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Week 16 – Zombies Invade Puyallup
Saturday The weather reports were dire. A monsoon was predicted to hit Puyallup the exact moment we were to begin shooting and then last all night. We went ahead with the shoot anyway and defied all odds to a glorious success. Only mild sprinkles fell, the zombies were happy (as happy as zombies can be) , only one car was seriously damaged. The scene that we were working on was David and Jenny’s exit … Read entire article »
Filed under: The Book of Zombie
9th Weekend
We started shooting at Linderman’s today! The first shot was the low angle shot of David and Jenny walking into the store looking for Harry. I had to get low to the floor to avoid seeing my reflection in the door. The most fun shot of the night was a dolly shot of the couple walking down the aisle. The wheelchair was totally worth it! The third shot is a view from behind the monitor … 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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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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