Sunday, July 25, 2010

Epitaph: Bread and Salt Lighting Test

I went to the Apple store today (you know, where I convert my footage, LOL) and here's a few of my test shots for this area. I get attacked by an Estrie on the big street. Have a fight in the alley with an undead assassin and a whole bunch of other fun things that go on.

The irony is I went through all that trouble to convert these files (Which is why I hadn't uploaded them, I thought I had to convert them) and then I get ready to upload them and as I'm reading the list of accepted files low and behold M2t is right there. Remember RIF: Reading Is fundamental.

Either way I have the camera in 24p/1080p mode (the HG10 comes in only two modes 1080i and 24p, tell me this wasn't made for low budget filmmaking) and it's in shade mode I believe. Watch as I poorly narrate this walk through a northside neighborhood.

And at I some point in the vid I meet a guy on the street who asked to be put on camera, but what he had to say won't be shown for the sake of all in the watching/hearing of said video. Honestly, if it had been a woman, the vid could have become an instant HBO hooker doc, but I digress.
(Then again Zombie Girl seems to be quickly becoming a beloved character, so maybe a zombie hooker doc?). But yea, so take some time and check out the footage. I hope you like it. I'll be posting more soon.
You'd be surprized what happens when you walk down the street with a camera. When we had the DVX all the women thought we were with Girls Gone Wild, yet there was no evidence of such save me having a video camera. (I actually used that DVX to talk my way onto the "ER" set once. LOL).

We are considering ways to add extra light to these scenes if needed, but I really like the creepy look in some place, specifically the shopping center and some of the alleys. But here's the "footy"...


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Epitaph: Bread and Salt Film: New Victor Locke Costume

I've put together the second "Victor Locke" costume for the upcoming "Epitaph: Bread and Salt" film. The outfit consist of a dark blue trench coat, black hoodie and black pants and is based on the cover for "Epitaph: Beginning of the End" comic. It's the second costume, the first being based on a cover for the upcoming "Victor Locke: Demon Hunter" series.

At this time props including a vampire handbo, several vampire guns said to shoot a special kind of silver bullet, a fighting stake and various holsters and sidearms to keep Chicago citizens safe from Estrie and other vampires.

I have been designing the props myself and still have a ways to go. None of the blades have been filed down yet for screen use and I'm still mapping out what I want some of the special effects to look like in my head. There will also be special appearances that I'm going add back into the script including Fixmaster, Damious and maybe Patrika. So far the main characters from the first comics consist of Nightevil, Ashen, Zombie Girl Rebecca and  Locke himself.  Characters that have not been seen in the comics yet consist of Dr. Tanner of Frank Stein Institute, Siren and the Defenders of Eden (aside from Rebecca).