Showing posts with label zombie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zombie. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Trailer 2
Here's another tailer for the film. I used the original NOTLD trailer as audio. It's rough on purpose.
Friday, 7 September 2007
ANIMOSITY off-line
Well, if you started reading my blog from the beginning, you'd know that one of the zombie films has been available for viewing at the "ON THE LOT" website. That's right I entered it into the TV during the second round of submissions. If you haven't seen it yet, you're too late. Within weeks of the show wrapping up the powers at FOX decided to shut down the website. Now this isn't a great loss to the show features etc, but they did develop a large community of film-makers and enthusiasts who used the forums and posted video to exchange ideas. What sucks is that FOX was fostering this in the early days, but once the show turned out to be a ratings bomb, POOF no more website, you're out of luck film-makers.
Now I don't exactly mourn this passing. From day one I found the website clunky and difficult to navigate. There were too many you-tubers posting films as well (but that's alright, since there were a lot of higher quality films too). I do feel that FOX did a horrific job with all things connected to the show and this is the spit in the face to all those people who bolstered and rallied behind it and the website.
And on that note. Animosity will not be going up on youtube or divShare anytime soon. If you want to see it, you’ll need to get to a screening. Any that it has will be posted up here, and I’ll be working on a DVD.
Thursday, 19 July 2007
8 1/2 Shorts: The Trailer
Alright. Here we go, finally. A trailer for the zombie film!
This is actually based on one of the shorts in the film, but it's been shortened and changed. It's pretty much set-up. An for those who don't know about "Hinterland Who's Who" (I've changed the spelling), it was a series of PSA's about our northern wildlife here in Canada. It originally ran in the 70's.
Let me know what you think.
This is actually based on one of the shorts in the film, but it's been shortened and changed. It's pretty much set-up. An for those who don't know about "Hinterland Who's Who" (I've changed the spelling), it was a series of PSA's about our northern wildlife here in Canada. It originally ran in the 70's.
Let me know what you think.
Sunday, 18 March 2007
INTRODUCTIONS
Welcome to my blog, “8 1/2 Short Films about Zombies”. This blog is about filmmaking, and more specific, making zombie films. I’m at about 5 1/2 short films about zombies currently, with another 3 charted out and a radio play script in development. I’m not obsessed with zombies, but I am with these films. They are my bastard children, which is the only thing a zombie film could be. Don’t cha think?
I need to start out with an explanation of just what 8 1/2 Short Films About Zombies is, or at least the original intention. They are for me experiments in style, and practice filmmaking. They were always intended to be my film school. And they started back in 1999.
I was living in Edmonton, Alberta, working as freelance shooter (mostly in TV) and just hanging out. A group of friends, the Zombie Collective, shot a zombie spoof on VHS tape called Blood Red Canada Dead. It was a, try to guess now, collection of short films about zombies. I got asked to edit the thing. It was a fun venture.
Some of the material in BRCD really attracted me. I was also at a stage in my life that I was moving away from art house film and back to grindhouse and drive-in films. When I was a kid King Kong and Frankenstein were the impedious of my fascination with movies. I wanted to play around with a monster film and here was some great stuff that I could work with. And zombies really hadn’t been done at that point (That was eight years ago remember).
I’ve always been a fan of zombie films, but never very hard core. Now I’ve acquired quite a taste for them, preferring the seventies era European films, with a special affection for the 40’s White Zombie and of course Romero’s ghouls.
So I sat down with Rob and Jay and we charted out a zombie film in 3 acts, comprised of short films with characters that overlapped. We had a basic structure, and only really wrote the shorts as we came up to shooting them. It’s a hell of a way to build a railroad. Start with a strong script kiddies. Since 1999 we’ve shot 5 1/2 films. They’ve been rough-cut for years, but now I’ve made the push to finalize them a do something with these films.
So this brings us back to the blog. It’s a chronicle of what I’m up to with the zombie films, and maybe I’ll get some input from readers. We haven’t spent a lot of money on these films, but we have spent a bit. I’d like to get them seen, and in some ways I need to exorcize them so I can move on.
The blog won’t just be me rambling along. Over time I’ll include some first looks and insight into this rambling, crawling zombie thing.
So the first look; I entered the Steven Spielberg/ Mark Burnett Production On The Lot. Looks like they’ve made their choices and I’m out. But here’s a link to an earlier zombie film, Awakenings. Love some feedback! Thanks.
http://films.thelot.com/films/20832
I need to start out with an explanation of just what 8 1/2 Short Films About Zombies is, or at least the original intention. They are for me experiments in style, and practice filmmaking. They were always intended to be my film school. And they started back in 1999.
I was living in Edmonton, Alberta, working as freelance shooter (mostly in TV) and just hanging out. A group of friends, the Zombie Collective, shot a zombie spoof on VHS tape called Blood Red Canada Dead. It was a, try to guess now, collection of short films about zombies. I got asked to edit the thing. It was a fun venture.
Some of the material in BRCD really attracted me. I was also at a stage in my life that I was moving away from art house film and back to grindhouse and drive-in films. When I was a kid King Kong and Frankenstein were the impedious of my fascination with movies. I wanted to play around with a monster film and here was some great stuff that I could work with. And zombies really hadn’t been done at that point (That was eight years ago remember).
I’ve always been a fan of zombie films, but never very hard core. Now I’ve acquired quite a taste for them, preferring the seventies era European films, with a special affection for the 40’s White Zombie and of course Romero’s ghouls.
So I sat down with Rob and Jay and we charted out a zombie film in 3 acts, comprised of short films with characters that overlapped. We had a basic structure, and only really wrote the shorts as we came up to shooting them. It’s a hell of a way to build a railroad. Start with a strong script kiddies. Since 1999 we’ve shot 5 1/2 films. They’ve been rough-cut for years, but now I’ve made the push to finalize them a do something with these films.
So this brings us back to the blog. It’s a chronicle of what I’m up to with the zombie films, and maybe I’ll get some input from readers. We haven’t spent a lot of money on these films, but we have spent a bit. I’d like to get them seen, and in some ways I need to exorcize them so I can move on.
The blog won’t just be me rambling along. Over time I’ll include some first looks and insight into this rambling, crawling zombie thing.
So the first look; I entered the Steven Spielberg/ Mark Burnett Production On The Lot. Looks like they’ve made their choices and I’m out. But here’s a link to an earlier zombie film, Awakenings. Love some feedback! Thanks.
http://films.thelot.com/films/20832
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