of Team Zombie exploding a fake head with a shotgun. Marcel did an amazing job building the head. It’s stuffed with condoms filled with blood and applesauce. Adam built a wooden pedestal to put the head on and Scott fired the gun. We shot with both the 100A and the XL2. Check out the slo-mo replay of take two. If you watch closely, … Read entire article »
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