Zombie Mockumentary blog

Title sequence for mockumentary

For the opening title sequence for the mockumentary we decided to use old stock footage from riots that have happen so the auidence would be able to see what it was like during the outbreak of the infection in the early days. This is the footage that Damian found and has used to make a short title sequence and i personally think it works really well and gives the auidence some more in depth images and scenes to think about.

Jack Chams 1st Shoot

Sunday 15th APRIL

Cast

Nathan- Zombie slave owner

Zombie Dancers- NO SHOW

Extras- Nick, Ryan, Martin, Vicky

Crew:
Rob - Director
Ricky - D.O.P/ 1st camera
Ross - Producer
Damian - 2nd camera
Stacey - Make up artist

This was are first shoot for the zombie mocumentary and it didnt go as we planned it. We thought the girls might have been running late so we gave it 30 minutes and they i got damian to try and get in contact with them, just after an hour had gone by we got a message saying that the girls had pulled out on friday but forgot to tell and on top of that none of the extras showed up, so we were all trying to get friends to come down anf fill in. After we found out that the girls werent coming i decided to we would shootthe interview scene and get that spot on so we didnt waste the day. Nathan the main actor in this scene was great, me and ross took him through the scene and told him what we wanted from the scene. We gave him free rain with the character and gave him a few points we wanted him to gt across and let him get from A

to B in his own way.

For this shoot i used a few prompts to get the most out of Nathan and for us to get our points across and they were

so do you think what you are doing here is illegal?

what do you think about the people protesting what you are doing?

how did you come about getting the girls?

so you bought them from there familys?

so do you plan on expanding the business?

what do you think about the civil rights law coming in?

2nd Jack Chams shoot

13th May

Cast:
Katie - Zombie dancer
Vicky - Zombie dancer
Paul - Punter
Brad - Punter
Alex - Punter
Nathan - Bar owner

Crew:
Rob - Director
Ricky - D.O.P/ 1st camera
Ross - Producer
Damian - 2nd camera
Stacey - Make up artist

This was our second shoot at Jack chams as in the first shoot we were let down by some of the dancers. For this shoot we had a few people reply to an add we put up in a few places, it was a male and a female and a few other extras from the first shoot. The people that replied to are add didnt turn up as it was a nice day and they had decided to go to the beach insyead and didnt tell us intil the monday after. We then had to start ringing around friends and putting things on facebook to try and get some more extras. Ross was able to get his girlfriend to come down and help us out by being a zombie dancer. We always seem to have problems with extras and actors when it came to shooting at Jack Chams which has put us about 2 weeks behind. From trying to get professional actors to help out in are production i have learnt that they dont always have the commitment levels that you do and next time i would try and get some funding to try to pay the actors so they would have more reason to show up. In the Jack Cham shoot we had to do a little DIY on the windows by putting up some cheap black curtains and tape them up on the windows so people werent able to look in and it made the bar look a bit more sleazy and creepy.
The prompts that we used for this scene were
Can you explain the kind of men that come to this place and dont you think that they are morally corrupt?
You have been openly criticize about the way you treat the girls, so what do you have to say about that?

This is a picture of kate on the stage dancing as a zombie
and ricky getting cut aways.

This is me talking to brad about what to do in this scene
and im also talking to damian about the shots i want.

This is kate and vicky on stage dancing for the gentlemen.

This is me talking to paul about whats going on in this scene
and stacey talking to nathan in the back ground.

Day 3 of Shoot:Selling a zombie scene

This is a scene in the mockumentary where we follow MR K(Nathan) going to buy a zombie from Grant who put an add in the paper. The zombie he is selling is his girlfriend because he cant deal with her not doing anything any more and them not being able to connect and with the money he is going to be buying a new xbox 360. This was a scene we came up for expand more on Nathans character so you can see how he gets zombies for his business. The shoot went really well even though it was short notice for the actors and Grant and Inga had never been filmed before, Grant was really good for this part as we had him in mind for this character. This scene was made a bit easier by Grant being my brother i was able to tell him how to play the scene perfectly and because of that fact i knew what i had to do to get the best out of him.

This is how we set up this interview with grant and his zombie girlfriend
behind him so you cam see what he is going through.

This is the scene in the mocumentary where we see the transaction happens.

This is the angle from the second camera where you able to see the
zombie, grant, mr k and ricky filming the scene.

Day 4 of the shoot: Hippy scene

Saturday 19th May

Cast
Lew - Hippy leader

Crew
Myself - director
Ricky - first camera
Ross - second camera
Damian - sound recorder

This was day 4 of the shoot and it was the easiest of the lot we arrived at voodoo lounge at just after 10pm and are actor turned up just after 10pm. We decided that this would be the best location for this characters interview this character was meant to the be the opposite of Mr K character. There were no major problems with this shoot apart from the noise coming from voodoo as it was louder than we expected because of this when we were using the sound equipment it only picked up Lews voice and not mine apart from that it was really good and are actor was really good and a friend of my family which is lucky because i had him in mind when i was writting the character briefs. Because of the sound I'm not to sure at the moment if we will be able to use this scene, but we will see if we can sort the sound levels out and be able to use it. For this shoot we had Damian doing the sound recording, Ricky as first camera and Ross was second camera because Lew is a good friend of mine it was easy to get the best out of him and it was easy for me to give him the basics of the scene and let him add some of his character to it.

This is what Voodoo looked like from the outside and this
was the back drop to our interview.

This is a picture of me speaking to Lew and going
through the scene with him.

This is a shoot of Ricky setting up the
camera and framing the shot.

This is how we were going to frame Lew but decided to frame it
in front on voodoo and the hundreds people.

This is the scene that we shoot with Lew outside of voodoo because of sound issues ross thought that it would be better off leaving this scene as i thought it needed to be in there as this character is the oppisite character to Mr K. As we came nearer the end of editing we decided that we needed this character and we were able to fit it in the mockumentary and with this scene we didnt have to change the title sequence.

Script test in college

This is us in college practicing a scene from our script with a few actors that Kev Johnson brought in, it was really good practice for us to do this and it gave me more experience working with actors that i dont know and gave myself some confidence directing people and show that i was able to get my points across to people that werent in the loop about what we were doing.

Make up

This is just a few pictures of Stacey are make up artist doing zombie make up on the Jack Chams scene and the scene were a zombie is being sold.

This is the start of stacey doing make up.

This is near the end of stacey doing the make up and it is looking really good, we had a little
bit of input about how the zombies should look for each scene and then stacey makes it happen.