SCRIPT RE-DRAFT!!!!

That script re-draft is finally done and ready for your viewing pleasure! The reason for this re-draft is because me and James changed so much while filming so I thought it would be best to post a re-draft to save confusion. So here it is:

Update - Final Project - The Lowest Majority

Just a very brief up date here. Our movie is nearly finished in the editing phase, with only one or two things left to do and should almost definitley be finished in time for the deadline. All that's left to do is place the music, which is to be composed by our very own James Burton and to film the shots with the newsreports on the television. So that's basically all thats left. James has placed credits and titles into the film and thanks to Mr Earl we now have the Lionsgate distrubution logo sequence at the beggining of our movie, also James has tweaked the lighting and sound on the film, making it look and sound better, and has also added some effect to make the movie look more visiually appealing. So there you go just a very brief update on what's going on, also I will have the re written script up shortly so stay tuned for that. x

KNOW YOUR ZOMBIES!!! Episiode 1 - Return of the Living Dead

Know Your Zombies!

When it comes to zombies most people picture the stereotype of rotten corpses, slow walkers, who constantly slur the words “BRAINS!” and only eat that one thing which they desperately crave. However I am here to tell you those zombies come in the form of a multiple different styles. Throughout the history of this disturbing creature, film makers, video game developers and what have you, have given us multiple versions of the zombie. You may not notice however as same styles are used reputedly by film makers, but there are multiple different versions created by those film makers who maybe wanted to give them a fresh new look or for the basic principle it makes them more terrifying. Either way there many different styles and I’m here to run you through the different ones in this segment called Know Your Zombies! So let’s dive straight into the first case…

The Zombies from Return of the Living Dead

 

If there is one zombie that quite possibly reigns supreme, it will most likely be the ones in this movie or the ones from Peter Jacksons Brain Dead, but will get to those ones later. Return of the Living Dead is a film directed by Dan O’Bannon with the story written by Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo and Russell Streiner, Russo also worked on The Night of the Living Dead with George Romero, a film considered to be the first proper zombie movie. The plot follows workers at the Uneeda medical supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, Frank one of the workers their tries to impress a new employee by showing him a military experiment that went wrong that was accidentally send to the warehouse several years ago, Frank the accidentally releases toxic gas from the tank a swell the corpse, which sets of a chain reaction of events that leads to all the corpses in a nearby cemetery come to life, leading to a few survivors to take refuge in a crematorium, with the graveyard just out it’s front door. The zombie’s they face appear very typical at first, just wanting to eat brains and of course repeating that chant, but as the film goes on you see how smart they really are! For start they can actually talk and muster up sentences, fro example after the zombies have mutilated a team of paramedics one zombie gets on to the radio and asks for more to arrive. These zombies are also incredibly quick and agile with some moving like normal people, just watch the scene in the film when the other team of paramedics show up and they get swarmed by zombies, running and jumping all over them, it’s crazy. But the thing that makes them so threatening is that they are unstoppable and CANNOT be killed! So what you have here is an army of unstoppable creatures, who want what’s in your head and will stop at nothing to gain it!  Add to that that they are virtually indestructible and quick buggers, then you have the recipe for one of the ultimate form of zombie ever created. I won’t tell you how the movie ends but I highly recommend you check it out, even if it’s just to see how it does end, because it is pretty ridiculous and over the top but still great fun J Hope you enjoyed this and stay tuned for more.   

Update - Final Project - The Lowest Majority

I'am happy to report that our final project, The Lowest Majority, is nearly finished. James has been working furiously on the editing front, and has smoothed out alot of the errors and problems that were in our film. Of cource some errors are almost impossible to remove with a re-shoot taking place, but giving we filmed in the winter and it's now spring, there will be an even worse continuity error, as when we shot the footage the ground was frosty and the only way we could achieve that now is if we got up incredibly early and hope the light is the same and their is the same ammount of frost on the ground. But none the less James has smoothed out the editing really well and even managed to solve the problem of what could be coincidered a major continuity error! During a scene where Oliver is being chased by Ellen, Martin and William, the crews bags and possesions can be picked up in teh scene as they run passed, but James just rearranged the picture and zoomed it in slightly, cutting out the bags and possesions. Their is one things we believe that needs sorting out and that is the beginning of the film. The idea for the opening is the news broadcasts in a darkened room with the TV being the only source of light and use multiple different camera angles, all focused on the TV. All we need is that shot but for now we have a back up in place, where James took an image from the internet and pasted the news footage we shot over it, and used clever light techniques to make the room darker in the picture. However you can't change the angles on it being it's only a picture, and can only zoom in and out on it, so we really need to get the proper opening shot and stuck on. And one more thing regarding editing, James is adding credits tp the piece and they are looking pretty awesome aswel, so we have high hopes that people will like this x

Final Project - Credit List

Director – Greg Wilson

Assistant Director – James Burton

Producers – Greg Wilson and James Burton

Camera Operator – James Burton

Written by – Greg Wilson

Story Board – Greg Wilson

Editing – James Burton

Cast – Greg Wilson

Oliver Clarkson

Ellen Bradshaw

Martin Haynes

Craig Mullen

James Corker

Lewis Hobson

William Cawley

Update - Final Project - The Lowest Majority

We have returned back from the week off,and thanks to our teacher, all editing problems and software poroblems have been pretty much sorted. We are running the files under a different format, a standard DV format, and are all rendered and ready to be pieced together. Once we have pieced it altogether we are going to look over it and see if there is anything that needs to be re-filmed or corrected or fixed, but so far there doesnt appear to be anything major. After that we need to film a short few seconds, to make the opening of the film complete, using the news footage we shot all the way back at the start of the year. Then, once that is done, all it needs is for James to compose the score to give the film it's edge and we need to create the opening credit sequence for it.

Update - The Missing Blog - The Lowest Majority - Final Project

After scanning over my last few blog entries, I realised that one of my previous entries isn’t there. I’m guessing Blogger pulled off its usual trick of losing entries as soon as you post them claiming there was a problem, I guess I just didn’t realise if this was the case. So here is what the missing entry was about. Basically we spent an entire Saturday at the end of January filming our entire project. After our first attempt at filming was foiled by light and actors arriving late and other interruptions, we just decided to film the entire thing in one long session that lasted about 3-4 hours. We started completely from scratch with a whole load of our actors and a couple of new ones, and just started again. We went to the same sight as before but we discovered this brilliant little woodland bit next to the cycle track which worked really well for what we could do. So on the day we made numerous changes to what we initially had written in the script but we feel that it made the movie a lot better and easier to pull off, so expect a newly written script with all the changes in shortly. I’d just like to thanks all of our actors: our zombies – William, Ellen,  and Martin who got all covered in make up, blood and mud, you guys were awesome! Also Oliver for kneeling in the cold wet mud for about 20 minutes till we got the shoots we needed, you were awesome too, despite complaining the whole time! And finally I’d like to thank my Outlaws – James, Craig and Lewis, especially Lewis as he showed up to work with a hangover and still managed to smash some zombie heads! So that’s basically what the missing blog was about, everything went pretty much smoothly and we are happy with all the changes and expect that re-written script soon :) x