Ok – back on track with another days filming tentatively penned for the 16th. Having to shift some scenes around to compensate for some scheduling difficulties but its all good stuff. Need to schedule a day in december for the pick ups we need from last days shoot as well.

Had to post this, an in-camera still of the footage shot on Sunday. This guy had little make up on but in his position and movement looked great. What a freaky zombie. Awesome!

Intriguing site i stumbled upon the other day can be found here. A fellow blogger this diaries a bloke who , for 1 year, is watching one zombie movie a day. Now that’s dedication.

All around the world, zombies are gathering – in certain places at certain times. Crawl of the Dead documents all the zombie walks planned in the upcoming months. An email has alerted me to the Blackpool Zombie Walk which is on World Zombie Day – so register and join in!

A nice feature on the site is the Google Earth powered Worldwide Zombie Walk Outlook and Worldwide Zombie Locator.

A printer which prints onto DVD’s is something I’ve been after for a while after an entry Chris Jones’s blog prompted me on the necessity of such an item. First impressions really do count and any DVD of your work sent out needs to look professional. As Chris said at the very least it needs to have contact details.

A trail of the internet later and i found a bargain on ebay. Search for :

Canon Pixma iP4300 Photo Inkjet Printer – BRAND NEW
Seller is Clearance Bargains who are Argos’ returns, old stock etc. Its a great printer and i got mine for £30 plus £5 ish for postage. Prints on to DVD’s and also has built in duplex facility.

Well worth a visit is this site – NOTLD Reanimated. “Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film and recreating them through their own artistic aesthetics. This is opened to all media and processes both still and dynamic. Works will be assembled into a new video track thus giving the film new life through a process called ‘reanimation’. Submissions will be accepted until 9/12/08″.

Check it out.

info@zombieundead.com

A great venture i joined a while ago is Lost Zombies. The site is a repository for a community generated zombie documentary. You take videos, pictures etc then post as if zombies were real. Worth checking out as is there new trailer here. Short and sweet – nice one.

A site definitely worth checking out is British Film Magazine. This is shaping up to be something special and deserves a big hit count. British Film Magazine covers shorts, features in pre, post and release, interviews, news, training course details and more. As a British film maker its great to see a site like this and we wish Terence Doyle all the best.

Spent the last couple of weeks sorting out my application for the Zone Horror competition – hence the quietness of the blog front. Had to tweak the film to get under the 2 minute mark which was a cool experience. Dave Sinclair offered his services for streaming the edit from Premiere Pro CS3 to DVCAM a necessity as the competition requires this format and our FX1’s don’t have this facility. Took us a while to sort this out as we didn’t RTFM. Seems like a good competition and a pretty awesome chance to get your film noticed

The short film version of Zombie Undead is in competition at Revenant Film Festival. Sounds like an awesome day.

“Spend the night with the dead as the walking dead convene upon the Northwest for the 2008 Revenant Film Festival! The Revenant Film Festival was founded in 2007 by the creators of Revenant Magazine. The festival was established to showcase the talents and filmworks of independent directors the world over who are crafting original zombie films that exemplify the independent spirit of film making.”

Check out the magazine site here.