Day of the Zombie - Final Week

     This weekend was heavily focused on Day of the Zombie. A majority of the filming was done (and finished) this weekend, and I had to spend today editing it all up into our preview/trailer hybrid. On Friday afternoon we tried to get everyone together, but complications involving my ride to our filming location came up and ended up with nothing getting done and what was recorded being trashed. The next day we got ourselves together and got everything we needed recorded done that day. I ended up playing a zombie myself, when we got someone who works with cameras more often than myself. Overall Saturday ended up being a lot of fun in spite of it being "work." My main job of this project was today. I spent a majority of my time today splicing, pasting, merging, deleting, and rendering. Exciting, right? Well I personally think so. I've included a picture of what I worked with to put all of our clips and audio together (I apologize for it being reversed).

 It's a program called "Sony Vegas Studio 9." Normally I would use Camtasia Studio 8 but my desktop computer had to be sent off, resulting in me using my Dad's computer. I even had to render it out 3 times, but only for the bettering of our final project. This weekend was fun and work filled, and I'm confident with what my rag-tag group has ended up with.

Day of the Zombie - Weeks 9-11

In making up for the 3 weeks I've forgotten to blog:
     In the past weeks my group has gotten much accomplished. Our script has been finished and touched up to the best we can make it (out of what we have), We're currently looking for a replacement for my old part (Cole). Reason for this being that due to me having moved to Alabama from Georgia I visit home on the holidays and it conflicts with out filming schedule. Extras were contacted and and replied to, while Bailey has tested out the makeup for the zombies and it works out quite well. Our presentation given before Thanksgiving break went well and I did my part to explain the editing process. For editing, I will need to take the clips filmed and load them into my software I use (Camtasia Studio 8/SOny Vegas 9) and put it together, add transitions (maybe filters), score, and Alissa's prologue. The update presentation seemed enjoyable for the audience and I think it was well received.

Day of the Zombie - Week 8

     On Friday my group had some dysfunctional issues. I think we all had been annoyed with each other from filming, writing, and who was doing what work. It started off with us all writing the script; at some point or another we all ended up off topic. Eventually, we decided to split up into smaller groups: Heidi and I doing story boarding, and Bailey and Alissa finishing the script. We had to get serious and discuss when we could get together and have our zombie extras there too. No plans were made, although we discussed what we had planned for the next two or three weekends. It seems as if our film won't be finished. All of us have things we are obligated to do like spending time with family or commitments to grades or friends.

Day of the Zombie - Week 7

     We gained access to the black box today and it helped exponentially with figuring out shots,  how we'll express our characters in scenes. A zombie sign up sheet was put up in the hallway outside of Mr. Trione's classroom for extas. We decided to not let anyone in our Leadership class be an extra, as we don't want anyone to let out spoilers. Later we all gathered at Bailey's and started rehearsing (like, legitimately. I'm serious.) Today we were only able to film a scene or two outside due to the rain. Consequently we did most of our scenes that take place inside or close to the house.

Day of the Zombie - Week 6

     Today, we began to rehearse in class. Not only that, but I have begun a story board using our script/outline. Edits to our script are being made including an opening monologue, changed opening scene, and an epilogue. We all brought in money to help pay for the cost for makeup and FX. We plan to begin filming either this weekend or the next.

Day of the Zombie - Week 5

     No progress made other than finishing up the script and discussing costs. Filming has been planned to start.

Day of the Zombie - Week 4

     Continuing our work on the script today, we made some progress. We are substantially behind on our schedule for Day of the Zombie and decided it was time to get it together. Developments were made throughout the day on our characters and their individual relationships with each other. Plot elements like loss of loved ones (to drive another character) and suspense have been created in our script as we went along. We discussed wether we should or should not include the idea that Cole and Brittany are together in the film. We thought about removing it because including that will make the story too involved for a short film. Thinking of how scenes went the script is being molded and changed as we go becoming a better film with more elements of film making. Scheduling when we can get together and work on the script (not at school) became a problem, because me and  Alissa have plans for the next two weekends.