Okay, I'm in a Filmmaking/Film Studies class at school, and we have an assignment to make a short film. The minimum is 10 minutes, but ours is estimated to be about 25. We haven't finished it yet, but we have made a trailer. The characters introduced in the trailer are The Director, The Actor (the one being chased by zombies), and some of the zombies. I did all the cutting and all the post-production stuff, and I was on set for all the shots, and advising the rest of the crew. All of the shots in the trailer were filmed at school, but not all of them will be in the final film.
Genre: Comedy/Horror Plot: An insane film director, that is determined to kill mankind. From the perspective of an actor who has been cast in one of the director's films.
My Roles:
Producer
Film Editor
Mr. Underhill*
Zombie Extra* *acting roles
Music used:
"Doom 3 Theme" by Tweaker*
"Vicarious" by Tool
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python
"Inception the Bleeding Skies" by Trivium (maybe) *Used in trailer
Feel free to tell me what you think, this is something that my mind has been consumed by for the last two months or so (even a film as short as this requires a lot of planning). We will hopefully finish up on this sometime within the next month or two. I have had a lot of fun making this, and I hope you guys have just as much fun watching it.
Note: Also, keep in mind that I am not the director of the movie, and every major move I make in the production of it is at the direction of the director (my best friend).
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NOO!!!11 NOT THE COORDLESS DRILL!!!1 I suggest a name change from "Welcome to Hollywood" to the parody of "Snakes on a Plane" called "Seven Kids and A Fence on a Hill"
I can see the tagline now...
Samuel L. Jackson wrote:I'm Tired of these Muthaf*ckin' kids and a Fence, On ma Muthaf*ckin' Hill!
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Yeah, we tried to find like a strange torture contraption, but that's the best we could find. And there's some pretty... painful stuff you could do with a cordless drill.
gh0570fchurch wrote:Yeah, we tried to find like a strange torture contraption, but that's the best we could find. And there's some pretty... painful stuff you could do with a cordless drill.
The intro could seriously use some tweaking... The text goes so damn slow it makes you wait for the next line... And the music sync isn't that good.. But other then that it looks pretty good so far..
Well, I wasn't so much worried about the music sync in the beginning, but I really did try to focus that the climax is right when the climax of the text comes up (when it says, "...The Director"), and the whole point of the text before that point is revealed.
Well, Shawn of the Dead is more of a horror with lots of comedy aspects. Ours is kind of vice versa, being funny and making fun of horror movies as a genre. We also have references to other movies such as The Matrix, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
it does need lots of work, and the zombies need to look like zombies, see if you can get someone for makeup. like, need to have patches of skin missing, blood all over them, like their throat and wrists were slit and they bled all over. also, take the red caps off the airsoft guns, and put dust in before you shoot them. at least then you can edit in sounds. and hope the dust you put in looks like gunsmoke. and make the zombies moan and stumble around.
i read a book of my cousin's about zombies and how they behave. they walk, and don't have good motor skills, although they cannot feel pain, so they often have open wounds, walk on broken bones, missing limbs, and use all of their muscles, so they are very strong. they are very unco-ordinated and have much trouble going up some stairs, so having victims go up is a good way to have them live. when zombies stumble upon food (usually a mammal) they exhale out of their lungs, usually making a moan-like sound, which also can attract other zombies.
they are caused when a virus infects you. spread by body fluids, like blood, ooze, etc. so if your bitten or scratched, there can be a good chance that your dead as you stand. the virus travels to the frontal lobe and slowly "kills" the victim within 12-24 hours. a few hours afterwhich, the virus controls the frontal lobe and "re-animates" the corpse. a zombie has no memory, so when you best friend gets infected, after he passes away, headshot. the only way to kill a zombie is to destroy the brain, keeping the virus from using it. otherwise, you waste ammo on their torso, or decapitate them and have a head to deal with.
they don't breathe, so they can travel across oceans, they also have an unquenchable thirst for flesh. they can even gorge until their stomachs burst and spill out their victim's flesh.
basically, headshots, blood and gore to the max, slow-moving, they fall down stairs 90% of the time they try to climb them, and they don't learn, and they're virtualy unstoppable. btw, sorry for the wall of text, but that's my vision of the perfect zombie.
ASPARTAME: in your diet soda and artificial sweeteners. also, it's obviously completely safe. it's not like it will cause tumors or anything. >.>
always remember: guilty until proven innocent
Well, I don't have the power to do all the things you are suggesting. I am just the producer after all. I can bring up to the director (who was the screaming person at the end). Also consider this is a student film, and we have virtually no budget.
you can still get a few halloween makeup kits or something from a local party store, ketchup or fake blood or something. and my wall of text was more to describe zombie behavior than to tell you to have em spilling body parts from their abdomens (although that would rock).
also, because it's a zombie movie, tons of blood and gore is necessary. i don't care how you do it, but there's got to be blood everywhere.
ASPARTAME: in your diet soda and artificial sweeteners. also, it's obviously completely safe. it's not like it will cause tumors or anything. >.>
always remember: guilty until proven innocent
And there's some pretty... painful stuff you could do with a cordless drill.
